Trouble in Paradise: Pre-Code Hollywood
7/2/05 to 8/7/05
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, July 9
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Past Films
Design for Living
Saturday, July 2 20:45Lubitsch's audacious adaptation of Noel Coward's play wickedly installs American expats Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper, and Fredric March in a Parisian garret, where they're hard pressed to keep their minds on their art.View DetailsTrouble in Paradise
Saturday, July 2 19:00Jewel thieves Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins take millionaire Kay Francis for a ride, with romantic complications, in Ernst Lubitsch's exquisite gem of a comedy. "A nearly perfect film."-New YorkerView DetailsBlessed Event
Sunday, July 3 17:30Lee Tracy delivers his greatest performance as a wisecracking, Walter Winchell-like gossip columnist in this breathless satire, also featuring Dick Powell as a comically insipid crooner. "Quick and breezy and very likable."-Pauline KaelView DetailsMe and My Gal
Thursday, July 7 20:55Sparks fly between Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett in Raoul Walsh's rough-and-ready waterfront comedy.View DetailsBlood Money
Thursday, July 7 19:30Bail bondsman George Bancroft navigates between crooks and cops in a fast-moving crime thriller.View DetailsThe Animal Kingdom (Free Screening!)
Thursday, July 7 17:30Wife and mistress reverse roles in this sophisticated comedy starring Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, and Ann Harding.View DetailsDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Saturday, July 9 20:25Rouben Mamoulian's visually virtuosic adaptation fully develops the erotic implications of Stevenson's story, with Fredric March as the good Doctor and monstrous Mr., and Miriam Hopkins the willing victim.View DetailsFreaks
Saturday, July 9 19:00Tod Browning's "highly unusual attraction" teeters between empathy and exploitation. With its cast of outcasts, seamy sideshow setting, and bizarre revenge plot, it "remains one of the most disturbing films ever made."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsHeat Lightning
Thursday, July 14 20:50Aline MacMahon, a mannish mechanic at a desolate motor camp, receives an unwelcome reminder of her romantic past in this tense ensemble drama that prefigures The Petrified Forest. Also starring Ann Dvorak.View DetailsFemale
Thursday, July 14 19:30Trucking company chief Ruth Chatterton makes special demands of her handsome male employees in this brisk, entertaining twist on the old businesswoman-tamed-by-love story.View DetailsBombshell
Saturday, July 16 19:00Jean Harlow mocks her own sexpot persona, playing a movie star relentlessly harassed by unscrupulous publicist Lee Tracy, in this smart Hollywood satire packed with snappy dialogue and studio in-jokes.View DetailsRed Headed Woman
Saturday, July 16 20:55Scripted by Anita Loos, this comedy-melodrama has Harlow sleeping her way up the social ladder with an amoral audacity that's still astonishing. "Harlow at her most hilariously wanton."-Village VoiceView DetailsI'm No Angel
Sunday, July 17 17:30"Mae West is at the peak of her insinuatingly wisecracking form as a carnival chanteuse and lion tamer....If West had never said anything else except 'Beulah, peel me a grape,' she would still rank as one of the immortals of American language."-Village VoiceView DetailsLady Killer
Thursday, July 21 21:00When things get too hot back East, N.Y. mobster James Cagney heads for L.A., where his criminal talents find a perfect expression in the studio system. "A sly satire of Hollywood and the gangster genre."-Time OutView DetailsSkyscraper Souls
Thursday, July 21 19:00Financier Warren William presides over a hundred-story skyscraper, ruthlessly manipulating money and lives, in this vertical version of Grand Hotel. Winsome Maureen O'Sullivan is among William's victims.View DetailsNight Nurse
Saturday, July 23 21:00Introduced by Michael Mashon. Stanwyck and Joan Blondell expose Hippocratic hypocrisy-and plenty of skin-in this medical melodrama, also featuring Clark Gable as the heavy.View DetailsBaby Face
Saturday, July 23 19:00Introduced by Michael Mashon. A new print of the notorious Barbara Stanwyck class-climbing saga restores censored scenes not seen since 1933. "Even the cut version is a jaw-dropper; with its full five minutes of sleaze restored, it has to be seen to be not quite believed."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsTwo Seconds
Sunday, July 24 19:25Introduced by Michael Mashon. Condemned criminal Edward G. Robinson recalls his descent into vice in this vividly stylized proto-noir.View DetailsEmployees' Entrance
Sunday, July 24 17:30Introduced by Michael Mashon. Warren William gives a classic performance as a hard-nosed department store manager.View DetailsThe Mayor of Hell
Thursday, July 28 21:05Racketeer James Cagney transforms a brutal reform school into a juvenile utopia in this odd and compelling hybrid of prison drama, gangster comedy, and social problem film.View DetailsHeroes for Sale
Thursday, July 28 19:30William Wellman's hard-hitting portrayal of pre-New Deal America addresses unemployment, urban alienation, and mob violence. "An essential Depression document."-Scott SimmonView DetailsMidnight Mary
Saturday, July 30 21:00Lovely Loretta Young struggles to escape from the wrong side of the tracks and the wrong side of the law, with dubious assistance from Ricardo Cortez and Franchot Tone, in William Wellman's elegantly constructed melodrama.View DetailsBlonde Venus
Saturday, July 30 19:00Josef Von Sternberg's luminous vision of America has Marlene Dietrich singing "Hot Voodoo" in a gorilla suit. Need we say more?View DetailsGold Diggers of 1933
Sunday, July 31 17:45Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell in an essential Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Production numbers like "We're In the Money" and "My Forgotten Man" back-handedly inject social relevance into the musical fantasy world.View DetailsGirls About Town
Sunday, August 7 17:30Kay Francis and Joel McCrea star, but supporting players Lilyan Tashman and Eugene Pallette really sparkle in George Cukor's lively romp about gold-digging women and the men they mine.View Details
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