The Orpheum ICON Mini-Series Presents All About Eve and Jezebel
August 8, 2008 - 6:30pm
All About Eve
It's all about women - and their men! Broadway legend Margo Channing, aging but not gracefully, has everything: a successful career, close friends and a man who loves her. She also has a "fan" named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her way into Margo's life in order to "study her like a blueprint." Eve's sweet facade is soon seen through by a number of people, most quickly by theatre critic Addison deWitt, who decides to become her mentor. Eve achieves her goal of Broadway stardom, leaving a trail of unhappiness, but ultimately contentment, behind her.
Jezebel
A fearless feminine creature with a heart full of love! Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julis is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern Belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiance' Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.
The Orpheum ICON Mini-Series presents Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and There's No Business Like Show Business
August 9, 2008 - 6:30pm
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The two marvels of the age in the wonder musical of the world! Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock," lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend."
There's No Business Like Show Business
A classic! Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Back to the Future
August 21, 2008 - 7:00pm
Marty McFly is the only kid ever to get in trouble before he was born! The year is 1985 and Marty McFly is your average everyday teenager, except for one problem. He is stuck in 1955. After his good friend Doc Emmett Brown is gunned down, Marty ends up sending the DeLorean time machine back twenty years into the past. Now he must find Doc and convince him that he is from the future in order for the Doc to send him back to the future, but this is the least of Marty's problems. After accidentally getting in the way of the important meeting between his future mother and father, Marty must get them back together before he changes time forever, and destroys his own existence.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
September 18, 2008 - 7:00pm
Return to a galaxy far, far, away... As the Emperor himself oversees the construction of the new Death Star by Lord Darth Vader and the evil Galactic Empire, smuggler Han Solo is rescued from the clutches of the vile ganster Jabba the Hutt by his friends, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Chewbacca. Leaving Luke Skywalker Jedi training with Yoda, Solo returns to the Rebel Fleet to prepare for his battle with the Empire itself. During the ensuing fighting the newly returned Skywalker is captured by Vader. Can the Rebels, and their new found friends, the Ewoks, help restore freedom to the Galaxy?
Young Frankenstein & Frankenstein
October 31, 2008 - 7:00pm
Young Frankenstein
The scariest comedy of all time! A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga, and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher - iiihhh! - Young Frankenstein doesn't belive in his grandfathers work until he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment. The whole movie is shot in black and white to simulate the old monster movies of the past.
Frankenstein
A monster science created - but could not destroy! An obsessed scientist creates a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. No longer so much a movie as it is a genuine part of popular folklore, the film itself shows its age, particulary in the absence of a musical score. But the performances by Colin Clive and the great Boris Karloff are the whole show. Truly a film everyone shoudl see at least once.
It's a Wonderful Life
November 20, 2008 - 7:00pm
They're making memories tonight! George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and contemplates suicide over the misplacing of an $8,000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earh, literally, and shows him how his town,family and friends would turn out if he had never been born.
White Christmas
December 18, 2008 - 7:00pm
The first and unforgettable picture in VISTAVISION! After leaving the Army after W.W. II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters whod also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.