The list has 250 titles and is still growing. The films we're presenting this season have been nominated for consideration, and we welcome your input by asking you to vote at the screenings and suggest films you think are worthy of inclusion.
Within the season you will also find several "miniseries," including a Rudolph Valentino career retrospective, a set of Warner Bros. releases "torn from today's headlines," a look at singers who've made the leap to the big screen, and a fascinating overview of the varying film perceptions of Native Americans during the silent era.
Tuesday, February 2 (7:00 pm)
Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount, 1944). Director/Writer: Preston Sturges. Camera: John Seitz. Cast: Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Ella Raines, Franklin Pangborn. (101 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Thursday, February 4 (7:00 pm) Warner Bros. and the "Social Conscience" Film
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros., 1937). Director: Mervyn Le Roy. Writers: Robert Rossen and Aben Kandel from the novel by Ward Greene. Camera: Arthur Edeson and Warren Lynch. Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Lana Turner. (95 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Mike Mashon.
Friday, February 5 (6:30 pm) Singers
Funny Girl (Columbia, 1968). Director: William Wyler. Writer: Isobel Lennart. Camera: Harry Stradling. Songs: Jule Styne and Bob Merrill. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel. (151 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Columbia).
Tuesday, February 9 (7:00 pm)
The Nutty Professor (Paramount, 1963). Director: Jerry Lewis. Writers: Jerry Lewis and Bill Richmond. Camera: W. Wallace Kelly. Cast: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Howard Morris. (107 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Thursday, February 11 (7:00 pm)
Run Silent, Run Deep (United Artists, 1958). Director: Robert Wise. Writer: John Gay. Camera: Russell Harlan. Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles. (93 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Friday, February 12 (7:00 pm)
The Thin Blue Line (Miramax, 1988). Director/Writer: Errol Morris. Camera: Stefan Czapsky. Music: Philip Glass. Cast: Randall Adams, David Harris, Adam Goldfine. (101 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Miramax).
Tuesday, February 16 (7:00 pm)
Broken Arrow (20th Century-Fox, 1950). Director: Delmer Davies. Writer: Michael Blankfort from the novel by Elliott Arnold. Camera: Ernest Palmer. Cast: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Will Geer. (93 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
Thursday, February 18 (6:30 pm) Valentino
The Sheik (Famous Players-Lasky, 1921). Director: George Melford. Writer: Monte M. Katterjohn, based on the novel by Edith M. Hull. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Long. (100 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
preceded by
The Eyes of Youth -- Excerpt (Garson Productions, 1919). Director: Albert Parker. Writer: Albert Parker, based on the play by Max Marcin and Charles Guernon. Cast: Clara Kimball Young, Gareth Hughes, Pauline Starke, Sam Sothern, Rudolfo Valentino. (ca. 5 minutes, silent, b&w, video; LC Collection).
Screen Snapshots Issue No. 15 F -- Excerpt (Screen Snapshots, Inc., 1921). Producers: Jack Cohn and Louis Lewyn in cooperation with Screenland Magazine. (2 minutes, silent, b&w, video; LC Collection).
Moran of the Lady Letty -- Incomplete (Paramount, 1922). Director: George Melford. Writer: Monte M. Katterjohn, based on the novel by Frank Norris. Cast: Dorothy Dalton, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Brinley, Walter Long. (41 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves, author of several books on film and popular culture.
Friday, February 19 (7:00 pm)
The Girl Can't Help It (20th Century-Fox, 1956). Director: Frank Tashlin. Writers: Herbert Baker, Frank Tashlin. Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmund O'Brien, Julie London. (99 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox)
Tuesday, February 23 (7:00 pm) Singers
Young at Heart (Warner Bros., 1955). Director: Gordon Douglas. Writer: Liam O'Brien from the screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Lenore Coffee, based on Sister Act by Fannie Hurst. Camera: Ted McCord. Cast: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, and Dorothy Malone. (117 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Thursday, February 25 (6:30 pm)
Camille (Metro, 1921). Director: Ray C. Smallwood [and Nazimova]. Writer: June Mathis, based on the book by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Cast: Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman, Arthur Hoyt. (ca. 64 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
preceded by
Nazimova Screen Test (Metro?, 1919). (1 minute, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Eye for Eye -- Trailer (Metro, 1918). (1 minute, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
The Redeeming Sin -- Trailer (Vitagraph, 1925). (2 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Salome -- Abridgement (Nazimova Productions, Inc., 1921) Director: Charles Bryant [and Nazimova]. Writer: Peter M. Winters [pseudonym of Nazimova], based on the play by Oscar Wilde. Cast: Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel De Brulier, Arthur Jasmina, Earl Schenck. (ca. 26 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves.
