Movies on the Green 2010

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The Mary Riempa Ross Media Arts Center is sponsoring Movies on the Green outside of Kimball Recital Hall at 12th and R streets.  This year a selection of comedies will be presented.  The movies are free and open to the pubic.  Show time is at dusk, approximately 9 p.m.  If a screening is cancelled due to inclement weather, the film will be shown the next day (Friday) at the same time.  A schedule of films can be found below. 

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934; 1 hour, 45 minutes)
Thursday, July 29
Director Frank Capra’s legendary romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable as a runaway heiress and a hard-bitten reporter who fall in love while traveling across the country.
Showing with the short film THE FLOORWALKER (1916, 30 minutes) starring Charlie Chaplin

WAY OUT WEST (1936; 1 hour, 5 minutes)
Thursday, August 5
Featuring some of the duo’s funniest comic routines, WAY OUT WEST stars Laurel & Hardy as prospectors on their way to the western town of Brushwood Gulch on a top-secret mission to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine.
Showing with the short films ONE A.M. (1916, 34 Minutes) starring Charlie Chaplin & PEST FROM THE WEST (1939, 20 Minutes) starring Buster Keaton

TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER (1966; 1 hour, 41 minutes)
Thursday, August 12
A Spanish nobleman gets mixed up with cowboys and Indians in this offbeat western comedy starring Dean Martin and Rosemary Forsyth.
Showing with the short film THE DENTIST (1932, 21 minutes) starring W.C. Fields

THE GRADUATE (1967; 1 hour, 45 minutes)
Thursday, August 19
Director Mike Nichols’ satirical coming-of-age comedy follows recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock as he is seduced by Mrs. Robinson and then falls for her daughter. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.
Showing with the short film COPS (1922, 18 minutes) starring Buster Keaton

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