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Classic Film Series Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights! CLASSIC PAID Non-Profit U.S. Postage Permit #1782 FILM SERIES White Plains, NY Winter/Spring 2013 Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights! Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series: Join us for the New-York Historical Society’s film series, featuring opening remarks by notable directors, writers, actors, and historians. World War II and Its Legacy in Film Organized in conjunction with WWII & NYC This selection of classic films will show a broad scope of life during and after the most widespread and destructive conflict in human history. Swing Time Films Organized in conjunction with Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York A series of films from the 1930s, reflecting the values and themes explored in the art of the Depression Era. Entrance to the film series is included with Museum Admission during New-York Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights (6-8 pm). No advanced reservations. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 pm. Auditorium doors open at 6:30 pm (unless otherwise noted). For more information on our featured films and speakers, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. The New-York Historical Society Dale Gregory VicePresident for Public Programs | Nick Mancini Manager of Public Programs | Alex Kassl Assistant Managerof Public Programs is grateful to Bank of America for its generous support of all Free Friday Programs. 170 Central Park170 West at Richard Gilder Way NY 10024New York, Publication Team: 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 Martin Scorsese, talks about her late husband are reflected in this riveting Michael Powell’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 William Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring Wendy Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) Wyler. Starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier. 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 John Ford. Speakers: Adam Gopnik, Richard Brody Friday, June 7, 7 pm Starring Henry Fonda. 100 min. Adam Gopnik and Richard Brody dive into Speakers: Mary Owen, Alfred Hitchcock’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 war film Speakers: Harold Holzer, Ron Simon Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert depicts the courage and As the war raged in Europe, Americans found solace and Harris Dudley Brigitte Lacombe Marshall, George Sanders. 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. Directed by John Ford. Starring Robert Cromwell. Starring Raymond Massey. 110 min. Friday, May 17, 7 pm Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed. 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 film noir Speakers: Richard Brody, murder mystery. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Starring Humphrey Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Will Friedwald Bogart, Gloria Grahame. 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 Frank Capra’s soldier’s budding romance is Friday, May 24, 7 pm timeless screwball comedy, in which small-town complicated by his posting Mr. Deeds – played memorably by Gary Cooper – Michael Lionstar Speakers: Will Friedwald, Ron Simon in the Pacific...and by his Join us for Fleet Week! Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly star as inherits millions in the midst of the Great Depression. fiancée! Directed by Busby sailors looking for love while on shore leave in Los Angeles in Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Gary Cooper, Berkeley. Starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker. 103 min. this classic wartime musical. Directed by George Sidney. Starring Jean Arthur, George Bancroft. 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 William Wyler’s classic romance, starring saved England. The film, made with Churchill’s input no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw Walter Huston in one of his greatest roles as a and encouragement, compares Britain’s struggle middle-aged man whose life changes forever against Napoleon 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 Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor. 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.
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