Anything Silent But Silent
Clara Bow in GET YOUR MAN
35mm Screening
+ the recently rediscovered short film THE PILL POUNDER
Friday, April 26th at 7:30 PM
With live accompaniment by Ben Model
$18 Public | $12 Members | Free for Young Film Fan Members!
The irresistible Clara Bow was at the height of her popularity when she
made this outstanding comedy with Hollywood’s leading female director, Dorothy
Arzner. Set in Paris, Clara Bow plays Nancy Worthington, an American tourist,
who meets the noble Robert de Bellecontre when they are accidentally locked in
a museum overnight. And despite Robert’s arranged engagement to the
aristocratic Simone de Villeneuve, they are in love by the next morning. When
she learns of the engagement, she plots and schemes to get her man! Track
#16 on Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department, is titled
“Clara Bow” in honor of the legendary “it girl”. (USA, 1927, 63 mins, 35mm,
Silent with English intertitles | Dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Also
included in the program will be a screening of the recently rediscovered short
film 'The Pill Pounder' - which has previous been lost for over 100 years!
In 'The Pill Pounder' a druggist who hosts a “card parlor” in the back room of his pharmacy for gambling. Aside from cheating at a poker game, the druggist mixes up labels on his medicine bottles and mistakenly believes he has administered poison to his customers, frightening a 17-year-old Clara Bow.
