Movie Time:
Classic Movies in a Classic Mansion

Every other Wednesday (see schedule)

Doors open @ 6:30

Movie begins at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: 
$5/Adults, $3/Seniors & Students, Free/museum member.
For more information please call (414) 278-8295

Leading Milwaukee film historian Dale E. Kuntz presents special choices from his rare collection of classic films from the 30s and 40's.  Films are shown on 16mm, reel-to-reel film - not dvd!  Most of these cinematic treasures are not available so don't miss this rare opportunity to see these films in their original glory.  Prior to each screening, Dale fascinates the audience with his knowledge of film history, giving the inside scoop on each film, including bizarre details about the stars and clues to help the audience spot little oddities that ended up in the film instead of on the cutting room floor. 

Academy Award – Best Pictures
Winter 2010
On May 16, 1929, 200 film industry guests attended the very first Academy Awards, held at the now-famous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.  There were only ten nominations that year.  Over the years more categories were added including, Best Short Subjects, Best Music and Song, Best Supporting Actor/Actress, Best Special Effects and, Best Costume Design.  Over time, the Academy Awards have grown into the mammoth entertainment production they are today.  In 1943, the public was invited to the awards when it moved in to the Grauman’s Chinese Theater.  The following year, 1944, the Awards were broadcast for the first time over national radio network – ABC.  And, on March 19, 1953, the Awards were first televised – and the whole world was invited (was watching).  Now, the Charles Allis Art Museum and Milwaukee Film Classics invite you to view some truly classic Best Pictures from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
 		 

It Happened One Night

Wednesday, January 13
1934, 105 min
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
The first film to win the five top awards:  Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay!  After Myrna Loy, Carole Lombard, Connie Bennett and others turned it down, Colbert agreed to take on the role of the runaway heiress who falls in love with a newspaper man on a bus trip… that turns into a hitch-hiking fun-fest.  One of the most delightful comedies ever made, it is as fresh today as it was seventy-six years ago.


The Great Ziegfeld
Wednesday, January 27
1936, 176 min
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, Ray Bolger
Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning three:  Best Picture, Actress, and Dance Direction.  The life and loves of the great showman Florenz Ziegfeld are portrayed in one of the most lavish musicals ever made in Hollywood.  Billie Burke (Glenda – the good witch in Wizard of Oz) personally chose Loy to portray her on screen.  The Award-winning production number, “A Pretty Girl is like a Melody,” is the greatest extravaganza ever to be put on the silver screen!

 
You Can’t Take it with You!
Wednesday, February 3
1938, 127 min.
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lional Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Ann Miller, Spring Byington
Nominated for seven Academy Awards.  Frank Capra won for Best Picture and Best Director.  Based on the successful Broadway Play by Kaufman and Hart – it remains one of the best “screwball” comedies of all time.  The madness starts when Arthur invites her boyfriend Stewart, and his straight-laced family, over to dinner to meet her unconventional clan… to say the least.

 


How Green Was My Valley

Wednesday, February 17
1941, 118 min.
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood
One of the most honored films of all time!  Winning five of its ten nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Interior Decoration.  Sincere moving drama of a Welsh coal-mining family… their love, strength, weakness and tragedy beautifully brought together in one of the most touching stories on film.



Casablanca

Wednesday, March 10
1943, 102 min.
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall
Nominated for eight Awards, winning three:  Best Picture, Best Director, and best Screenplay.  (The biggest goof was Claude Rains losing to Charles Coburn.)  One of the most popular and beloved (some say even the greatest) film ever to come out of Hollywood!  The story of three lives that don’t amount to a hill of beans, and get caught up in war-time Casablanca espionage.

 


All About Eve
Wednesday, March 24
1950, 138 min.
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter
The most honored film in motion picture history.  Nominated for fourteen Awards, winning six:  Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording, and Best Costume Design.  The Broadway theater never had it so good!  Some of the most witty, biting, sophisticated dialog ever written.  Betty Davis in one of the truly outstanding roles of her career. 


The Charles Allis Art Museum
A vibrant, urban center for Wisconsin artists, the Charles Allis Art Museum continually strengthens and supports the Milwaukee community by elevating the visibility and prestige of local talent through its sponsorship of exhibitions featuring Wisconsin artists in changing exhibitions. At the Allis there is an emphasis on fine art - drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Charles and Sarah Allis generously bequeathed the home and its collection to the public to "delight, inspire and educate." The Tudor-style mansion is intact with original furnishings and an art collection spanning more than 2,000 years. The Museum also hosts a variety of events and programs that not only entertain our patrons, but educates as well. Located at 1801 N. Prospect Ave., the Museum is part of the Milwaukee County War Memorial complex and a partner of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2220 N. Terrace Ave.

Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday from 1-5 p.m. General admission is $5 for Adults, $3 for Seniors, Military and Students with a valid ID, and FREE for Museum Members and children 12 and under.