Vintage Film Festival coming to your local public library
Cobourg program
For the first time, the VFF is presenting mini festivals prior to the festival proper, in partnership with the Cobourg Public Library and the Port Hope Public Library. These events will be free of charge.
On Saturday, October 2 at the Cobourg Public Library there will be an all day festival featuring 4 full-length films. Screening hours will be 9.30 am to 5.00 pm.
PROGRAM OF FILMS TO BE SHOWN
| 9:30 | My Little Chickadee | Edward Cline | W.C. Fields, Mae West 1940 |
| The only film that Fields and West appeared in together. Wild Bill Fields and the Belle of the West knock sparks off each other. | |||
| 11:00 | BREAK | ||
| 11:15 | Safety Last (silent) | Fred C. Newmeyer | Harold Lloyd 1923 |
| This is one of Lloyd’s most celebrated films. It includes the famous dangling-from-the-clock scene. |  |
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| 12:30 | BREAK | ||
| 1:30 | Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding | Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery 1932 |
| A group of guests in a luxury Berlin hotel act out their issues. A dancer wants to be alone; an industrialist strives to avoid bankruptcy; a penniless baron resorts to theft. Lots of drama and romance. Today’s films should be this well-made. | |||
| 3:10 | BREAK | ||
| 3:25 | You Were Never Lovelier | William A. Seiter | Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth 1942 |
| A matchmaker sets Astaire in pursuit of Hayworth in this musical delight. | |||