Every other Wednesday
Doors open @ 6:30
Movie begins at 7:30 p.m.
Admission:
$5/Adults, $3/Seniors & Students, Free/museum member.
For more information please call (414) 278-8295
MOVIE TIME
Milwaukee film historian Dale Kuntz presents selections from his rare collection of classic films from the 30s and 40's. Films are shown on 16mm, reel-to-reel film. Most of these cinematic treasures are not available on DVD so don't miss this opportunity to see these films in their original glory on the big screen. Prior to each screening, Dale fascinates the audience with his knowledge of film history, giving the inside scoop on each film, including bizarre details about the stars and clues to help the audience spot little oddities that ended up in the film instead of on the cutting room floor.
A Ginger Rogers Tribute
Through September 2010
Ginger Rogers had a fabulous screen career appearing in some 73 films between 1930 - 1965, often as the leading lady or as the star of the film. Though she is known for her roles as a wise-cracking, fast talking dame, she has played everything from musicals and comedies to romantic dramas, and even murder mysteries.
Magnificent Doll
Wednesday, September 15
1946, 95 min.
Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Peggy Wood
In the second of only three period films Rogers made, she portrays Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. In a beautiful performance, Rogers takes Dolly from her early days on a Virginia Plantation to her life as a Quaker in Philadelphia, to her romance with Arron Burr, and finally as the First Lady in the White House. Early Philadelphia and the White House were amazingly recreated on the Universal back lot. Join us for this seldom seen film, one of Ginger's rare excursions into a costume drama.
Dreamboat
Wednesday, September 29
1952, 83 min.
Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb, Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Elsa Lanchester
One of the best comedies to come out of Hollywood in the 1950s! Famous silent star (Rogers) gets a new career hosting her old movies on TV. Her famous romantic co-star (Webb) is now a stuffy, distinguished professor at an exclusive University. He and his cold-fish daughter go to New York and try to get an injunction against showing the films. Highlights of the film include the recreation of the old films, spoofing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Gary Cooper in Zorro and The Three Musketeers. Lanchester almost steals the show as the love-starved professor with a crush on Webb.
Fall 2010
Classic English Literature on the Screen!
Catch some classic English lit - in a classic mansion as Movie Time presents screen adaptations of Devotion (a compelling biography about the Bronte sisters), Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities.
Devotion
Wednesday, October 6
1946, 107 min.
with Idsa Lupino, Olivia deHavilland, Paul Henreid, Sidney Greenstreet
Wuthering Heights
Wednesday, October 20
1939. 103 min.
with Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven & Geraldine Fitzgerald
Ginger Rogers
