Al Balad Theatre, one of the city’s last remaining (original) grand theatre houses, is proud to announce the launch of the Al Balad Classic Cinema Club, commencing this coming June.
Each month, Al Balad Classic Cinema Club will be presenting four nights of the landmark productions of a bygone era, featuring the world’s great luminaries of the silver screen.
Besides the film screenings, Al Balad Classic Cinema Club will be hosting platform talks and discussions with actors, directors and classic film enthusiasts following the viewing.
For its initial offering to commemorate the icon’s birthday,
Al Balad Classic Cinema Club will present four box office classics staring the beguiling Marilyn Monroe, beginning with How to Marry a Millionaire on June 21.
In addition, and for the first time in Jordan, a bonus
presentation of her last sadly unfinished movie Something’s Got to Give will be staged on the final night on June 24.
The purpose of the club is twofold: to pioneer the first classic film club in Jordan, thereby enhancing the different genres of motion picture entertainment available in the country, and to create a forum for classic movie buffs and budding local film makers.
Al Balad Classsic Cinema Club will provide a dynamic platform for all forms of cultural events.
Each week of the month we will be screening a selection of classic Arabic and foreign movies of different genres, featuring the iconic stars and directors of the 20th century.
The venue will be Al Balad Theatre with screenings commencing at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets per night: JD 3
Pass per month: JD 12
Contact
+962 6 4652005
loush@hotmail.com
mike@al-balad.org
Movies
Date: June 21
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell and David Wayne
Synopsis: Three fashion models of modest means, (Monroe, Grable and Bacall), rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment, and pose as women of wealth as part of an elaborate scheme to snare rich husbands.
Length: 95 Minutes
Date: June 22
Seven Year Itch (1955)
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Butch Bernard and Tufts Sonny
Synopsis: When his wife and son leave on a vacation, Richard Sherman (Ewell), a book publisher happily married for over seven years, has all of Manhattan to himself. No sooner had a gorgeous model, The Girl (Monroe), moved into his building, than fantasies and temptations began to find their way to Richard’s mind.
Length: 105 Minutes
June 23
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn and Elliott Reid
Synopsis: Monroe stars as Lorelei Lee, a gold-digger, who always goes after rich men and their diamond studded gifts. Along with Dorothy Shaw (Russell) she boards a ship bound for Paris, and finds herself entangled in a series of screwball mishaps.
Length: 91 Minutes
June 24
Bus Stop / Something’s Got To Give
Bus Stop (1956)
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Hope Lange and Eileen Heckart
Synopsis: A rowdy and stubborn cowboy, Beauregard ‘Bo’ Decker (Murray), falls for a local singer, Cherie (Monroe), and, against all her protestations, is determined to make her his wife.
Length: 96 Minutes
Something’s Got to Give (1962)
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse and Phil Silvers
Synopsis: Ellen Arden (Monroe), a mother of two small children, was on a trans-pacific yacht when she was swept overboard. After an exhaustive search her husband Nick (Martin) has her declared dead. On the day he is to be remarried to Bianca (Charisse) Ellen returns home after being rescued from a desert island where she has been stranded for the past 5 years.
This unfinished remake of My Favorite Wife, due to the firing of Monroe from the film, was her last movie. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962.