Thursday Afternoon Film Series April 3, 2008

Williamsburg Regional Librarys Thursday Afternoon Film Series celebrates April Fools with a series of comedies. The movies are show in the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland Street, and begin at 2 p.m. Admission is free and tickets are not required. Call the Adult Services Department at (757) 259-4050 or visit www.wrl.org/programs for more information.

April 3
Duck Soup (1933, unrated)
The Marx Brothers deliriously run amuck satirizing war and politics in this hilarious film. To appease a wealthy woman and gain access to her fortune, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) is appointed dictator of the small country Freedonia. However, Firefly wants her money all for himself and will lie, cheat and declare war on a neighboring state in order to get it. The Bugs Bunny cartoon, Slick Hare, will precede the film.

April 10
His Girl Friday (1940, unrated)
Hildy Johnson wants out of the newspaper business but her devious editor, and ex-husband, pulls every dirty trick in the book to keep her on the job. Director Howard Hawks reworking of The Front Page is wonderfully written with some of the fastest, funniest dialogue ever penned for the screen. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are excellent as the feuding reporters and lovers.

April 17
Some Like It Hot (1959, rated PG-13)
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play prohibition era musicians who witness a Mob execution. They flee town, dressed as women, with an all-girl band that includes the delectable Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe). Billy Wilder directed and wrote the script for this terrific comedy, which is ranked #1 on the American Film Institutes list of Funniest American Movies of All Time.

April 24
Whats Up, Doc? (1972, rated G)
In this very funny film an easily confused academic (Ryan ONeal) and his overbearing fiance (Madeline Kahn) become involved in the madcap shenanigans of a runaway grad student (Barbra Streisand). Buck Henry wrote the script and Peter Bogdanovich directed this salute to the screwball comedies of the 1930s.

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