Arts & Entertainment
'Some Like it Hot' Launches Free Summer Films at Wesleyan
This four-week Hollywood Icon movie series on Middletown's campus featuring Marilyn Monroe opens with the American Film Institute's greatest American comedy film of all time.
Wesleyan University's Center for Film Studies opens its four-part free summer movie series, Hollywood Icons: Marilyn Monroe, Tuesday with the American Film Institute's greatest American comedy film of all time.
SOME LIKE IT HOT
July 9, 1959. Director Billy Wilder. With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon. 120 min. In what AFI has ranked as the funniest film ever made, two down-on-their-luck musicians (played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) accidently witness a murder and go on the run from the mob. What better place to hide than in an all-female jazz band? There they meet Sugar, played by Monroe. As the music starts thumping and the gin starts pouring, the cross-dressing buddies figure out that maybe’s they’ve bit off more than they can chew…
With special introduction by Ed Herrmann, actor and film historian.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
July 16, 1953. Director Howard Hawks. With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn. 91 min.In this adaptation of the stage musical, Jane Russell and Monroe play lounge singers on a cruise ship. While Monroe’s Lorelei Lee is after men with money, Russell’s Dorothy Shaw is searching for true love. During the cross-Atlantic voyage, the two women scheme and sing their way around the ship.
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THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
July 23, 1955. Director Billy Wilder. With Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes. 105 min.
Marilyn Monroe shines in this romantic comedy, in which she plays a model and sometimes actress who is the object of attraction to straight-laced publishing man Richard (Tom Ewell), a man who, in his seventh year of marriage, is starting to feel a pull away from his wife.
With introduction by Marc Longenecker, programming and technical manager of the Film Studies Department.
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RIVER OF NO RETURN
July 30, 1954. Director Otto Preminger. With Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun. 91 min.Set in the Pacific Northwest in 1875, this Western stars Marilyn Monroe as Kay, a saloon singer who has been caring for a young boy, Mark. Mark’s father, the rough Matt Calder (played by Robert Mitchum) comes to fetch him. A wild adventures ensues.
With introduction by Marc Longenecker, programming and technical manager of the Film Studies Department.All showings are at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Film Studies. Showings are free and open to the public. The Rick Nicita Gallery will be open from 6:30 to 7:25 p.m. before each of the screenings.
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