Marie Dressler Foundation presents WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD

featuring:

Cari Beauchamp

Matthew Kennedy

Friday, September 14, 2018 Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, Cobourg, Ontario Kim Rudd MP, Northumberland-Peterborough South Congratulations on Celebrating “Women and Hollywood” (800)461-6742 [email protected]

DON’T MISS OUR SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS held at Art Gallery of Northumberland, Victoria Hall

Admission to these events is free due to the generosity of our sponsors

September 15 2:00 pm Music & Cinema with John Kraus

September 23 2:00 pm Art Deco: High Style for a Jazz Age with Olex Wlasenko

September 27 7:00 pm Stage & Cinema: Why Some Work and Some Don’t with Antonio Sarmiento

October 4 7:00 pm Jordan Klapman: How I Score Silent Cinema

Details at www.mariedressler.ca 2 WELCOME TO WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD

Welcome to “Women and Hollywood”, brought to you by Marie Dressler Foundation. We’re happy to see you here in historic Victoria Hall.

This year we are celebrating the 150th birthday of Cobourg-born Academy Award winner Marie Dressler with a number of community events.

Currently, an Exhibition entitled “Cobourg’s Sweetheart: Celebrating Marie Dressler” at Art Gallery of Northumberland explores the relationship of the community with Marie Dressler. This Exhibition features video interviews with prominent Cobourg community members and traces the history of her birthplace home to present day. The Exhibition runs until November 10th.

Marie Dressler Museum, located in Marie’s birthplace home at 212 King Street West, Cobourg, is an interactive experience. You can learn about Marie’s life and achievements and listen to Marie sing on recordings circa 1910, as well as see her perform in silent and “talkie” movies.

This evening, we are pleased to offer an interesting and provocative look at opportunities for women, particularly in the film industry.

Our first speaker,Matthew Kennedy will give us insights into Marie Dressler’s lesser known work as a social activist to a number of vital causes.

Cari Beauchamp will talk about the powerful roles of women in front of and behind the camera in early Hollywood and the goal of 50 / 50 by 2020.

Our evening will conclude with a draw for some great door prizes. The speakers will be available to sign books which will be on sale after the presentations. Details of the books are on page 10.

Finally, a birthday year wouldn’t be complete without a fabulous birthday. We are recreating Marie’s famous 65th birthday held in 1933 at MGM Studios in Hollywood, with a 1930s’-themed evening, called “Dinner At Eight”. On September 29, we will offer “bubbly”, a four course dinner (not rations) with wine, jazz and big band music during dinner by Northumberland Orchestra, Cobourg’s biggest birthday cake, some special surprises, and a showing of one Marie’s most popular movies, “Dinner At Eight”. A photo booth with a vintage car will capture memories in true 1930’s black and white. Tickets are on sale at Best Western Cobourg Inn. Check out page 12.

And wait, there’s more...don’t forget the 26th Annual Vintage Film Festival. See page 14.

Rick Miller President and Chair, Marie Dressler Foundation

© 2018 Marie Dressler Foundation Registered charity no. 13018 8535 RR0001 3 Our Partners

Our thanks go out to the following organizations for helping us to promote this event:

Northumberland Learning Connection Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre Canadian Federation of University Women Northumberland Northumberland Film Sundays The Capitol Theatre Toronto Silent Film Festival Alumnae Theatre Company

Thanks Mark Rockburn for your video production of this event

Media support

Our print and copy partner for event programs, event posters, tickets and technology purchases Thanks to Corrie Brereton, General Manager and her staff

Accommodations for our speakers Thanks to Stephen Della Casa

2018 Community Grant Program Rental of Concert Hall, Victoria Hall Sound equipment in Concert Hall is courtesy of Victoria Hall Volunteers

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MARIE DRESSLER MUSEUM

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Discover the fascinating life and career of one of Hollywood’s best loved stars Featuring digital interactive story-telling, original artifacts, photographs, film clips, music

5 Tonight’s Program

Opening Remarks by Rick Miller, President & Chair, Marie Dressler Foundation

Marie Dressler: Social Activist by Matthew Kennedy

Special Presentation

Women and Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp

Draw for door prizes - retain your ticket stub

Meet the Speakers and Book Signings

Marie Dressler was ahead of her time with respect to championing the right of women to self-esteem.

In her 1934 autobiography, My Own Story, she said:

“To this day, I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features or how indifferent her figure. She needs this inward assurance to give her serenity, poise, and power.

It is her birthright.

To all women between the ages of eight and eighty, who want to grow in beauty, here is my advice: Forget what your looking glass tells you, but say to yourself a dozen times a day ‘I am beloved’.

