New Plaza Cinema Lecture: The Films of Stanley Donen. New On-Line Lecture!

Dancing and Romancing: The Films of Stanley Donen. - New Lecture!

Stanley Donen (1924-2019) was only 25 when he co-directed On the Town at M-G-M with Gene Kelly. Within a few very short years, Donen helmed such 1950s musical classics as Singin’ in the Rain, Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Funny Face. Not to be outdone, Donen excelled at directing acting legends Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, and others, in the intelligent international comedy-dramas Indiscreet, Charade, and Two for the Road. Donen also put Peter Cook and Dudley Moore through their hilarious places in the masterful Bedazzled.

Join film historian Max Alvarez for our online holiday celebration of this highly versatile Hollywood directing legend.

Author, film historian, and public speaker Max Alvarez is a former visiting scholar and guest lecturer for The Smithsonian Institution and previously film curator at National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. His partnerships have included University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley; Museum of the Moving Image, New Plaza Cinema, Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art in D.C.

Alvarez’s lecture topics range from the Cold War and political blacklisting to depictions of elections and the US presidency in Hollywood movies, immigration on film, China during the 20th Century, European women artists, censorship history, 20th century Jewish culture, and the British and American theater. Author of The Crime Films of Anthony Mann (University Press of Mississippi) and a major contributor to Thornton Wilder/New Perspectives (Northwestern University Press), his latest book is The Cinéphile’s Guide to the Great Age of Cinema (released June 2020). www.maxjalvarez.com

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