Winter Meeting
Winter Meeting is a 1948 American drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Bette Davis and Jim Davis. The screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone (under the pseudonym Ethel Vance), was written by Catherine Turney.
Plot
Disenchanted poet Susan Grieve, escorted by her friend Stacy Grant, meets embittered World War II naval hero Lieutenant Slick Novak at a Manhattan restaurant where a dinner party is being held in his honor. He is more interested in Susan than his blind date Peggy Markham and offers to take her home at the end of the evening. The two become better acquainted over coffee in Susan's apartment, and she initially resists but then succumbs to his charms when he tries to kiss her.
More details
author | Catherine Turney |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Bretaigne Windust |
editor | Owen Marks |
genre | drama |
keywords | blind date clergy country house dinner party end estrange even hospital insanity manhattan priest suicide survive world war ii |
musicBy | Max Steiner |
producer | Henry Blanke |
publisher | Warner Bros. |