Anything But Silent
Ernst Lubitsch’s THE MARRIAGE
CIRCLE
Featuring Live
Theater Organ Accompaniment by Ben Model!
Tuesday, March 21st
at 7:30 PM
Members $12 | Public
$17
Restored by The Museum of Modern Art, with the financial support of Matthew and Natalie Bernstein.
Ernst Lubitsch’s marriage movies are sophisticated
and timeless, and one of the best is The Marriage Circle. The film
follows a quintet of professionals and their wives as they engage in a series
of marital missteps. Professor Stock (Adolphe Menjou) and his
wife Mizzi (Marie Prevost) enjoy a relaxed rapport of domestic
tranquility, give or take a hole in his socks. But when Mizzi learns her friend
Charlotte (Florence Vidor) has moved to Vienna with her
husband, everyone finds themselves up to their ears in romantic entanglements. (US, 1924, 85min., Silent, NR | Dir. Ernst
Lubitsch)


Ben Model is one of America’s leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silent films at the New York MoMA since 1984 and the CAC since 2006. Since March 16th, 2020, Ben has been hosting a weekly live-streamed silent film show from his living room, “The Silent Comedy Watch Party.” Click here to visit Ben's YouTube page!
