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TESS MAR 8-11 – WHITSELL AUDITORIUM DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski Polanski’s sweeping version of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” has undergone a glorious new digital restoration by...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: The Lady Eve
“A frivolous masterpiece. Like BRINGING UP BABY, THE LADY EVE is a mixture of visual and verbal slapstick and of high artifice and pratfalls. Stanwyck keeps sticking out a sensational leg and Henry...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman series pass
We’ve got some exciting news, folks! For our upcoming Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman series, we’ve created an attractive and inexpensive series pass that gets you into all ten films, including...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Forty Guns
“Sam Fuller’s cracked Arizona gunslinger epic pits new-in-town pacifist marshal Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and his two younger brothers against oppressive rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) and...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Sorry, Wrong Number
One of the key noirs of the late 1940s, the claustrophobic SORRY, WRONG NUMBER puts a murderous spin on the idea of the telephone as sole connector to the outside world. Stanwyck, in an...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Witness to Murder
In this atmospheric noir, Stanwyck is Cheryl Draper, an ordinary woman pushed into extraordinary circumstances. One night, she awakens to see an apparent murder happening across the street. But her...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Ball of Fire
“Barbara Stanwyck is sassy, saucy Sugarpuss O’Shea, a wisecracking nightclub singer on the run from mob kingpins. Gary Cooper is good egg Professor Bertram Potts, a naïve scholar who meets the crooner...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Meet John Doe
“After she’s fired, newspaper reporter Ann Mitchell (Stanwyck) decides to bow out with a bogus story about an unnamed idealist, John Doe, threatening to throw himself off the roof of City Hall on...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Stella Dallas
Stanwyck garnered the first of her four Oscar nominations for her portrayal of Stella, a woman who marries into money in the form of wealthy mill tycoon Stephen Dallas (John Boles). They have a...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: Double Indemnity
In DOUBLE INDEMNITY, arguably Stanwyck’s most famous screen role, she portrays bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson who illicitly takes up with Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a nonchalant insurance...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck Trailer of the Day: There’s Always Tomorrow
One of Douglas Sirk’s least discussed and most underappreciated melodramas, THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW features Stanwyck opposite DOUBLE INDEMNITY costar Fred MacMurray, with entirely different results....
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