Screwball Sundays: His Girl Friday

April 5 - June 21

2PM Pre-Show | 3PM Film

Screwball comedies don’t just flirt with disorder—they weaponize it. Rapid-fire dialogue, mismatched lovers, social norms turned upside down, and women who refuse to behave “properly.” Screwball Sundays celebrates the genre at its most playful and subversive, pairing razor-sharp wit with big-hearted romance and impeccable comic timing.

Join us Sunday afternoons for six deliriously entertaining classics—each a reminder that love is often loud, illogical, and very funny. Each film screens on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre.

Directed by Howard Hawks

Starring Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant

Film Intro: Matthew Kennedy

The gold standard of fast-talking comedy, His Girl Friday fires dialogue like a machine gun and never lets up. Russell’s Hildy Johnson is one of cinema’s great heroines—brilliant, ambitious, and always two steps ahead—matched beat for beat by Grant’s charmingly ruthless editor. A breathless, brilliant finale to the series.

MATTHEW KENNEDY is a Film historian and author and the former curator and host of the film series at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco. He is the author of Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, and On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide, and has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies, and the National Film Registry.

Info: Come early and enjoy vintage trailers, clips, and film ephemera from the year the film was made!

Info: Enjoy a rare screening of a cinema classic on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre.

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