TWENTIETH CENTURY
January 26, 2001
7:30 p.m. Film screening | Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Free and Open to the Public)
(American, 1934, 91 minutes, b&w, 35mm)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Rosco Karns
TWENTIETH CENTURY was the prototype for the screwball comedies of the 30s. It also propelled Carole Lombard into a star comedienne. An egomaniacal Broadway producer turns a chorus girl into a star only to have her turn her back on him and force him into bankruptcy. The film is based on the Broadway play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
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