Double Feature: BALL OF FIRE, 1941, THE AWFUL TRUTH, 1937, January 5, 2012

Thursday, January 5 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: BALL OF FIRE, 1941, ?, 111 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. 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 while researching slang. Two worlds collide as Sugarpuss hides out with Potts and his nerdy crew of lexicographers in Howard Hawks’ wonderfully hilarious romantic comedy, which garnered four Oscar nominations, including Stanwyck for Best Actress and Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe for Best Original Screenplay. 35mm print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. [35mm]
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75th Anniversary! THE AWFUL TRUTH, 1937, Sony Repertory, 92 min. Leo McCarey won a Best Director Oscar for this side-splitting masterpiece in which Irene Dunne and Cary Grant decide to divorce - but darn it, it just doesn’t seem to take. With Ralph Bellamy (in his defining "other man" role), Alex D’Arcy, (Miss) Cecil Cunningham and Joyce Compton, who steals the show with her unique rendition of "Gone With the Wind." [35mm]
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