Megan McGurk introduces two classic woman's pictures in May.
See you in The Dot Theatre.
Have a complimentary glass of wine or bring your own.
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Screens Friday May 9 at 7.00
In Preston Sturges’s glorious screwball comedy, ‘sex always has something to do with it,’ which means that Claudette Colbert can step on Rudy Vallee’s face (twice), and rather than give out to her, he buys her a new wardrobe. Claudette plays a mug’s game, by convincing herself that she can divorce her swoon merchant husband Joel McCrea, who happens to be broke, just to grab the first millionaire she meets. In a classic woman’s picture, economic pragmatism flies out the window when Eros shoots an arrow in your can.
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Screens Thursday, May 15 at 7.00
Lana Turner takes as much pride in her Twin Oaks uniform as the soldiers who stormed Normandy beaches. She’s a hard worker, keen on amounting to something. But what’s a gal to do when a drifter (John Garfield) gives you a look that promises to give you the business? Her husband (Cecil Kellaway) plans to cart her off to another country to be a caretaker for his sister. It will take an attorney more twisted than a corkscrew (Hume Cronyn) to pull her heels out of the fire. Lana should have gotten her flowers for playing a woman caught in a jam between duty and desire.
