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Victoria announces summer films
The Victoria Theatre Association has announced its 2009 Michelob Ultra Cool Film Series.
Thirteen mostly classic Hollywood films from the silent era to the 1970s and beyond will be shown at the Victoria Theatre on weekends in July and August.
Here’s the schedule:
July 3-5: “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), with Marilyn Monroe as the hot new neighbor and Tom Ewell as a married man whose family has gone to the country.
July 10-12: “White Christmas” (1954), with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a song and dance due who fall for a sister act played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
July 17-19: “The Sting” (1973). Robert Redford plays a small-time grifter and Paul Newman a master con man who team up to scam a crime boss.
July 24-26: Jimmy Stewart Weekend — “Vertigo” (1958), the Hitchcock thriller with Kim Novak on Friday; “Harvey” (1950), with Stewart as a man accompanied by an invisible 6-foot rabbit on Saturday, and “The Philadelphia Story” (1950), with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, showing Sunday.
July 31-Aug. 2: “An American in Paris” (1951). Gene Kelly is a struggling American painter in France, but man can he dance. So can Leslie Caron in this great musical.
Aug. 7-9: “To Kill a Mockingbird”: (1962). The classic novel brought to the screen with Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall and others.
Aug. 14-16: “Funny Girl” (1968): Barbra Streisand with Omar Sharif in the musical about Fanny Brice.
Aug. 21-23: “American Graffiti” (1973): The teen coming-of-age classic directed by George Lucas takes us to the last night of summer in 1962.
Aug. 28-30: “Phantom of the Opera” Weekend: Three versions in three days. 1. the 1925 silent film with Lon Chaney (to live organ accompaniment), the 1943 Claude Rains version and the 2005 film musical.
How to Go
What: 2009 Michelob Ultra Cool Film Series.
When: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, July 3-Aug. 20.
Where: Victoria Theatre, First and Main streets.
Tickets: $4.75 for single seats, $24 for a 10-ticket pass. Passes go on sale May 5. Free soda and popcorn in the lobby before the show and organ concerts before the cartoon.
Call: (937) 228-3630, (888) 228-3630, or made reservations online at www.ticketcenterstage.com. For more information, go to www.victoriatheatre.com.
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