"IT" Girl Clara Bow --Silent Film Sundays Series at Wilmette Theatre

June 17, 2010 - PRLog -- Contact: Nili Yelin
            nili@wilmettetheatre.com
            847-849-3272

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THE WILMETTE THEATRE PRESENTS:



SILENT FILM SUNDAYS
With Live Piano Accompaniment

Silent films are back at the Wilmette with our new series, Silent Film Sundays. See some of the greatest silent films ever made presented on the big screen along with live piano by noted silent film accompanist David Drazin. It's perfect for the whole family.

IT with CLARA BOW from 1927 is next in our series. The quintessential flapper, Clara Bow, is captured at the height of her charm in the definitive Jazz Age romantic comedy.

Inspired by a story by Elinor Glyn, who uses the simple pronoun to encapsulate the spirit of the sexually-liberated youth of Prohibition-era America, a saucy lingerie salesgirl sets her sights on the handsome owner (Antonio Moreno) of the department store in which she works. Leading him on a romantic chase from the Hotel Ritz to the whirling attractions of Coney Island, Betty Lou (Bow) decides to crash a high-society yacht party in a last-ditch effort to get her man.

Unlike the sexless starlets or cool beauties who generally appeared on screen, Bow was prone to playing the sexual aggressor in her films, a daring deviation from female passivity that revolutionized the role of women not only in cinema, but in society as well. In It, Bow's gregarious personality and striking beauty are brilliantly showcased, making it easy to understand how she became Hollywood's most popular leading lady of the late 1920s.

ALL TICKETS $12

Sunday, July 18th at 2pm -

                                                       

                                                      Tickets available online at www.wilmettetheatre.com or call Box Office at 847-251-7424

                                                     THE WILMETTE THEATRE
                                                      1122 Central Avenue
                                                      Wilmette, Il. 60091
                                                      www.wilmettetheatre.com
                                                      847-251-7424

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