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Alexander's Ragtime Band

June 5, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
1938/ 105 mins.
Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley

Alice Faye is a singer in Alexander’s Ragtime Band. When they become famous and Alice goes to Broadway, the band breaks up. She becomes a major star and the band falters. Years later the band becomes a huge success. The story is just an excuse to play some 28 Irving Berlin songs. Berlin wrote one new song just for Alice called Now It Can Be Told. The movie was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Original Story, Best Song and Alfred Newman winning Best Score.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the film begins at 7:30 p.m.

Movie Time's Summer Schedule: A Tribute to Alice Faye

MGM had Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy, Universal had Deanna Durbin, RKO had Ginger Rogers but 20th Century-Fox had ALICE FAYE! Alice was Fox’s top star and Darryl F. Zanuck’s favorite star. She began as a singer with Rudy Vallee’s Band. When the band went to Hollywood to make a film of George White’s Scandals, a long running string of Broadway reviews, Alice was hired as a singer. When leading lady Lillian Harvey backed out of the deal, Vallee suggested that Alice be given the role. Thusly, she was a star in her first film and was offered a seven-year contract. At first Fox tried to make her another Jean Harlow. They bleached her already blonde hair and penciled in her eyebrows. When Harlow died, Fox no longer needed an imitation. Director Howard King took Alice under his wing and allowed her natural hair to grow out as well as her natural eyebrows. He then cast her In In Old Chicago and the Alice Faye we know and love was born. Her next film, Alexander's Ragtime Band (June 5th) made her a super-star and Fox’s leading lady in the 1930’s and early 1940’s. Hit after hit followed. Until her retirement from the screen to take care of her daughters, she remained a favorite with audience and critics. We are proud to present one of the truly great musical stars in film history.

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