Sunday Afternoons at the Paradise
Join TFS for Season 78’s Sunday Matinée Series generously sponsored by our good friend, author and documentary filmmaker, Mr. Don Hutchison.
Please save this date and visit us regularly for further updates on the films, added shorts, and to purchase tickets:
Sunday, March 29 @ 1:30 p.m. Purchase your tickets here!
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Director: Garson Kanin. Run Time: 88 min. Starring: Ann Shoemaker, Cary Grant, Gail Patrick, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott
A funny thing happens to newlywed Nick Arden on his way to the honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife who was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead. All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round!
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne reunite in this fast, fizzy screwball comedy about a woman presumed dead who returns home to find her husband newly remarried. Packed with mistaken identities, romantic chaos, and razor-sharp timing, My Favorite Wife shows why Grant and Dunne were one of classic Hollywood’s most beloved comedy pairings.
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The Awful Truth (1937)
Director: Leo McCarey. Run Time: 91 min. Starring: Alexander D’Arcy, Cary Grant, Cecil Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other’s attempts to find new romance.
One of the great screwball comedies of the 1930s, The Awful Truth stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a divorcing couple who can’t quite stay out of each other’s lives. Elegant, witty, and endlessly charming, the film crackles with verbal sparring and comic invention – and cemented Grant and Dunne as a perfectly matched on-screen duo.
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Sunday, April 26 @ 1:00 p.m. Purchase your tickets here!
The Lost World (1925)
Director: Harry O. Hoyt. Run Time: 104 min. Starring: Alma Bennett, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Before King Kong, and decades before CGI, Silent epic The Lost World stunned audiences with lifelike dinosaurs created through groundbreaking stop-motion animation by Willis O’Brien. This thrilling adventure – based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – follows an expedition to a remote plateau where prehistoric creatures still roam, delivering spectacle, suspense, and one of the most important technical leaps in early cinematic history!
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King Kong (1933)
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper. Run Time: 104 min. Starring: Bruce Cabot, Fay Wray, Frank Reicher, Robert Armstrong, Victor Wong
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
A giant ape, a mysterious island, and one of the most iconic climaxes in movie history – King Kong remains as thrilling as ever! Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and animated by stop-motion pioneer Willis O’Brien, this 1933 classic combines adventure, spectacle, and unexpected emotion in a film that still towers over the screen nearly a century later.
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Sunday Afternoons at the Paradise
Join TFS for Season 78’s Sunday Matinée Series generously sponsored by our good friend, author and documentary filmmaker, Mr. Don Hutchison. Please save this date and visit us regularly...
