Event Film and Video Screenings The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Date and Location

  • When: Thursday, July 20, 2023

    6:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

  • Where: James Madison Building - Pickford Theater (LM302)

    101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Join us in the Madison Building for a special film screening of "The Fortune Cookie" (1966).

After he is injured when a football player runs into him during a game, a TV cameraman is persuaded by a shyster lawyer, who is also his brother-in-law, to make a bundle of money by suing everyone involved in the incident. The film that launched Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon as a comedy duo, a partnership that would last for over two decades.

Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.