College of Arts and Letters Film Series: "In Support: Unforgettable Supporting Actors and Actresses"

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  • Top Hat
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  • Bad Day
  • Rear Window
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College of Arts and Letters Film Series is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in Fall 2013!

 

IN SUPPORT:

UNFORGETTABLE SUPPORTING ACTORS AND ACTRESSES

Tuesday nights, Cline Library Assembly Hall, 7 p.m. 

*Sept 3 A Night at the Opera, Directed by Sam Wood, Starring the Marx Brothers, 1935, 96 min., unrated

  Groucho, Chico and Harpo at their peak with support from singing lovers Alan Jones and Kitty Karlisle, villainous Sig Ruman and renowned comic foil Margaret Dumont  

*Sept 10 Top Hat, Directed by Mark Sandrich, Starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1935, 101 min., unrated

 Fred and Ginger cheek to cheek with comic support from Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, ,  Helen Broderick, and Lucille Ball

*Sept 17 The Maltese Falcon, Directed by John Huston, Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, 1941, 100 min., unrated

 Bogey vaulted to stardom as detective Sam Spade with a supporting cast of Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Gladys George, Elijah Cook Jr,. Lee Patrick, Jerome Cowan, Barton MacLane, and Ward Bond

*Sept 24 Bad Day at Black Rock, Directed by John Sturges, Starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, 1955, 81 min., unrated

 Three Oscar nominations, including star Tracy and director Sturges with one of the 1950s great supporting casts: Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Anne Francis, and Dean Jagger

* Oct. 1 Rear Window, Director Alfred Hitchcock, Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, 1954, 115 min., unrated

  A Hitchcock masterpiece starring one of his favorite actors and actresses supported by Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr

  • twelve
  • cat
  • lonely
  • arsenic
  • anatomy
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*Oct. 8 Twelve Angry Men, Directed by Sidney Lumet, Starring Henry Fonda, 1957, 96 min., unrated

 Oscar nominations for picture, director and screenplay; Lumet’s debut film; and the jury: Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman, Robert Webber, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, and Ed Begley

*Oct. 15 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Directed by Richard Brooks, Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, 1958, 108 min., TV-PG

 Tennessee Williams’ classic, six Oscar nominations, two beautiful Oscar-nominated stars, and support from Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, and Jack Carson

*Oct. 22 Lonely Are the Brave, Directed by David Miller, Starring Kirk Douglas, 1962, 100 min., TV PG

   Edward Abbey’s novel, Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay, Kirk Douglas’ favorite film with support from George Kennedy, Gena Rowland, Walter Matthau,, Carol O’Connor, and William Schallert

*Oct. 29 Arsenic and Old Lace, Directed by Frank Capra, Starring Cary Grant, 1944, 118 min., unrated

   Our Halloween treat – Frank Capra directs Cary Grant in a murderous comedy featuring Josephine Hull, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, Jane Adair, Jack Carson, James Gleason, and John Alexander

Nov. 5 Anatomy of a Murder, Directed by Otto Preminger, Starring James Stewart, 1959, 160 min., TV-PG

  A great legal drama, seven Oscar nominations including picture, actor for Stewart and supporting actors Arthur O’Connell and George C. Scott, plus Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, and Eve Arden

  • a shot
  • deliverance
  • One flew
  • deer hunter
  • animal house
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*Nov. 12 A Shot in the Dark, Directed by Blake Edwards, Starring Peter Sellers, 1964, 101 min., unrated

   Peter Sellers in the best of his Inspector Clouseau comedies with Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouck as Cato

*Nov. 19 Deliverance, Directed by John Boorman, Starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, 1972, 119 min., R

   James Dickey’s adapted his acclaimed novel about four men on a death-defying river trip into an Oscar nominated film, featuring dueling banjos and support from Ned Beatty and Ronnie Cox

Nov. 26 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Directed by Milos Foreman, Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, 1975, 134 min., R

  One of only three films to win Oscars for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay, with support from Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, Sydney Lassick, and Vincent Schiavelli 

Dec. 3 The Deer Hunter, Directed by Michael Cimino, Starring Robert De Niro, 1978, 116 min., R

  10 Oscar nominations, 5 wins: picture, director, editing, sound, and supporting actor, Christopher Walken, with supporting actress nominee Meryl Streep, and John Cazale and John Savage

Dec. 10 Animal House, Directed by John Landis, Starring John Belushi, 1978, 109 min., R

  “Knowledge is Good” at Faber College;  Harold Ramis wrote it; with support from Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Tom Hulce, Kevin Bacon, Karen Allen, Donald Sutherland, and Verna Bloom

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