The Brattleboro Film Festival and Brooks Memorial Library will present free afternoon screenings of nine Hollywood classic screwball comedies from Tinseltown’s Golden Era.
On Wednesday 3 Sept at 2 pm, join us for one of the landmark “screwball” comedies of the 1930s, a film that offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on an erudite hobo residing in the city dump.
Brattleboro Film Festival Advisory Board member Tim Metcalfe and journalist Tom Bedell will host post-screening discussions in the library’s Meeting Room covering a wide range of topics related to the screwball comedy era, filmmaking and Hollywood trivia in general.
The films chosen for the Library’s screwball comedy series have topics that seem as timely today–given recent headlines–as they were in the pre-World War II era in which they were made.
Due to licensing restrictions please call the library at 802-254-5290 to get the titles, or register for the library’s eNews at brookslibraryvt.org to receive a pdf of the flyer for the series. Flyers will also be posted on the Library’s events’ bulletin boards.
The screwball comedy genre came to life during the Great Depression when Americans needed escape and class warfare was at an all-time high. The finest writers, directors and actors of the 20th century created these iconic films that present the issues of the day in a farcical manner while, for the first time in filmmaking history, showcasing women as extraordinary comedians who combine the qualities of being smart, sexy and in charge.
