SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS 2:00, 6:00
When lumberjack Howard Keel takes frontierswoman Jane Powell as his wife, she takes on the challenge of taming her brothers-in-laws’ backwoods ways. The Gene dePaul/Johnny Mercer score won an Academy Award and Michael Kidd’s energetic choreography is among the most athletic and exciting ever put on film. After delivering one of the screen's most exuberant musicals—perfectly integrating song, dance, and story—this would be the last musical Donen would helm solo for MGM. (1954, 102 min, 35mm ‘Scope)
FUNNY FACE 4:00, 8:00
In this complete reworking of the 1927 stage musical in which he also starred, Fred Astaire is high fashion photographer Dick Avery and Audrey Hepburn is shy bookstore clerk Jo Stockton, whom he discovers during a shoot and takes to Paris, transforming her into a top model. Gliding on a wonderful George and Ira Gershwin score, this lush, romantic musical is the purest expression of Donen’s inimitable style—simultaneously joyful and elegant, sentimental, and funny. World class photographer Richard Avedon, and his wife Doe Avedon, are the real-life inspiration for this ?lm. (1957, 105 min, DCP)