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Domy Books Thursday Movie Nights - October Theme: Screwball Comedies

Presented by Domy Books at Domy Books

October 7-October 28, 2010

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Domy Books, in association with Domy Films, is pleased to present, Thursday Movie Nights, curated by Film Monitor. October Theme of the Month Screwball Comedies. 

Schedule of Films:

October 7 - Screwball Comedies
It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra

Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy. Along the way she meets a crusty newspaperman (Clark Gable), who's just been sacked and -- unbeknownst to Ellie -- plans to sell her story to get his job back. But a string of zany misadventures leads them to realize they're madly -- if reluctantly -- in love. It Happened One Night swept every major Academy Award. (Excerpt from Netflix)

1934, 830-1030pm, free admission
RUNTIME: 105 min

October 14 - Screwball Comedies
His Girl Friday (pictured)
by Howard Hawks

Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) is about to get hitched to dull insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) -- that's if her ex-husband, ruthless newspaper publisher Walter Burns (Cary Grant), doesn't succeed in winning her back in this battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy. Meanwhile, reporters salivating for the scoop on a local voting conspiracy is just a minor distraction as Burns pulls out all the stops for the woman he loves. (Excerpt from Netflix)

1940, 830-1030pm, free admission
RUNTIME: 92 min

October 21 - Screwball Comedies
The Shop Around the Corner
by Ernst Lubitsch

“Matuschek’s” is the gift shop around the corner. Among the staff is Alfred Kralik (James Stewart), a likable young man who’s in love with a woman he has never met and whose name he doesn’t even know (their “romance” has been conducted through a post office box). When Klara Novak comes to work as a clerk in the shop, the sparks begin to fly: she and Alfred can’t stand each other. Of course, what neither knows is that Klara is the woman Alfred has been romancing through the mail! (Excerpt from IMDB)

1940, 830-1030pm, free admission
RUNTIME: 99 min

October 28 - Screwball Comedies
The Palm Beach Story
by Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges helmed this screwball comedy about Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), a woman who'll do anything to help her struggling architect spouse, Tom (Joel McCrea), succeed. When she realizes Tom will never strike it rich, Gerry decides to divorce him, wed a wealthy man and finance Tom's projects -- so she heads to Palm Beach, Fla., where she tries to land eccentric billionaire John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee). (Excerpt from Netflix)

1942, 830-1030pm, free admission
RUNTIME: 88 min