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Free Friday Programs. for its its for America of Bank to grateful is Society New-York Historical The please visitnyhistory.org/programs orcall(212)485-9205 . For more information onourfeatured filmsandspeakers, noted). open at6:30pm(unlessotherwise basisbeginning at6pm.first-come, first-served Auditorium doors (6-8 pm).NoTickets advanced reservations. are distributed ona New-York during Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights Entrance tothefilmseries isincludedwithMuseum Admission themes explored oftheDepression intheart Era. A series offilmsfrom the1930s,reflecting thevalues and Marsh andThirties Organized inconjunctionwithSwing Time: Reginald S conflict inhumanhistory. during andafterthemostwidespread anddestructive This selectionofclassicfilmswillshow abroad scopeoflife Organized inconjunctionwith WWII &NYC World War IIandI opening remarks by notabledirectors, writers, actors, andhistorians. Join usfortheNew-York Historical Society’s filmseries, featuring Classic Film S Bernard andI Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights! wing Time Filmswing Time generous support of all all of support generous rene Schwartz eries: ts LegacyinFilm

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Wuthering Heights (1939) I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Friday, April 19, 7 pm Friday, May 31, 7 pm Speakers: Catherine Speaker: Thelma Schoonmaker Wyler, Lesley Stahl Thelma Schoonmaker, the Academy Award- The tumultuous feelings of winning editor renowned for her work with a world on the brink of war , talks about her late husband are reflected in this riveting ’s masterpiece – a wartime adaptation of Emily Brontë’s romance between a fiery young woman and a WWII and Its Legacy in Film classic novel of love and naval officer on shore leave. Directed by Michael

Joan MarcusJoan betrayal. Directed by and . Starring Wendy Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) Wyler. Starring , . 103 min. Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown. 88 min. Friday, March 1, 7 pm Speakers: Harold Holzer, Ron Simon Foreign Correspondent (1940) They Were Produced as the world braced for war, this film depicts a young Abe Friday, May 3, 7 pm Expendable (1945) Lincoln bracing for the biggest case of his career. Directed by . Speakers: Adam Gopnik, Richard Brody Friday, June 7, 7 pm Starring . 100 min. Adam Gopnik and Richard Brody dive into Speakers: Mary Owen, ’s classic spy thriller, in which Craig L. Symonds, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) a young reporter struggles to uncover Nazi Ron Simon Friday, March 8, 7 pm agents in Britain. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. John Ford’s classic Speakers: Harold Holzer, Ron Simon Starring Joel McCrea, , Herbert depicts the courage and

As the war raged in , Americans found solace and Harris Dudley Brigitte Lacombe Marshall, . 120 min. strength of the PT boat crews inspiration in a film chronicling the nation’s greatest president serving in the Philippines in and his electrifying rise to national prominence. Directed by John In a Lonely Place (1950) the days after Pearl Harbor. . Starring Robert Cromwell. Starring . 110 min. Friday, May 17, 7 pm Montgomery, , . 135 min. Speakers: Adam Gopnik, Richard Brody The Gang’s All Here (1943) Adam Gopnik and Richard Brody discuss one of Bogart’s finest Swing Time Films Friday, March 22, 7 pm and lesser known film performances in this postwar Speakers: Richard Brody, murder mystery. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Starring Humphrey Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Will Friedwald Bogart, . 94 min. Friday, June 14, 7 pm Two experts celebrate this Speaker: Ted Widmer classic musical in which a Anchors Aweigh (1945) Historian Ted Widmer examines ’s soldier’s budding romance is Friday, May 24, 7 pm timeless , in which small-town complicated by his posting Mr. Deeds – played memorably by –

Michael Lionstar Speakers: Will Friedwald, Ron Simon in the Pacific...and by his Join us for Fleet Week! and star as inherits millions in the midst of the . fiancée! Directed by Busby sailors looking for love while on shore leave in in Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Gary Cooper, Berkeley. Starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker. 103 min. this classic wartime musical. Directed by . Starring , . 115 min. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson. 143 min. That Hamilton Woman (1941) Dodsworth (1936) Friday, March 29, 7 pm Friday July 12, 7 pm Speaker: Michael Korda Speakers: Catherine Wyler, Susan Lacy Michael Korda discusses the great romance of Lady “I reached the point of thinking there were Catherine Wyler and Susan Lacy discuss Hamilton and Admiral Nelson and how their love ’s classic romance, starring saved England. The film, made with Churchill’s input no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw in one of his greatest roles as a and encouragement, compares Britain’s struggle middle-aged man whose life changes forever against to its resistance against Hitler’s I Know Where I’m Going! ”- Martin Scorsese when he takes his vain wife on a trip to Europe. plans for world domination. Directed by Alexander Directed by William Wyler. Starring Walter Korda. Starring , Laurence Olivier, Huston, , . 101 min. Alan Mowbray. 128 min.

For more details and the latest information on our featured films and speakers, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. Film Series Programmer: Dale Marsha Gregory, Presented at the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 Vice President for Public Programs