Taradrome presents Cecil B. De Mille's MADAM SATAN

Name: Taradrome presents Cecil B. De Mille's MADAM SATAN
Start: 2024-07-02T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Tara Theatre

Schedule

Tue Jul 02 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Tara Theatre | Atlanta, GA

Tuesday, July 2nd, 7:30pm at @thetaraatlanta.
It ain't summertime without camp!
Taradrome presents Cecil B. De Mille's under-seen MADAM SATAN — an oddball disaster comedy that was itself...a disaster!
We're excited and grateful to announce that this screening will be introduced by our friend Genevieve McGilicuddy, chief commander of the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival!
WATCH! America’s boozy upper crust philander and lie with no real consequence—oblivious to the constraints of Prohibition and the Great Depression!
SEE! A genuinely spectacular masquerade ball so orgiastic and outrageous that only the laws of nature can break it up!
HEAR! A couple of pretty awkward but mercifully short “musical numbers!”
BEHOLD! Jaw-dropping Art Deco sets and designer evening wear that would make Busby Berkley seethe!
THRILL! To the spectacle of millionaire idiots falling from the sky!
GASP! As the Hindenburg disaster is ineptly foreshadowed—seven years before it occurs!
WONDER! Why MGM spent so much on this bizarre folly, nearly going bankrupt!
Kay Johnson is Angela Brooks: a woman so rich she can brush off tabloid reports of her husband's cheating. For her, there's nothing that can't be fixed by an elaborate public shaming, and she spends the movie's first 50 minutes scheming exactly that. When New York City's elite board a boozy blimp to attend the social event of the year, her elaborate deception falls into place — and the tone of the film shifts from frothy comedy to maximalist decadence. It's all depravity, debauchery, and deceit aboard the enormous zeppelin, but when disaster strikes, who will be left twisting in the wind?