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The Bad and the Beautiful  /  Two Weeks in Another Town

Two Weeks in Another Town
September 30, 2016 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

The Bad and the Beautiful  (1952)


Kirk Douglas portrays Jonathan Shields, a driven, highly successful producer of Hollywood pictures, who forms and regularly damages close relationships.  Three such friends (an actress, a writer and a director) recall various betrayals, alongside Shields' enormous charm and success, and must then decide what good movies are worth!  For his part, Douglas convincingly portrays this tornado of a man, who possibly—arguably—creates more than he destroys.

35mm, b/w, 118 min.  DIR: Vincente Minnelli.  SCR: Charles Schnee.  CAST: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Walter Pidgeon.

Two Weeks in Another Town  (1962)


Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) is a washed-up actor whose reckless living effectively ended his career.  Summoned to Rome by Maurice Kruger (Edward G. Robinson), his onetime director and friend, Jack is unenthused about the opportunity to coach actors in dubbing films to English.  But when Kruger is taken ill and Jack is given the opportunity to direct, he comes alive, stepping up creatively, and taking time to experience integrity, friendship and love.

35mm, color, 107 min.  DIR: Vincente Minnelli.  SCR: Charles Schnee.  CAST: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Daliah Lavi, George Hamilton.

Part of: 
Kirk Douglas: A Centennial Celebration