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Voice Theatre Mail this application with a check to: Alex Film Society P.O. Box 4807, Glendale, CA 91222-0807 DRIP-ALONG DAFFY AlexFilm SOCIETY Name(s) please print __________________________________________ presents Org/Business ______________________________________________ Warner Bros. 1951 Technicolor Address __________________________________________________ Our cartoon is a wonderful entry City ________________ State _____________ Zip+4 ____________ into the cycle of shorts that Chuck Jones directed for Home Phone ___________________Cell _______________________ Warner Bros., teaming up E-mail ___________________________________________________ the unlikely duo of Daffy THEATRE q I (WE) CAN VOLUNTEER. Please call. Duck and Porky Pig to spoof Oklahoma! Broadway Roots Run Deep various film genres. DRIP- q Enclosed is my (our) donation of $________ ALONG DAFFY (1951) has our q Sustaining Member - $500 q Dual/Family - $50 favorite little black duck playing a 10 discounted tickets per show 4 discounted tickets per show “Western Type Hero”, with Porky the of THE ALEX FILM SOCIETY! 10 free tickets per year 4 free tickets per year The landmark 1943 production Program acknowledgement as his “Comic Relief” sidekick. q Individual - $35 Together they have to clean of Oklahoma! from the team of q Supporting Member - $250 2 discounted tickets per show up a one-horse “Lawless Richard Rodgers and Oscar 8 discounted tickets per show 2 free tickets per year 8 free tickets per year Western Town”. Plenty of Hammerstein II, fulfilled the q Program acknowledgement Senior/Student - $25 gags, great artwork and Jones’ promise of Show Boat nearly two decades earlier 1 discounted ticket per show in reinterpreting distinctly American themes and VOICE q Patron - $100 (full time student or senior 65+) direction, voices by Mel Blanc and Journal of the Alex Film Society 6 discounted tickets per show music by Carl Stalling all leading to a terrific traditions. For all its homespun façade, the show was, 6 free tickets per year comic showdown, as our boys face off against and is, amazingly sophisticated in its approach, presenting a the villainous Nasty Canasta. laudable meshing of drama, dance and song. Please list your two favorite films: Rod Steiger etched a menacing portrayal of Jud Fry. ______________________________________________ Many thanks to Marilee Womack at Warner The creative impetus for Oklahoma! came from Theresa Helburn, Bros. for our print. co-director of the Theatre Guild, the prestigious organization founded Become a member of ______________________________________________ Jerome Kern in a musical version of the in 1918 to present classic and contemporary dramatic works on Riggs play. Broadway. By the early 1940’s the Guild was nearly bankrupt and Helburn hired Rouben Mamoulian as Helburn had the idea that a musical version of Lynn Rigg’s play director and Agnes de Mille as choreographer. Green Grow the Lilacs, which the Guild had produced in New York Mamoulian directed the original 1935 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Chamber Angeles Los a decade earlier, Broadway production of Porgy and Bess. part, by Glendale Arts and the the and Arts Glendale by part, might refill the For the screen he directed two milestones performance is supported, in in supported, is performance organization’s coffers. in the early film musical Applause (1929) a This year our matinee matinee our year This She first approached tender-tough look at the world of burlesque family. Tickets on sale now! now! sale on Tickets family. Rodgers and Hart to starring Helen Morgan and the Jeanette Guaranteed fun for the whole whole the for fun Guaranteed make the adaptation. MacDonald-Maurice Chevalier vehicle But Hart was too vintage cartoon. vintage Love Me Tonight (1932). engulfed in willful short and as always, a a always, as and short self-destruction In its development and rehearsal stages, (1930); a 1930’s Little Rascals Rascals Little 1930’s a (1930); the show, known as Away We Go was Laurel & Hardy’s Hog Wild Wild Hog Hardy’s & Laurel to muster any enthusiasm for the cattily deemed “Helburn’s Folly”, by the of shorts including: shorts of project and walked theatrical cognoscenti. Impresario Mike Our program will be capped off with an eclectic selection selection eclectic an with off capped be will program Our out on Rodgers, Todd, upon viewing the New Haven tryout, Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 2 and 8 pm only only pm 8 and 2 at 2010 26, June Saturday, 4 live acts of comedy, magic and mayhem. and magic comedy, of acts live 4 ending the team’s delivered the now-famous riposte, “no gags, followed by by followed be Oklahoma! IAN WHITCOMB and the Bungalow Boys Boys Bungalow the and WHITCOMB IAN twenty-two year no girls, no chance.” On March 31, 1943 generation of fans. Headlining our live acts this year will will year this acts live our Headlining fans. of generation partnership. Rodgers Oklahoma! opened at the St. James Theatre acts similar to those that made vaudeville so beloved by a a by beloved so vaudeville