Friday Night at the Movies

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 - A MIGHTY WIND
(2003 – Warner Bros.) -- The film was directed (and co-written) by Christopher Guest. The film was inspired by the 2003 tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of the folk groups that Leventhal had managed.

When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away his son decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom's best-loved musicians to celebrate a life spent submerged in folk. There's Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. For one night only they will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

Cast
Stuart Luce ... Irving Steinbloom
Mary Gross ... Ma Klapper
Harry Shearer ... Mark Shubb
Michael McKean ... Jerry Palter
Christopher Guest ... Alan Barrows
Eugene Levy ... Mitch Cohen
Catherine O'Hara ... Mickey Crabbe
Bob Balaban ... Jonathan Steinbloom
Rachael Harris ... Steinbloom's Assistant
Jane Lynch ... Laurie Bohner
John Michael Higgins ... Terry Bohner
Parker Posey ... Sissy Knox
Fred Willard ... Mike LaFontaine
Ed Begley Jr. ... Lars Olfen
Wendel Meldrum ... Witch #1
Richard Hicks ... Witch #4
Michael Hitchcock ... Lawrence E. Turpin
Larry Miller ... Wally Fenton
Jennifer Coolidge ... Amber Cole

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 - A FISH CALLED WANDA
(1988 - MGM) -- A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 British/American crime/comedy film written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton, directed by Crichton.

Diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, so they inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda believes the best way to find out is to get close to George's lawyer.

Cast
John Cleese as Archie Leach
Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda Gershwitz
Kevin Kline as Otto West
Michael Palin as Ken Pile
Maria Aitken as Wendy Leach
Tom Georgeson as George Thomason
Patricia Hayes as Mrs Cody
Geoffrey Palmer as Judge
Stephen Fry as Man at airport

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 - EASTER PARADE
(1948 – MGM) -- Easter Parade, a musical starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells." It won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. It also received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. It was the most financially successful picture for both Garland and Astaire.

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protégée Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

Cast
Judy Garland as Hannah Brown
Fred Astaire as Don Hewes
Peter Lawford as Jonathan Harrow III
Ann Miller as Nadine Hale
Jules Munshin as Headwaiter François
Clinton Sundberg as Mike the Bartender
Richard Beavers as Singer ("The Girl on the Magazine Cover")

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 - BRINGING UP BABY
(1938 – RKO Radio Pictures) -- Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a story by Wilde, Bringing Up Baby was a box office catastrophe. As time went on, however, the movie gained more and more attention and is now revered as a classic ahead of its time.

When Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a scatterbrained young woman, takes a shine to Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant), a sober paleontologist, mayhem ensues. Dr. Huxley, engaged to be married and intensely interested in the arrival of the brontosaurus bone required to complete his project at the museum, is inextricably bound up with Susan's escapades when she finds herself responsible for Baby, a tame leopard shipped to her New York apartment and intended for Susan's aunt in Connecticut.

Cast
Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance
Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley
Charles Ruggles as Maj. Horace Applegate
Walter Catlett as Constable Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald as Aloysius Gogarty
May Robson as Aunt Elizabeth Random
Fritz Feld as Dr. Fritz Lehman
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Hannah Gogarty
George Irving as Dr. Alexander Peabody
Tala Birell as Mrs. Lehman
Virginia Walker as Alice Swallow
John Kelly as Elmer
Asta as George, a dog
Nissa as both of the leopards