Saratoga Trunk Overview:

Saratoga Trunk (1945) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Sam Wood and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner.

Academy Awards 1946 --- Ceremony Number 19 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Supporting ActressFlora RobsonNominated
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SARATOGA TRUNK

By Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 1, 2021 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

A couple of days ago, Ingrid Bergman was given her own day as part of "Summer Under The Stars" month on Turner Classic Movies. This gave me the opportunity to watch a movie starring Bergman I had never seen before--SARATOGA TRUNK, a Warner Bros. film made in 1943, but not released until 1945. SARATO... Read full article


Saratoga Trunk (1945).

By Dawn Sample on Aug 30, 2012 From Noir and Chick Flicks

Saratoga Trunk (1945). Written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance. The illegitimate daughter Clio Dulaine,... Read full article


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Colonel Clint Maroon: Look, I got a temper too - stronger than horseradish.


Sophie Bellop: Here's your ring. Hang onto your jewelry. I always say it's a woman's best friend.


Clio Dulaine: If you mean to harm me, she'll be likely to kill you. She'll make a little figure like you out of soap and she'd stick little pinns into it, and you'd sicken and die.
Sophie Bellop: Not me. I've had pins stuck in me all my life and knives and everything up to pickaxes.


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Facts about

Jack L. Warner purchased the rights to the novel with the hopes to star Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. But scheduling conflicts with both performers caused them to turn down the project.
For the climactic train wreck scene, director Sam Wood used two complete trains, including 2 locomotives and 12 cars. Six cameras were used to film the scene where the trains meet in a head-on collision.
The word "Trunk" refers to a branch railroad line - a 'trunk' line - in this case, to Binghamton, New York on the Delaware and Hudson.
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