The Florida Theatre

[TheCat]

Summer Movie Classics begins this Sunday at Florida Theatre. The first movie up is From Russia with Love.




Tickets are $7.50
http://floridatheatre.com/event/summer-movie-classics-from-russia-love/

[tufsu1]

Bond...James Bond

[TheCat]

Indeed.

Favorite line from the trailer:

"They dance for him. They yearn for him. THey die for him. "
http://www.youtube.com/v/OFvP1aNfNaM

Here's the opening sequence of From Russia with Love.

http://www.youtube.com/v/aOw2hTBHMvA

[TheCat]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof tomorrow @ 2PM at The Florida Theatre

http://www.youtube.com/v/rDk0JtQHc0A

[TheCat]

The Gay Divorcee is on for tomorrow at 2PM at The Florida Theatre. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are the leads in this movie...made in 1934! 

Plot:

Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) arrives in England to seek a divorce from her geologist husband Cyril (William Austin), whom she hasn't seen for several years. Under the guidance of her domineering and much-married aunt Hortense (Alice Brady), she consults a bumbling and less-than-competent lawyer Egbert Fitzgerald (Edward Everett Horton), who happens to be one of Hortense's previous fiancés. He arranges for her to spend a night at a seaside hotel and to be caught in an adulterous relationship, for which purpose he hires a professional co-respondent, Rodolfo Tonetti (Erik Rhodes). But Egbert forgets to arrange for private detectives to "catch" the couple.

By coincidence, Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) an American dancer and friend of Egbert's, who briefly met Mimi on her arrival in England, and who is now besotted with her, also arrives at the hotel, only to be mistaken by Mimi for the co-respondent she has been waiting for. While they are in Mimi's bedroom, Tonetti arrives, revealing the truth, and holds them "prisoner" to suit the plan. They contrive to escape and dance the night away.

In the morning, after several mistakes with the waiter, Cyril Glossop (William Austin) arrives at the door, so Guy hides in the next room, while Mimi and Tonetti give a show of being lovers. When Cyril doesn't believe them, Guy comes out and embraces Mimi in an attempt to convince him that he is her lover, but to no avail. It is an unwitting waiter (Eric Blore) who finally clears the whole thing up by revealing that Cyril himself is an adulterer, thus clearing the way for Mimi to get a divorce and marry Guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Divorcee#Plot

Interview with Ginger Rogers.

http://www.youtube.com/v/wrYrPxQWw2g

Fred Astaire receiving a lifetime achievement award in 1981:

http://www.youtube.com/v/O9WT9fmVi4U?

[TheCat]

Marlon Brando's "On the Waterfront" plays at The Florida Theatre tomorrow at 2pm.

"I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody..." -





Brando won an Academy Award for his performance.

http://www.youtube.com/v/I_VJtDZBttY

Tickets on link:

http://floridatheatre.com/event/summer-movie-classics-on-waterfront/

[TheCat]

40 minute countdown until "On the Waterfront" begins at Florida Theatre.


http://www.youtube.com/v/xSImMMMf5nA

[HisBuffPVB]

Florida Theatre was a great place to take a date in the late 50s, $1.25 or so admission, popcorn with butter. .25 cents. Ushers to show you to your seat. One night some boys from Landon threw a duck stolen from the San Jose duck pond off the balcony, the duck was incontinent and caused quite a mess and a ruckus. Boys were never caught, but I know who they were. Today, one is a Doctor, one owns an engineering company, one owns an insurance agency, and one was VP of a major local Corp. before retiring. I think I will write them and make them make a donation to the theatre. After all, the duck they brought to the theatre, made a major donation as it floated down from the balcony.

[TheCat]

Florida Theatre was a great place to take a date in the late 50s, $1.25 or so admission, popcorn with butter. .25 cents. Ushers to show you to your seat. One night some boys from Landon threw a duck stolen from the San Jose duck pond off the balcony, the duck was incontinent and caused quite a mess and a ruckus. Boys were never caught, but I know who they were. Today, one is a Doctor, one owns an engineering company, one owns an insurance agency, and one was VP of a major local Corp. before retiring. I think I will write them and make them make a donation to the theatre. After all, the duck they brought to the theatre, made a major donation as it floated down from the balcony.

+1.

[TheCat]

Tomorrow the infamous American Graffiti plays at the Florida Theatre @ 2PM.

I have two free tickets to give away.

How about we do a simple raffle, of sorts?

Respond in this thread with a fact about the movie to be entered into a virtual raffle.

Let's say 12AM is the deadline. If you are the winner you'll have a Private Message by 9AM tomorrow.

This is less about the tickets and more about the fun facts. Fun facts! 

Here's mine...though I want be in the drawing:

American Graffiti was nominated for 5 Academy Awards

1) Best Picture
2) Best Director (which was George Lucas)
3) Best Original Screenplay
4) Best Supporting Actress
5) Best Film Editing


http://www.youtube.com/v/z2OoxzYqgNY

[TheCat]

Tomorrow at 2 PM...The Great Escape.

http://www.youtube.com/v/xkwmIDx9RwQ

[TheCat]

Bye Bye Birdie this Sunday @ 2PM.

http://www.youtube.com/v/1t3cBTb3xPc

[TheCat]

Today at 2pm at the Florida Theatre: Charade with Carey Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

http://www.youtube.com/v/QmgPw34Xm3A