made that those to similar acts turned immediately in New York to rapturous praise. Oklahoma! The one-matinee-only event is an eclectic mix of variety variety of mix eclectic an is event one-matinee-only The to Oscar Hammerstein fever overtook Broadway, creating an Glendale, CA 91222-0807 CA Glendale, historic Alex Theatre. Alex historic II, whose career unprecedented demand for tickets that led to for the 11th time to Glendale’s Glendale’s to time 11th the for P. O. Box 4807, 4807, Box O. P. VAUDEVILLE RETURNS! VAUDEVILLE was in the a run of 2,212 performances that endured for doldrums. Curiously, over five years. Of the original company, the Fun and Frolic and Fun of icane Hurr A eryone! for Ev for Hammerstein had all-but-unknown Alfred Drake parlayed his Vol. 16. No. 3 June 26, 2010, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m 16. Vol. recently tried, and success in the role of Curly into a career that September 19 19 September at 2 pm Only! pm 2 at Sunday, Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae sing the title failed to interest made him the preeminent musical theatre star 818.243.2539 Tickets: roles of Curly and Laurey in the 1955 CinemaScope production. frequent partner of the era. Film Calendar Film www.AlexFilmSociety.org loria Grahame signed a contract Oklahoma! 1955 gnes de Mille was born with MGM in 1944 after Louis into a theatrical family. Her Agnes de Mille: GB. Mayer saw her performing on 20Th Century Fox grandfather, Henry, and her Broadway. She made her film debut the father, William, were both same year in Blonde Fever and scored CinemaScope 145 Mins. Asuccessful dramatists and uncle Cecil A Challenging as the neurotic small town girl Violet, (C.B.) was one of the “founding fathers” who is saved from a disgraceful and Music And Lyrics by of American film, helping to start Road to Fame disheartening future by George Bailey in Richard Rodgers and the Lasky Company (later Paramount It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). MGM was Pictures) and directing lavish spectacles unable to develop her potential and sold Oscar Hammerstein II her contract to RKO Studios in 1947. such as The 10 Commandments (1923 by Annick J. Downhower Based on the Play and 1956). Grahame was often featured in film noir pictures as a tarnished beauty “Green Grows The Lilacs” Despite those roots, Agnes’ journey to with an irresistible sexual allure. By Linda Harris routines weren’t risqué enough. Her by Lynn Riggs (1931) becoming one of America’s premiere Director Vincent Minnelli said, 1935 dance concert at the Hollywood theatrical dance choreographers wasn’t “Gloria gives bad girl a good name.” easy. She fell in love with dance at age Bowl received poor reviews when the She received an Oscar nomination for Director 9 after seeing ballerina Anna Pavlova lighting failed. Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire GLORIA GRAHAME: Good at BEING Bad Fred Zinneman perform. But, Agnes’ parents refused to (1947). Grahame starred with Humphrey Gloria Grahame as a starlet on the make In A Lonely Place (1950). Her rise to fame began in 1942 when let her take lessons until her younger Bogart in the 1950 film In A Lonely she designed and performed “Rodeo,” sister was prescribed dance for a Place, a performance garnering her claimed that Grahame really was a bad Lonely Place, Rebel Without a Cause) Production Design a dance set in the American West. medical condition. Then, both girls were considerable praise. She won the girl, upstaging co-stars and mistreating whom she had divorced in 1952. Gloria Oliver Smith This led to her 1943 choreography permitted to take ballet. Despite being Academy Award for Best Supporting dancers and crew members alike. After had children by both father and son. for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Actress in The Bad and the Beautiful Oklahoma!, Grahame’s reputation as a Grahame told a reporter, “I married too short to be a classical ballerina, first collaboration, “Oklahoma!” (1952) directed by Minnelli. difficult actress spread, and her career Nicholas Ray, the director. People Cinematography Agnes was dedicated to her lessons. Her sequence, “Laurey Makes Up suffered as a result. She returned to yawned. Later on I married his son, and Robert Surtees Her Mind,” was so influential it led In 1955, the self-described tone deaf work on the stage, but continued from the press’s reaction you’d have After graduation from Grahame was cast to play Ado Annie in to dream ballets being included in to appear in films and television thought I was committing incest or UCLA Agnes decided Oklahoma. She sang without dubbing, Broadway musicals. The show’s dances productions, usually in supporting roles. robbing the cradle!” Choreography to seriously pursue which required that her songs be edited Agnes de Mille dance and her mother were also innovative in their mixing of together from recordings made almost Grahame had a string of stormy Diagnosed with cancer in 1980, helped her stage shows ballet with American folk dances and literally note by note.
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