When
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Hawks’ mid-career screwball comedy features Cary Grant as a research doctor who inadvertently discovers a serum that reverses ageing, thanks to the meddling of a lab test monkey. The witty, fast-paced script was one of a number of collaborations between Hawks and screenwriters Charles Lederer (His Girl Friday) and Ben Hecht (Scarface), and provides a delicious play on stardom and the cult of youth. With Ginger Rogers, a delightful Monroe, Charles Coburn and an opening off-screen cameo from Hawks himself!
Also screening on Wed 26 April
Program
Return Fire: Marilyn Monroe, actor and icon
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) – Wed 12 April, 7pm
Clash by Night (1952) – Wed 12 April, 8.50pm
The Misfits (1961) – Wed 19 April, 7pm
Don't Bother to Knock (1952) – Wed 19 April, 9.20pm
Monkey Business (1952) – Wed 26 April, 7pm
Bus Stop (1956) – Wed 26 April, 8.50pm
About the program
Marilyn Monroe's (1926–62) image, as the personification of Hollywood glamour, beauty and desirability, is perhaps the most iconic in popular culture...
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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