Friday, February 26 (7:00 pm)
Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros., 1974). Director: Mel Brooks. Writers: Mel Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger. Camera: Joseph Biroc. Cast: Clevon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman. (93 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Tuesday, March 2 (6:30 pm) Singers
Mary Poppins (Walt Disney, 1964). Director: Robert Stevenson. Writers: Bill Walsh and Donald Da Gradi, based on the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers. Camera: Edward Colman. Songs: Richard and Robert Sherman. Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber. (140 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Disney).
Thursday, March 4 (6:30 pm) Valentino
Blood and Sand (Paramount, 1922). Director: Fred Niblo. Writer: June Mathis, from the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, George Field. (80 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
followed by
Cobra (Paramount, 1925). Director: Joseph Henabery. Writer: Anthony Coldeway. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson. (ca. 73 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Friday, March 5 (7:00 pm)
A Face in the Crowd (Warner Bros., 1957). Director: Elia Kazan. Writer: Budd Schulberg. Camera: Harry Stradling and Gayne Rescher. Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick. (125 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Tuesday, March 9 (7:00 pm) Warner Bros. and the "Social Conscience" Film
Black Legion (Warner Bros., 1937). Director: Archie Mayo. Writers: Robert Lord, Abem Finkel, and William Haines. Camera: George Barnes. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Erin O'Brien Moore, Ann Sheridan. (83 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Thursday, March 11 (6:30 pm) Valentino
Monsieur Beaucaire (Paramount, 1924). Director: Sidney Olcott. Writer: Forrest Halsey, based on the novel by Booth Tarkington and the play by Evelyn G. Sutherland. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman. (ca. 105 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
preceded by
Rudolph Valentino and his 88 American Beauties (Selznick Distributing Corp., 1923). (11 minutes, silent, b&w, video; LC Collection).
Hollywood, Part 6: Swanson and Valentino -- Excerpt (Thames Television, 1980). Directors/Writers: Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Narrator: James Mason. (ca. 25 minutes, sound, color and b&w, video; LC Collection, courtesy Thames Television).
The Young Rajah -- Trailer (Paramount, 1922). (ca. 2 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
When Love Grows Cold -- Trailer (Film Booking Office, 1926). (ca. 4 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Friday, March 12 (7:00 pm)
Planet of the Apes (20th Century-Fox, 1968) Director: Franklin Schaffner. Writer: Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, based on the Pierre Boulle novel Monkey Planet. Camera: Leon Shamroy. Makeup: John Chambers. Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly. (112 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
Tuesday, March 16 (7:00 pm) Valentino
The Eagle (United Artists, 1925). Director: Clarence Brown. Writer: Hans Kraly, based on the short story Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser. (ca. 72 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Rudolph Valentino (Astor Pictures, 1941). Narration: Harold Stone. (12 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
The Eagle -- Trailer (United Artists, 1925) (2 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
The Son of the Sheik -- Abridgement (Feature Productions, Inc., 1926). Director: George Fitzmaurice. Writers: Frances Marion, Fred De Gresac. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Agnes Ayres. (ca. 20 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
The Chicago Daily News Screen Service, Vol. 2?, Issue No. 9: Valentino Funeral Awes Thousands (Chicago Daily News, 1926). Producer/Author: Charles E. Ford. (3 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
Thursday, March 18 (7:00 pm)
Breaking Away (20th Century-Fox, 1979). Director: Peter Yates. Writer: Steve Tesich. Camera: Matthew Leonetti. Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Robyn Douglas. (100 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
Tonight's film will be introduced by MBRS staff member Pat Padua.
