Saturday | September 1, 2012 9:15 pm

Hot Saturday: The Paramount Pre-Code Marathon

Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets

To celebrate the final weekend of the Paramount centennial program, the Harvard Film Archive invites you to an all-night orgy of six—count ’em, six—pre-Code movies from Paramount, featuring girls about town, “cute brutes,” co-eds at wild parties, Joel McCrea in a swimsuit, Claudette Colbert as Queen of the Nile, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in a ménage a trois, and more. Plus shorts and surprises to last until dawn!

PROGRAM

Girls About Town

Directed by George Cukor.
With Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman.
US, 1931, 35mm, black & white, 80 min.
She Done Him Wrong

Directed by Lowell Sherman.
With Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore.
US, 1933, 35mm, black & white, 66 min.
White Woman

Directed by Stuart Walker.
With Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford.
US, 1933, 35mm, black & white, 73 min.
Cleopatra

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
With Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon.
US, 1934, 35mm, black & white, 102 min.
The Wild Party

Directed by Dorothy Arzner.
With Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day.
US, 1929, 35mm, black & white, 77 min.
Hot Saturday

Directed by Willilam Seiter.
With Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott.
US, 1932, 35mm, black & white, 73 min.