Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance. Ingrid Bergman played a notorious woman who comes back to New Orleans and falls for a Texas gambler, portrayed by Gary Cooper. In 1875, Clio Dulaine, the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole man and a very light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace... in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines. Years ago Clio's mother accidentally killed Dulaine when he tried to prevent her from committing suicide, and the scandalized Dulaines then exiled Clio and her mother to Paris. Clio is accompanied by her Haitian maid, Angelique, and her dwarf manservant, Cupidon. After fixing up the rundown house in Rampart Street, Clio ventures out, hoping to encounter the Dulaines, now consisting of her father's widow, her mother, and her daughter and Clio's half-sister, Charlotte Thérèse.
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| Release date: | November 21, 1945 |
| Directed by: | Sam Wood |
| Runtime: | 135 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis, Jack Warner |
| Music by: | William Lava, Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Haller |
| Screenplay by: | Edna Ferber |
| Estimated budget: | $1,750,000 |