Hitch Summer: Free Vertigo in Maine
The Colonial's Centennial Celebration
continues with the FREE Movie Series!
Since a 100th Anniversary is such a substantial one deserving a substantial celebration, we continue to honor the 100 years of film shown on the Colonial site by sampling 100 years of movies. Scheduling them so that in the passing of the year we will feel the passing of the century, June brings us to the year 1957. Since our first sampling, "Movies of 1912+", back in January we have sure seen some changes in movies and life as the century unfolded!
Here's what the world was up to around 1957...
1956 - Andrea Doria sinks off Nantucket, oral polio vaccine developed, Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1957 -Dick Clark launches American Bandstand, Army paratroopers with fixed bayonets guard 9 negro students attending first day of classes at Little Rock High, Bobby Fischer is chess champ at 13, Humphrey Bogart dead at 58, USSR launches first earth satellites - Sputnik I & II, Ford introduces the Edsel, NY Giants baseball team moves to San Francisco, Dr. Seuss writes "The Cat in the Hat".
1958 - Alaska approved for statehood, Beat & Beatnik become words, Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NYC, Hula-Hoop introduced, Fidel Castro takes over Cuba.
1957 -Dick Clark launches American Bandstand, Army paratroopers with fixed bayonets guard 9 negro students attending first day of classes at Little Rock High, Bobby Fischer is chess champ at 13, Humphrey Bogart dead at 58, USSR launches first earth satellites - Sputnik I & II, Ford introduces the Edsel, NY Giants baseball team moves to San Francisco, Dr. Seuss writes "The Cat in the Hat".
1958 - Alaska approved for statehood, Beat & Beatnik become words, Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NYC, Hula-Hoop introduced, Fidel Castro takes over Cuba.
Here's some of the movies the world then saw...
Vertigo (1958 - 2hr.10min. - PG) Alfred Hitchcock's crowning achievement! Complex & haunting, this tale features a bewitching Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart at his darkest & Barbara BelGeddes.
Love in the Afternoon (1957 - 2hr. 10min - not rated) Witty treat from Billy Wilder, directing Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper in old fashioned May-December romance set in a misty Paris.
Both of the above play on Monday, June 4...the first starts at 5:20, the second at 5:30.
Love in the Afternoon (1957 - 2hr. 10min - not rated) Witty treat from Billy Wilder, directing Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper in old fashioned May-December romance set in a misty Paris.
Both of the above play on Monday, June 4...the first starts at 5:20, the second at 5:30.
June's FREE showings of "Movies of 1957+" will be featured at different times from those in previous months because for the summer months we offer regular current movies 7 evenings a week in the 7:00-ish time slot.
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