Anything
But Silent
SO'S YOUR OLD MAN
Live Piano Accompaniment by Andrew Simpson
Thursday, December 17 at 7:30pm
$10 Members | $15 Public
W.C. Fields stars in this hilarious silent
comedy about a brilliant inventor who can’t get any respect from his own family
until a princess turns the tables on them
W.C. Fields rose to fame as a vaudeville juggler, but his movies forever
established him as a duplicitous, bibulous, hilariously foul-spirited idler
who'd steal candy from a baby. In So’s
Your Old Man, Fields is a put-upon father who triumphantly invents
unbreakable windshield glass. But instead of acclaim, he shames his family
until a princess comes to his rescue. This is a very rare screening from a
comic master known mainly for his work in the talking cinema.
(USA, 1926, 73 min. | Dir. Gregory La Cava | Cast: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce,
Charles Buddy Rogers | 35mm print from Library of Congress)
Andrew
Simpson
is Resident Film Accompanist for the National Gallery of Art and regularly
featured accompanist for the Library of Congress. He has performed
original film scores at the Kennedy Center, AFI Silver Theater, New York Public
Library at Lincoln Center, the Giornate del Cinema Muto, and many other
venues. A composer, pianist, and organist, Simpson is professor and head
of the division of Theory and Composition at the Benjamin T. Rome School of
Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
