Anything But Silent
Harry Langdon in Frank Capra's
The Strong Man (1927)
with accompaniment by composer Andrew Simpson
Sunday, March 29th at 12noon
$11 Members | $16 Public
In the solo feature from legendary director Frank Capra, silent comedy star Harry Langdon, plays a young Belgian doughboy who loves a blind American woman he has only known through Red Cross correspondence. Infatuated, he travels to America in search of his sweetheart. Along the way he becomes a carnival strongman's assistant. In a cataclysmic finale, he forced to sub for his drunken boss with hilarious results, and saves the town from a group of ruthless bootleggers. (USA, 1926, 75 Mins., Silent with English Intertitles | Dir. Frank Capra)
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, D.C.