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 ! 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

“ 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 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 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, and song. Please list your two favorite films: 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 , 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 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

Mamoulian directed the original 1935 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- 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

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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 star

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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. successfulA 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) one of America’s premiere Director Vincent Minnelli said, 1935 dance concert at the theatrical dance choreographers wasn’t “Gloria gives bad girl a good name.” Director easy. She fell in love with dance at age Bowl received poor reviews when the She received an Oscar nomination for 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 “,” 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 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 ’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 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. Grahame brought romances and failed marriages. In 1960, Grahame collapsed during a rehearsal Cast in New Mexico and New square dances. Agnes would re-create a bad-girl edge to the character of Ado even Hollywood was scandalized after for a British stage play, and returned to York. In 1930, uncle C.B. her choreography for the film version Annie, who “cain’t say no” which critics her marriage to Tony Ray, Grahame’s , where she died at the Gordon MacRae, , offered Agnes a road of Oklahoma! (1955). found “refreshing and innovative.” former stepson and son of her ex- age of 57. Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, show complete with his Fellow actors and crew members husband, director Nicholas Ray (In A After “Oklahoma!,” Agnes worked Rod Steiger, Eddie Albert, trademark “exploitation on other top Broadway on a circus Charlotte Greenwood, musicals including Rodgers and scale.” James Whitmore, Jay C. Flippen Hammerstein’s 1945 “” ROY BARCROFT: Not Just Any Face In The Crowd and 1947 “,” and Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 “” he actor playing Marshall Cord Elam in Oklahoma! is familiar, it’s not your and 1951 “Paint Your Wagon.” She T imagination. Western villain Roy Barcroft appeared in almost 400 motion organized the Agnes de Mille Dance pictures during his career. Featured in serials and westerns for Republic Pictures, Film But, when Theatre and gave lectures and wrote (which signed him for a ten year contract in 1943), Barcroft was a reliable menace Agnes said she would over 30 books about dance and her to a generation of leading men. A typical year like 1944 credited him with 19 Society need time to choreograph career. In 1980 Agnes received the motion pictures for Republic, menacing Richard Arlen, Roy Rodgers, Bill Elliott, the dances, C.B. withdrew Kennedy Center Honor and in 1986 Robert Livingston and Alan “Rocky” Lane and taking a brief moment as a good guy Donors the opportunity. With her was awarded the National Medal in support of John Wayne in The Fighting Seabees. As the “B” western era wound mother’s financial support David & Catherine STROHMAIER of Arts. She passed away in 1993, down in the early fifties Barcroft transitioned to television and made the rounds of and encouragement Agnes every “oater” from “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” through “ and Bernard VYZGA but Agnes’ groundbreaking work was able to tour Europe, “”. He could play a crooked land speculator or kindly Judge and Sheriff on on Oklahoma! (1955) continues to settling in London in 1932. different episodes in the same week. Allan G. Barbour dedicates his history of the Laura RICHARZ entertain film audiences. Uncle C.B. had her design Roy Barcroft (left) conspires with film vet movie serial (DAYS OF THRILLS AND ADVENTURE) to Roy and his last film role was in the Lee Marvin western Monte Walsh (1970). Randy & Janice CARTER dances for his Cleopatra Edmund Cobb in the Republic serial G Men Richard & Barbara COUNSIL (1934) but fired her Never Forget (1948). The pair list over 1000 film credits. Cobb, a leading man in silents When Barcroft appeared on screen every ten year old knew who the bad guy was from when he felt the Michael & Felice FEINSTEIN from 1912 was married for a decade to the first reel but it usually took the handsome six-gun hero a full hour to catch on. Broadway legend Richard WEBSTER & Kim KENNE Agnes de Mille struts her stuff in “Rodeo”.

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