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Past Film Events: Please read below to learn about past musical events with La Senora. For additional information about these and other events, see our calendar archive. 
Date/Time:
| January 22, 2011 3:00 PM | Film:
| Documentary on the life of Will Rogers
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| A documentary on the life of Will Rogers was screened in La
Senora's 50-seat 1930s Screening Room. Mike Allan and Docents from Will
Rogers Museum answered questions during the refreshments following the
screening.This is the first in a series of Will Rogers events in La Senora's 2010-11 Season; a visit to the Will Rogers home in the Palisades
is planned for early 2011. Will was a journalist, a radio personality, a
star of stage (Zeigfeld Follies) and film; he was the leading political
wit of the Progressive Era.It has been seriously proposed that the Bible and Shakespeare
are the only writings that have been quoted more frequently than Will
Rogers. In concert with ideas he was conveying in newspaper columns,
movies and magazine articles, Will's radio addresses were the principal
opinion molders during the first half of the 1930s. Always a talker and a
fabled raconteur, Will Rogers was a natural for radio with his warm and
entertaining voice.
In a time when World
War I and the Great Depression dominated the national scene, Will
Rogers' down-home charm and incredible insight explained the phenomena
and exposed the foibles. Good event or bad, Will delivered a timely
message, jestful appraisal or jocular warning.His weekly Sunday evening show, The Gulf Headliners, ranked by 1935 among the top fifteen radio programs in the country.Will
first appeared on the radio in Pittsburgh in 1922 on station KDKA when
the medium was in its infancy. That broadcast signal was picked up only
by crystal sets and earphones, the forerunners of radios with
loudspeakers. Will Rogers continued to appear on radio through the 1920s
and made his first regularly scheduled broadcasts in the spring of 1930
for the pharmaceutical firm E. R. Squibb & Sons. |
| Date/Time: | 22 May 2010 4:30 PM | | Film: | Rita Hayworth | | |
Save the Date for this screening of Elaina Archer's fascinating documentary produced for Turner Classic Movies. Elaina will introduce . Rita Hayworth, ubiquitous 'pin-up girl' for the GIs, sultry screen star and seductive enough to capture the Aga Kahn. Refreshments following the Q&A.
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February 11, 2010 7:30 PM
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Film:
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Classic Canyon FILM SERIES: 'The Robe'
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Description:
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'The
Robe' is the second in the Classic Canyon film series of three award winning
classic films presented in the historic Theater at La Senora.
Each
film features in cast or crew one of the Hollywood greats that are or have
lived in Santa Monica Canyon, Lyle R Wheeler (Art Director), 'The Snows of
Kilimanjaro' and 'The Robe'. Peter
Graves (actor), 'Airplane' who is our esteemed guest speaker at this special
screening of 'Airplane'. |
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La Senora's Teatro del Canyon |
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| January 14, 2010
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| Classic Canyon FILM SERIES
| Description:
| The first in the 2010 Classic Canyon film series of three award winning classic films presented in the historic Theater at La Senora.
| Venue:
| La Senora's Teatro del Canyon
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Date/Time:
| December 10, 2009 7:00 PM
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| All Ivy Film Festival: Film No. 3, 'Daddy Long Legs'
| Description:
| Old
Hollywood Legends Film Series
This event is sponsored by the local
Alumni Associations of multiple Ivy League Colleges. Empresario Members
of La Senora are welcome to attend this Premium event on a space
available basis.
| Venue:
| La Senora's Teatro del Canyon
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Date/Time:
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August
1, 2009 3:00 PM
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Film:
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Film Screening: The True Story of Marion
Davies
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Description:
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Old
Hollywood Legends Film Series
The recent opening of the Annenberg Beach Club, site of the former Marion
Davies Beach House, has sparked a rebirth of interest in the
enigmatic career of Marion Davies. Join La Senora for for"The Story of
Marion Davies". narrated by Charlize Theron. The film's Producer, Elaina
Archer, will discuss Marion's career and the making of the film. Archer is
the former head of the Mary Pickford Library; she has been the Producer of
four other Hollywood Film Legend documentaries in conjunction with Hefner and
Turner Classic Movies. Materials related to Marion Davies and W.R Hearst are
part of La Senora's Anita Loos Collections. Anita's adjacent Gold Coast beach
house and her equally 'mapcap personality' made close friends of Loos, Davies
and Pickford ....a trio of powerhouse women of Early Film.
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La
Senora's Teatro del Canyon
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August
8, 2009 3:00 PM
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Film:
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Classic Canyon FILM SERIES: 'Gypsy
Wildcat'
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Description:
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'Gypsy Wildcat' (1944),
introduction by guest speaker, author Tom Zimmerman.
Leo Carrillo was one of the best-known and most accessible actors of his era;
his rancho along the creek in Santa Monica Canyon made him a neighbor to La
Senora's Mojica Hacienda. In this film Carrillo is paired with the
indomitable Maria Montez, well known for her portrayal of strong female
characters in her films...a rarity for the time.
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Senora's Teatro del Canyon
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