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Palm Springs International Film Society and the Palm Springs Art Museum present

CLASSIC COMEDY FILM SERIES


Thursdays, August 9th - September 6th, 2012 at 6pm
in the Annenberg Theater, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

ADMISSION IS FREE

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DUCK SOUP
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Thursday, August 9th, at 6:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

Directed by: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx
Release Date: November 17, 1933

Running Time: 70 mins.

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The small state of Freedonia is broke and must borrow a lot of money from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), who insists that the government be placed in the hands of Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx). With designs on Freedonia, neighboring state Sylvania sends spies Pinky (Harpo Marx) and Chicolini (Chico Marx).










ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
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Thursday, August 16th, at 6:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

Directed by: Frank Capra
Starring: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair
Release Date: September 23, 1944

Running Time: 118 mins.

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Drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) marries the lovely Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane) and takes her to meet his two amiable aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair).  Mortimer discovers that his sweet, kindly aunts have a peculiar avocation: "helping" lonely old gents by poisoning them and burying them in the cellar.











THE LADYKILLERS
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Thursday, August 23rd, at 6:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom
Release Date: December 8, 1955

Running Time: 92 mins.

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Five oddball criminals planning a bank heist rent rooms in a London flat from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.









DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
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Thursday, August 30th, at 6:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden
Release Date: January 29, 1964
Running Time: 93 mins.

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Suspecting that the Soviets are plotting to taint our water supply and deplete our "precious bodily fluids," General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) dispatches a bomber wing to attack the USSR.  The US president convenes his advisors in the War Room where the Soviet Ambassador tells him that if the USSR is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Device," which will destroy the US.  Can the world be saved? 






ANNIE HALL
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Thursday, September 6th, at 6:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs

Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts
Release Date: April 20, 1977
Running Time: 93 mins.

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Opposites attract (…and do battle with live lobsters) when neurotic New Yorker Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) meets neurotic Midwesterner Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).