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Christopher Perry Presents
Safety Last
Wednesday, January 27, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy
Christopher Perry’s
presentation
of the 1923 silent movie classic,
Safety
Last,
Harold Lloyd’s most famous
comedy and one of the most thrilling
motion pictures from the silent era.
In this film, Lloyd climbs a high rise
building in downtown Los Angeles
without the use of stuntmen or special
effects. You have to see it to believe it!
The show will include live music
and sound effects by the Photoplay
Ensemble led by the “Mad Doctor of
Sound Effects,”
Henry Lozano.
These
audio artists specialize in period
correct music and sound effects for
silent movie presentations. Christopher
Perry,musical director for thePhotoplay
Ensemble, provides the arrangement
of the scores for these early movies
by using the original movie music cues
written for silent films.
Stacy Davies Presents
Fast-Talking Dames of the 1930s
Journalist and film scholar
Stacy Davies
will introduce you to some fast-talking
dames. Coming of age during the
Depression, the dame – a woman of
lively wit and brash speech – epitomized
a new style of self-reliant, articulate
womanhood. Dames were quick on the
uptake, and their snappy repartee and
vivid colloquialisms made them verbal
muses at a time when Americans were
reinventing language and looking for
uplift in dark times.
Stage Door
(1937)
Monday, March 7, 2 – 4 p.m.
Starring Katharine Hepburn and
Ginger Rogers
Design for Living
(1933)
Monday, March 21, 2 – 4 p.m.
Starring Miriam Hopkins,
Fredric March, and Gary Cooper
Bringing Up Baby
(1938)
Monday, March 28, 2 – 4 p.m.
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant,
and an adoring leopard named Baby
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Presented by the Rancho Mirage Public Library Foundation
©2011 The Harold Lloyd Trust