Friday, March 19 (7:00 pm)
Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (Eve Productions, 1965). Director: Russ Meyer. Writers: Russ Meyer and Jack Moran. Cast: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Stuart Lancaster. (83 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy RM Films International).
Tonight's film will be introduced by MBRS staff member Pat Padua.
Monday, March 22 (7:00 pm) Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital screening
With Williamson Beneath the Sea (Principal Distributing Corp., 1932). Director: J.E. Williamson. Writer: A. Hyatt Verrill. Cast: J.E., Lilah, and Sylvia Williamson. (59 minutes, sound, b&w and color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Sylvia Williamson Munro).
followed by
The Sea Around Us (RKO, 1953). Producer: Irwin Allen. Writer: Irwin Allen, based on the book by Rachel Carson. Narrators: Don Forbes, Theodore von Eltz. (62 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves.
Tuesday, March 23 (7:00 pm)
Lord Love a Duck (Charleston Enterprises Corp, 1966). Director: George Axelrod. Writers: George Axelrod, Larry H. Johnson. Cast: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman. (104 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy of United Artists).
Thursday, March 25 (7:00 pm)
Jazz on a Summer's Day (Galaxy Attractions, 1960). Director: Bert Stern. Writers: Arnold Perl and Albert D'Annibale. Cast: Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Mahalia Jackson. (85 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Harlem Hot Shots (Sack Amusement Co., 1940). (8 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Friday, March 26 (6:30 pm)
Sherman's March (First Run Features, 1986). Director/Writer: Ross McElwee. Narration: Ross McElwee and Richard Leacock. (155 minutes, sound, color, 16mm; LC Collection, courtesy Ross McElwee).
Tuesday, March 30 (7:00 pm)
The Quiet One (Film Documents, Inc., 1948). Director: Helen Levitt, with James Agee, Janet Loeb and Sidney Meyers. Cast: Donald Thompson, Saide Stockton, Clarence Cooper, Estelle Evans. (67 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Sam (M.L. Bach, 1972). Director: Margaret Lesser Bach. (20 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
Thursday, April 1 (7:00 pm)
Imitation of Life (Universal, 1934). Director: John Stahl. Writer: William Hurlbut from the novel by Fannie Hurst. Camera: Merritt Gerstad. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers. (109 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Universal).
preceded by
Imitation of Life -- Trailer (Universal, 1945). (3 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Universal).
Tuesday, April 6 (7:00 pm) Warner Bros. and the "Social Conscience" Film
Five Star Final (Warner Bros., 1931). Director: Mervyn Le Roy. Writers: Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn. Camera: Sol Polito. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Boris Karloff, H.B. Warner. (89 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Thursday, April 8 (7:00 pm) Images of Native Americans in Silent Film
The Call of the Wild (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1908). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: Arthur Marvin, G.W. Bitzer. Cast: Florence Lawrence, Charles Inslee, Harry Solter, George Gebhardt, Mack Sennett. (11 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
followed by
The Redman and the Child (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1908). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: Arthur Marvin. Cast: Charles Inslee, John Tansey, George Gebhardt, Harry Solter, Linda Arvidson. (10 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
The Redman's View (Biograph, 1909). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: G.W. Bitzer. Cast: James Kirkwood, Owen Moore, W. Chrystie Miller, Dorothy West. (11 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
The Mended Lute (Biograph, 1909). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: G.W. Bitzer. Cast: James Kirkwood, Florence Lawrence, Owen Moore, Mack Sennett, Arthur Johnson, James Young Deer, Princess Red Wing. (11 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
The Broken Doll (Biograph, 1910). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: G.W. Bitzer. Cast: Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce, Alfred Paget, Jack Pickford, Mack Sennett. (12 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
A Romance of the Western Hills (Biograph, 1910). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: G.W. Bitzer. Cast: Mary Pickford, Charles H. West, Arthur Johnson, Alfred Paget, Dorothy West, Kate Bruce, Blanche Sweet. (11 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
The Chief's Daughter (Biograph, 1911). Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: G.W. Bitzer. Cast: Frank Grandon, Stephanie Longfellow, Jack Dillon. (12 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by Karen C. Lund, a digital conversion specialist in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, and the author of the finding aid American Indians in Silent Film: Motion Pictures in the Library of Congress, and a contributing author to Many Nations: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Indian and Alaska Native Peoples of the United States.
