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Film Club. Screwball comedy and the feminine mystique.

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6:30 p.m. $5 per Person

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  1. Film Club Screwball comedy and the feminine mystique Our host, Steve Reginald, will introduce the film giving background information before the screening, with discussion afterward. Reginald is a freelance writer/editor and popular instructor at Facets Film School in Chicago. He was also the original host of Meet Me at the Movies. The screwball comedy took shape in the early 1930s after the Production Code was introduced. The new censorship that Hollywood imposed on itself created a new type of comedy filled with sharp, rapid-fire dialogue delivered by “fast-talking dames” as described by film historian Marie DiBattista. Audiences were delighted by these smart wise-cracking women portrayed on screen by icons of the genre like Irene Dunne, Barbara Stanwyck and Carole Lombard. It Happened One Night (1934) When her father threatens to annul her marriage to an oily fortune hunter, heiress Ellie Andrews hops on a cross-country bus to New York. On the bus she meets gruff newspaper reporter Peter Warne. He agrees to help Ellie on her journey in exchange for exclusive rights to her story. When they find themselves falling in love, things get complicated and hilarious. This classic won five Academy Awards including Best Picture.. September 10, 2013 6:30 p.m. $5 per Person 1550 S. State St Chicago, IL 60616 312.674.0001 “THE VENUE 1550”

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