Vaudeville Returns!, Sunday Matinee

Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 2 pm Only!

A Hurricane of Fun and Frolic for Everyone!

Vaudeville Returns!, Sunday Matinee

Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 2 pm Only!

A Hurricane of Fun and Frolic for Everyone!
Vaudeville Returns! for a special Sunday Matinee

VAUDEVILLE RETURNS! for the 11th time to Glendale's historic Alex Theatre.

The one-matinee-only event is an eclectic mix of variety acts similar to those that made vaudeville so beloved by a generation of fans. Headlining our live acts this year will be IAN WHITCOMB and his Bungalow Boys followed by 4 live acts of comedy, magic and mayhem including:

Multi-Award-Winning
Comedy Juggling

Jeffrey Daymont

Hilariously Funny!
Dana Daniels & Luigi

World's Greatest
Hula Hoop Champion

Mat Plendl

Absolutely Stunning!
She Reads Men's Minds!

The Bornstein Experiment

Our program will be capped off with an eclectic selection of shorts including: Laurel & Hardy's Hog Wild (1930); a 1930's Our Gang (Spanky and the Little Rascals) short; a period Hearst Metrotone Newsreel and as always, a vintage cartoon.

This year a rare Sing-a-long: When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba (1933), a Fleischer bouncing ball sing-a-long cartoon featuring the Mills Brothers.

Shorts courtesy of Robert Halmi Inc. and newsreel from the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Guaranteed fun for the whole family. Tickets on sale now!

General Admission: $20; Seniors/Students $15; Alex Film Society members $12.50
(join at the box office with cash or check and save immediately on admission. If you join AFS with Paypal on our website at least 2 weeks before screening, we'll send you a membership card before the screening).

This year our matinee performance is supported, in part, by Glendale Arts and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Abbott and Costello in Hold That Ghost

Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 2 & 8 pm only

THOSE SLAP-HAPPY SCREAMSTERS GO A'HAUNTING!

Abbott and Costello in Hold That Ghost

1941 Universal

Abbott and Costello's "Hold That Ghost"

One of Bud and Lou's best, finds the team as gas station attendants who inherit a haunted tavern, where they (along with several travelers) spend a hilariously spooky night complete with murder, dead bodies and a mysterious moving candle!!

Leonard Maltin calls it, "Prime A&C!"

And the Andrews Sisters even perform.

With Joan Davis, Richard Carlson, Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer AND Shemp Howard!

Event running time is approximately 2 hours.

General Admission: $13.50; Seniors/Students $9.50;
Alex Film Society members $8 (join at the box office with cash or check and save immediately on admission. If you join AFS with Paypal on our website at least 2 weeks before screening, we'll send you a membership card before the screening).

Tickets on sale Now!

Our Thirteenth Three Stooges® Big Screen Event!

Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 2 & 8 pm only

Slapped from the Headlines! Health Care Pills, Immigration Skills, Political Thrills, Housing Chills, and Oil Spills!

Our Thirteenth Three Stooges® Big Screen Event!

various, (Columbia)

Slapped from the Headlines!
Health Care Pills, Immigration Skills, Political Thrills, Housing Chills, and Oil Spills!

Our Blue Ribbon panel of certified Stoogeophiles recently met to pick titles and a theme for the coming 13th Three Stooges Big Screen Event.
Subject to great 35mm prints being available, our line up is:

Dizzy Doctors (1937)

What’s the Matador? (1942)

Three Dark Horses (1952)

The Sitter Downers (1937)

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)

We will also have some other ancillary materials that you will never seen anywhere else! All 2000 fans who attended last year know what a great time this will be!

Fun? Soitenly! Running time approximately 2 hours.

Tickets are on sale in July!
General Admission: $15; Seniors/Students/kids $11; Alex Film Society members $8 (join at the box office with cash or check and save immediately on admission).

The Greatest Cartoons Ever!

Sunday, December 26, 2010 at 2 & 7 pm only

Cartoon Hall of Fame Big Screen Event

The Greatest Cartoons Ever!

various studios

Alex Film Society presents
The First Annual

Cartoon Hall of Fame Big Screen Event!

See classic cartoons with your favorite stars such as Mickey, Donald, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Superman, Daffy Duck, and a few you may never have heard of when the Alex Film Society screens some of the cinema's best cartoons.

Once the gifts are open and dinner is eaten and you are looking for something out of the house, bring the family to the Alex and a few hours with all our classic cartoon friends.

Just as the Three Stooges® Big Screen Event! has become a Thanksgiving tradition, join us for the first annual Cartoon Hall of Fame.

More information and tickets will be available in July 2010.