Friday, April 9 (7:00 pm)
Days of Heaven (Paramount, 1978). Director/Writer: Terrence Malick. Camera: Nestor Almendros, with additional camerawork by Haskell Wexler. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Stuart Margolin. (95 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Tuesday, April 13 (7:00 pm)
Decision Before Dawn (20th Century-Fox, 1951). Director: Anatole Litvak. Writer: Peter Viertel, based on the novel Call It Treason by George Howe. Camera: Frank Planer. Cast: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Kneff. (119 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
Thursday, April 15 (7:00 pm) Images of Native Americans in Silent Film
The Heart of Wetona (Norma Talmadge Film Corp., 1919). Director: Sidney A. Franklin. Writer: Mary Murillo, based on a story by George Scarborough. Camera: David Abel. Cast: Norma Talmadge, Fred Huntley, Thomas Meighan, Princess Uwane Yea, White Eagle. (66 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Maya, Just an Indian (Frontier, 1913). (11 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
White Fawn's Devotion (Pathé Frères, 1910). (9 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Karen Lund.
Friday, April 16 (6:30 pm)
Night of the Living Dead (Image Ten, 1968). Director/Camera: George Romero. Writer: John Russo. Cast: Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman. (96 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
The Wolf Man (Universal, 1941). Director: George Waggner. Writer: Curt Siodmak. Camera: Joseph Valentine. Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy. (70 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Universal). new Motion Picture Preservation Lab print
Tuesday, April 20 (7:00 pm)
The Suspect (Universal, 1944). Director: Robert Siodmak. Writer: Bertram Millhauser. Cinematography: Paul Ivano. Cast: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Rosalind Ivan, Henry Daniell. (85 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Universal).
Thursday, April 22 (7:00 pm) Images of Native Americans in Silent Film
The Silent Enemy (Burder-Chanler Productions, 1930). Director: H.P. Carver. Writer: Richard Carver. Camera: Frank M. Broda, Horace D. Ashton, William Casel, Otto Durkoltz. Cast: Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk, Cheeka. (84 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
The Death Mask (Kay Bee Columbia, 1914). Producer: Thomas H. Ince. (16 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Karen Lund.
Friday, April 23 (6:30 pm)
Charlie Chan at the Opera (20th Century-Fox, 1936). Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Writers: Scott Darling and Charles S. Belden from a story by Bess Meredyth based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Cast: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck. (68 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
preceded by
Fifty Candles (W.W. Hodkinson Corp., 1921). Director: Irvin Willat. Cast: Bertram Grassby, Marjorie Daw, Ruth King, Wade Boteler, William Carroll. (ca. 70 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves.
Tuesday, April 27 (7:00 pm) Warner Bros. and the "Social Conscience" Film
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Warner Bros., 1933). Director: Michael Curtiz. Writers: Wilson Mizner and Brown Holmes from the book by Lewis Lawes. Camera: Barney McGill. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron. (81 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy, Turner Entertainment).
Thursday, April 29 (7:00 pm) Images of Native Americans in Silent Film
In the Land of the War Canoes: Kwakiutl Indian Life on the Northwest Coast (Burke Museum, 1973) [Re-edited version of In the Land of the Head Hunters (Seattle Film Co., 1914)]. Director: Edward S. Curtis. Scenario: Edward S. Curtis. (44 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Hiawatha (Frank E. Moore, 1913). Producer: Frank E. Moore. Camera: Victor Milner. Cast: Soon-goot. (20 minutes, silent, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers (Edison, 1911). Director: Edwin S. Porter. Cast: Laura Sawyer, James Gordon, Herbert Prior. (11 minutes, silent with Dutch intertitles, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Karen Lund.
