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Los Angeles Conservancy Presents
the 22nd Annual



May 28 – July 2, 2008

Check out our photo gallery of the Broadway Historic Theatre District!

All performances are general seating.
Doors open at 7 p.m. – Program starts at 8 p.m. – Program ends between 10 and 11 p.m.

Check back for details on each evening’s special program, including celebrity guests and live performances. All programs subject to change.

Wednesday, May 28 Los Angeles Theatre 615 S. Broadway Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - SOLD OUT! (20th Century Fox, 1953, 91 minutes, Technicolor)

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell leave a trail of broken hearts from New York to Paris as a pair of showgirls looking for love (and money) on a transatlantic luxury liner. Based on a popular Broadway musical and directed by Howard Hawks, this Technicolor classic features a pink-satin-clad Monroe in the memorable showstopper "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend."
Print and film still courtesy of Fox Entertainment Group.

Special Program: The evening will be hosted by film critic/historian Leonard Maltin, schedule permitting.

Evening Sponsor:

Wednesday, June 4 Million Dollar Theatre 307 S. Broadway Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945, 113 minutes, black/white) SOLD OUT! Please send an email to mildredpierce@laconservancy.org to be notified if additional tickets become available.

Joan Crawford won her only Oscar® for portraying Mildred Pierce, a housewife turned restaurant entrepreneur willing to sacrifice anything and everything for her spoiled daughter. Directed by Michael Curtiz and filmed around the city, this Los Angeles film-noir classic co-stars Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, and Ann Blyth as Veda, the offspring you love to loathe. Print and film still courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Special Program: The evening will be hosted by Alan K. Rode, film historian, writer, and director of the Film Noir Foundation.

Evening Sponsor:

Wednesday, June 11 Orpheum Theatre 842 S. Broadway Goldfinger - SOLD OUT! (United Artists, 1964, 112 minutes, color)

Special Program: The evening will be hosted by Star Trek’s George Takei with a pre-show concert by legendary organist Bob Mitchell on the Orpheum's Mighty Wurlitzer.

Evening Sponsors: Steve and Cathy Needleman

Wednesday, June 18 Los Angeles Theatre 615 S. Broadway Young Frankenstein - SOLD OUT! (20th Century Fox, 1974, 105 minutes, black/white)

Director Mel Brooks pays unique tribute to classic monster movies in this all-star comedy. Gene Wilder plays a serious-minded medical lecturer who is transformed into a mad scientist after inheriting the Transylvanian castle that once belonged to his infamous grandfather. Co-starring Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, and Madeline Kahn. The 1974 classic inspired the hit Broadway musical of the same name.
Print and film still courtesy of Fox Entertainment Group.

Special Program: The evening will be hosted by Harry Medved, author of Hollywood Escapes.

Evening Sponsors: Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth & Richard and Alison Crowell

Special Program: The evening will be hosted by KTTV Fox 11 Reporter Tony Valdez, and will include a live musical performance by the John Villalobos Quartet, playing Boleros and Son Cubano with influences of jazz, flamenco, and blues.

Evening Co-Sponsors:

Wednesday, July 2 Orpheum Theatre 842 S. Broadway Silent Comedy Classics: The Navigator with Pay Day and Get Out and Get Under

Keaton! Chaplin! Lloyd! Prepare yourself for a sidesplitting evening with three of Hollywood's legendary funnymen. Charlie Chaplin's Pay Day (1922, 28 mins.) and Harold Lloyd's Get Out and Get Under (1920, 25 mins.) Kick off the program, followed by the 1924 Buster Keaton feature The Navigator (1924, 60 mins.). In one of the comedian's best works, Keaton co-directs and stars as a jilted blue-blood who gets stranded on a ship with his ex-sweetheart (Kathryn McGuire).
Print of Pay Day courtesy of Robert Israel; print of Get Out and Get Under courtesy of Sony Pictures Repertory and the Harold Lloyd Trust; print of The Navigator courtesy of The Rohauer Collection/Douris UK Ltd.

Special Program: Acclaimed organist Robert Israel will accompany the films on the Orpheum's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Maxwell DeMille will host the evening.

Evening Sponsor:

Series Star Sponsors
The Crean Family Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Series Supporting Sponsor
Steve Bing

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Media Sponsors

Palace Theatre
630 S. Broadway, Downtown

Built in 1911 as the third home of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in Los Angeles, this theatre by architect G. Albert Lansburgh is now the oldest remaining original Orpheum theatre in the country. Loosely styled after a Florentine Renaissance palazzo, the faηade of this brick and concrete structure features terra cotta flowers, fairies, and theatrical masks illustrating the spirit of entertainment. It remains remarkably intact and is now used for filming and events.

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #449, listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Photo by Tom Zimmerman Photography