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32ND ANNUAL SILENT FILM BENEFIT

Saturday, May 18 at 1:00 PM

AVALON CASINO THEATRE

Colleen Moore in

“Why Be Good?”

Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 1:00 PM
Avalon Casino Theatre

Avalon Casino Theatre
217 Metropole Avenue
Avalon, CA 90704
Tel: 310-510-0179

Member Pre-Performance Program 12:00 pm
Doors Open for Non-Members 12:30 pm
Silent Film Benefit Begins 1:00 pm

TICKETS & MORE INFO

Our annual Silent Film Benefit is one of the world’s longest running celebrations of film from that era. Now in its 32nd year, the program features world-class musicians, dancers and a silent film historian. Held in the historic Avalon Casino Theatre, William Wrigley Jr.’s 1929 Art Deco Movie Palace, attendees will be treated to an authentic 1920s cinematic experience. Colleen Moore stars in the 1929 decadent romantic comedy Why Be Good?.

TICKETS & MORE INFO

NETHERCUTT JUNE 21-22
PURCHASE TICKETS
WED. MAY 22, 2019

Tickets available Wed. May 22, 2019 at 4pm
for the JUNE 21-22 SILENT CINEMA SHOW at the
Newly Refurbished NETHERCUTT
with Joe Rinaudo & Gary Gibson at the Moving Picture Machine
and Dean Mora at the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
starring TOM MIX in the 1922 silent western adventure
“SKY HIGH”
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The Grim Game

Friday, May 3, 2019 at 8:00 PM
Sierra Madre Playhouse

87 W Sierra Madre Blvd.
Sierra Madre, California 91024
(626) 355-4318

In collaboration with the Catalina Island Museum and in celebration of its own beginnings as a silent movie house, the Sierra Madre Playhouse is proud to present a screening of the recently rediscovered Houdini silent film, The Grim Game!

Everyone is invited to step back into 1919 — one hundred years ago — and see this lost classic as it was meant to be seen, with live accompaniment by the doyen of silent film musicians, Michael Mortilla, and violinist Nicole Garcia. This exciting event will be introduced by Houdini expert John Cox (www.wildabouthoudini.com). Michael will talk about the importance of music in the silent era.

The Grim Game is a silent drama that showcases Houdini’s astonishing, world-famous talents as an escapologist, stunt performer and aviator. The film presents a series of Houdini’s trademark stunts and escapes and builds to an airplane pursuit climaxed by a mid-air collision.

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The film was considered lost for decades until it was rediscovered, restored and shown in 2015. It’s a fascinating cinematic record, revealing the reason that Houdini was one of the biggest stars of the early 20th century.

Now, for one night only, travel in time with us back in the Playhouse’s history and see this recently rediscovered classic at Sierra Madre Playhouse!