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For details of the events in the “Celebrate Marie Dressler 150” Program, check out our website at www.mariedressler.ca

7 Women and Hollywood

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Cari Beauchamp will explore what has really changed for women since the movie days of Marie Dressler, some 90 years ago. Ms. Beauchamp will reference the powerful roles of women in front of and behind the cameras in early Hollywood and the goal of 50 / 50 by 2020. She will discuss the critical importance of communities of women, in early Hollywood and now.

About Cari Beauchamp

Cari Beauchamp is an award winning author, journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is the author ofWithout Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of early Hollywood; Anita Loos Rediscovered; Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside story of the Cannes Film Festival; Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from the 1920’s and Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years. Her most recent book, My First Time in Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers and Misfits who made the Movies, is an anthology of first person accounts by over 40 legends of the film business about their arrival in Los Angeles. Without Lying Down was awarded Book of the Year by the National Theatre Arts Association and several of her books have been selected for “Best of the Year” lists by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Booklist and Amazon.

Cari is the only person ever to be twice named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and is currently serving as resident scholar to the Mary Pickford Foundation. She wrote and co-produced the documentary film Without Lying Down about the women of early Hollywood which played on Turner Classic Movies and for which she was nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award. She also wrote the documentary film The Day my God Died about young girls of Nepal sold into sexual slavery which played on PBS and was nominated for an Emmy.

Cari is a contributor to Vanity Fair and writes for various other magazines. She has appeared in multiple documentaries on film history including The Story of Film as well as being a featured speaker at venues throughout the United States and Europe including The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, The Edinburgh Film Festival, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Women’s Museum of Art in Washington, D.C, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has served as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards and on the Board of Directors of PEN USA. Before turning to writing full time, she was a private investigator, served as Press Secretary to Governor Jerry Brown and as the first state chair of National Women’s Political Caucus of California.

8 Marie Dressler: Social Activist

Cobourg-born Marie Dressler (1868-1934) is most remembered as a be- loved actress whose career spanned vaudeville, comic opera, Broadway, radio, silent films, and talkies, but there are other equally compelling aspects to her extraordinary life. This presentation by Dressler biographer Matthew Kennedy focuses on her lesser known work as a social activist to a number of vital causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

About Matthew Kennedy

Matthew Kennedy is a writer, film historian, and anthropolo- gist living in Oakland, California. He is the author of Marie Dressler: A Biography (McFarland, 1999, paperback 2006), Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (University Press of Mississipi, 2007), and Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960’s (Oxford University Press, 2014).

He is film and book critic for the respected Bright Lights Film Journal, and his articles have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Performing Arts, San Francisco Chronicle, program books for the TCM Classic Film Festival and San Francisco Silent Film Festial, and the National Film Registry. Kennedy is a former modern dancer, arts administrator, concert prodcuer, and contracted writer to George Lucas Books.

He has been a guest speaker and films screening host at the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, Mechanics Institute Library, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and on radio, podcasts, and television. His book Roadshow! was the basis of a film series on Turner Classic Movies. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a San Francisco Cable Car Media/Journalism Award. He holds a BA in theater arts from UCLA and an MA in anthropology from UC Davis, is a member of The Authors Guild, and is represented by Stuart Bernstein Represen- tation for Artists in New York.

9 Books for Sale

A limited number of books will be available for sale at a substantial dis- count, by special arrangement with the authors and their publishers. The authors will be available to sign books after their presentation.

Marie Dressler: A Biography; With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, A Filmography, and a Discography, by Matthew Kennedy; paperback 269 pages

$30.00

My First Time in Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers, and Misfits Who Made the Movies; by Cari Beauchamp; paperback 358 pages

$30.00

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood, by Cari Beauchamp; paperback 475 pages

$40.00

Upcoming Marie Dressler Films

Sept. 29 Dinner At Eight Birthday Dinner at Best Western Cobourg Oct. 12 Anna Christie Vintage Film Festival, Port Hope Oct. 13 Politics Vintage Film Festival, Port Hope Oct. 14 The Patsy Vintage Film Festival, Port Hope Nov. 16 Anna Christie T.I.F.F. Cinematique, Toronto

10 11 Proceeds to Marie Dressler Foundation, a registered charity

12 WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD

Our displays honour women pioneers of early Hollywood. Please take a few moments to check out the stories about these unique women.

MARY PICKFORD (1892-1970)

Academy Award winner for Best Actress 1929

NORMA SHEARER (1902-1983)

Academy Award winner for Best Actress 1930

MARIE DRESSLER (1868-1934)

Academy Award winner for Best Actress 1931

FRANCES MARION (1888-1973)

Film Pioneer: Most Respected Screenwriter of the 20th Century

LOIS WEBER (1879-1939)

Silent Film Pioneer: Visionary and Mentor

NEL SHIPMAN (1892-1970)

A Canadian Pioneer: Actress, Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Animal Trainer

DOROTHY ARZNER (1897-1979)

Film Pioneer: Breaking the Glass Ceiling

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