Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Saturday July 1, 2006
at
8:30pm
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Screwball Classics of the 30s and 40s - Trouble in Paradise (1932)
One Colorado’s annual outdoor film festival presents Screwball Classics of the 30s and 40s, great comedies that made America laugh during the late Depression and the early years of World War II. Today, these movies represent a golden age of Hollywood, with many of the leading actors and directors reading like a who’s who of cinematic history: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn and William Powell, along with directors Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch and Preston Sturges. Screwball comedies embodied the rebellious and irreverent spirit of a nation that faced the breadlines and reduced prospects of the1930s, and needed as many laughs as possible to get through.
Rising out of difficult times, Screwball comedies spoke to the unbridled optimism of a nation that refused to be held down, and which foresaw better days ahead. Plots often contrasted the decadent rich with streetwise men and women whose down-to-earth good sense wins the day. Social tensions were deftly transformed into humor, and everyone had the opportunity to laugh at themselves. Films like It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey and The Palm Beach Story blended eccentric and whimsical stories with often brilliant, fast-paced dialogue that skewered social conventions of the day.
Screwball Classics of the 30s and 40s runs every Friday and Saturday night in July. Films are projected outdoors in the One Colorado Courtyard in the heart of Old Pasadena, located in the block between Fair Oaks and Colorado, Delacey and Union. All screenings are free and open to the public. Free seating is provided.
This popular film series, now in its eighth year, has in previous seasons featured salutes to Alfred Hitchcock, early James Bond, Marilyn Monroe, and Dance Classics from the 30s to the 50s.
Saturday, July 1 -- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Starring Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins & Herbert Marshall
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
In this sparkling comedy, high-class thief Gaston Monescu (Marshall) and scam artist Lily (Hopkins) pickpocket their way into each other’s affections. They combine their talents to bilk the widow Colet (Kay Francis) of her perfume company fortune. The enterprise is jeopardized when Monescu falls for Colet, and he must choose between marriage and a fast getaway…
Date : Saturday, July 1, 2006
Time : 8:30pm
Open to : Public
Contact: One Colorado
Updated : Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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