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EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (1927)
Cinematographer George Webber, director Allan Dwan and star George O'Brien during production of East Side, West Side. The film will receive its first Los Angeles area screening in over 80 years. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Film Foundation. |
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PRACTICALLY YOURS (1944)
Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert made many fine pictures together, but this is one of their lesser-known pairings. It's a World War II romantic comedy about a secretary who invents a romance with a soldier who is killed in action--or is he? . |
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THE ACTIVE LIFE OF DOLLY OF THE DAILIES (1914) Episode 5: "The Chinese Fan"
Mary Fuller plays the ace reporter who always gets her scoop. Newly restored by the Academy Film Archive with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.. |
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HANDS UP! (1926)
The classic silent comedy starring Raymond Griffith will be screened at this years show. In 1926, "Life" magazine critic Robert E. Sherwood noted that ". . . at this particular moment . . . Raymond Griffith leads all comedians in point of ingenuity, imaginativeness, and originality." |
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STORMY WEATHER (1943)
All star musical featuring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, Fats Waller and a host of others |
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BEAUTY'S WORTH (1922)
Marion Davies stars in this film directed by Robert G. Vignola. |
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ONE WILD NIGHT (1938)
starring Dick Baldwin, as a criminologist fresh out of school, and June Lang, as an eager reporter, who team up to thwart kidnappers! |
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STRONGER THAN DEATH (1920)
Alla Nazimova will be seen in this film newly restored by the George Eastman House with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. |
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THE COWARD (1915)
Charles Ray (left) and Frank Keenan star in the 1915 Ince-Triangle-KayBee production of The Coward, a tale of the American Civil War. This film was preserved through Treasures of American Film Archives, a millennium project organized by the National Film Preservation Foundation and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Film Foundation. |
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SHE HAD TO EAT (1937)
Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson and Eugene Pallette star in this depression-era comedy that combines elements of CITY LIGHTS and THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, with some soak-the-rich con games along the way. |
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MOON OVER HER SHOULDER (1941)
Lynn Bari, Dan Dailey, John Sutton and Alan Mowbray star in this delightful screwball comedy about and bored wife of an author who has written a popular guide to successful marriage. She finds adventure on the high seas when she is "rescued" by a fishing boat captain whom mistakenly believes she intends to end it all! |
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FINDERS KEEPERS (1928)
starring Laura La Plante, John Harron and Jack Oakie. Long-unseen and newly restored, La Plante considered this her favorite among all her films. She plays the daughter of an army colonel who feels it is her duty to entertain all the troops...until that special soldier comes along. |
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BLAZING DAYS (1927)
Fred Humes stars in this early Western effort by future Oscar-winning director William Wyler. |
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LE BONHEUR (1934)
The classic 1934 French film about a sneak thief who falls in love with a movie star, Le Bonheur, directed by the great Marcel L'Herbier and starring Charles Boyer, Gaby Morlay and Michel Simon. |
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Also among the feature films tentatively scheduled for Cinecon 47 are:
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID (1941)
What would Cinecon be without one of those great "B" musicals from the 40s we've come to expect? Swindling in the Lonely Hearts racket is the excuse for songs and dances by the Andrews Sisters and the Jivin' Jacks and Jills.
LET'S FALL IN LOVE (1933)
Ann Sothern stars with Edmund Lowe in a tale of Hollywood in which a circus side-show worker passes as a Swedish movie star.
GLAMOUR BOY (1941)
Former Cinecon honoree Jackie Cooper plays a washed up child star hired by his former studio to coach the new kid, Darryl Hickman, who will star in a remake of Jackie's great hit, SKIPPY!
THE BRASHER DOUBLOON (1947)
George Montgomery takes on the role of Raymond Chandler's detective hero, Phillip Marlowe, in this dark tale about a stolen coin and a woman afraid to be touched. Directed by John Brahm, who also megged the noir thrillers HANGOVER SQUARE and THE LODGER.
COLLEGE RHYTHM (1934)
"Shake your shoulders, dance around a bit...that's College Rhythm." Boy-oh-boy, what a cast! Joe Penner, Ned Sparks, Lynn Overman, Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, Mary Brian, Franklyn Pangborn, Lanny Ross, Helen Mack and Goo-Goo the duck--"Ya wanna buy a duck?"--in a musical Melange with songs by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, dance numbers by LeRoy Prinz, and a bevy of chorus girls. Need we mention that there's also a big football game with no suspense whatever about who's gonna win.
As always films are listed here pending final clearance and are subject to change.
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