Friday, April 30 (7:00 pm)
Payday (Fantasy Films, 1972). Director: Daryl Duke. Writer: Don Carpenter. Camera: Richard Glouner. Cast: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil, Michael Gwynne. (103 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection).
Tuesday, May 4 (6:30 pm)
Outcast (Paramount, 1937). Director: Robert Florey. Writers: Doris Malloy and Dore Schary, from the novel Happiness Preferred by Frank R. Adams. Camera: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Warren William, Karen Morley, Lewis Stone, Jackie Moran. (73 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount). new Motion Picture Preservation Lab print
preceded by
Legion of Terror (Columbia, 1936). Director: C.C. Coleman. Writer: Bert Granet. Cast: Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Ward Bond. (63 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Columbia). new Motion Picture Preservation Lab print
Outcast will be introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves, author of Robert Florey, The French Expressionist (Scarecrow Press, 1987).
Thursday, May 6 (7:00 pm) Images of Native Americans in Silent Film
The Vanishing American (Paramount, 1925). Director: George B. Seitz. Writer: Ethel Doherty. Camera: C. Edgar Schoenbaum, Harry Perry. Cast: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor, Nocki. (110 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection. courtesy Paramount).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Karen Lund.
Friday, May 7 (7:00 pm)
The Talk of the Town (Columbia, 1942). Director: George Stevens. Writers: Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman, from a story by Sidney Harmon. Camera: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Edgar Buchanan. (118 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Columbia).
Tuesday, May 11 (7:00 pm)
Foolish Wives (Universal, 1921). Director/Writer: Erich von Stroheim. Camera: Ben Reynolds, William Daniels. Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Mae Busch, Maud George. (107 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Universal).
Thursday, May 13 (7:00 pm)
Conversations with Willard Van Dyke (A. R. Rothschild, 1981). Director: Amalie R. Rothschild. Writers: Julie Sloane and Amalie R. Rothschild. (60 minutes, sound, color and b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
preceded by
Happy Mother's Day (Filmakers Leacock and Pennebaker, Inc., 1964). Directors: Richard Leacock and Joyce Chopra with Nancy Sen. Narration: Ed McCurdy. (26 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm: LC Collection).
Betty Tells Her Story (New Day Films, 1972). Director: Liane Brandon. (20 minutes, sound, b&w, 16mm; LC Collection).
Friday, May 14 (6:30 pm) Warner Bros. and the "Social Conscience" Film
Heroes for Sale (Warner Bros., 1933). Director: William Wellman. Writers: Robert Lord and Wilson Mizner. Camera: James Van Trees. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon. (73 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
preceded by
Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Bros., 1933). Director: William Wellman. Writer: Earl Baldwin. Camera: Arthur Todd. Cast: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Philips. (68 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Turner Entertainment).
Tonight's program will be introduced by MBRS staff member Mike Mashon.
Tuesday, May 18 (6:30 pm)
Becky Sharp (RKO, 1935). Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Writer: Francis Faragoh from the novel by William Thackeray. Camera: Ray Rennahan. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Cedric Hardwicke, Frances Dee, Billy Burke. (83 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; print courtesy UCLA Film and Television Archive).
preceded by
Applause (Paramount, 1929). Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Writer: Garrett Fort from the novel by Beth Brown. Camera: George Folsey. Cast: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Henry Wadsworth. (78 minutes, silent, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
Thursday, May 20 (7:00 pm)
Pick-Up on South Street (20th Century-Fox, 1953). Director/Writer: Samuel Fuller from a story by Dwight Taylor. Camera: Joe MacDonald. Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley. (80 minutes, sound, b&w, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Fox).
Friday, May 21 (6:30 pm) Singers
Lady Sings the Blues (Paramount, 1972). Director: Sidney J. Furie. Writers: Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, and Suzanne De Passe, based on the book by Billie Holiday and William Duffy. Camera: John A. Alonzo. Music: Michel Legrand. Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James Callahan, Scatman Crothers. (144 minutes, sound, color, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Paramount).
All programs are subject to change.
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