Wednesday | November 8, 2006 9:15 pm

The Farmer Takes A Wife

Screening on Film

Directed by Victor Fleming.
With Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford.
US, 1935, 35mm, black & white, 91 min.

Henry Fonda made his big-screen debut in this folksy period drama by reprising the role that had won him acclaim on the Broadway stage. Fonda plays a soft-spoken, progress-minded farmer who falls in love with the feisty cook (Gaynor) aboard a working canal barge. Gaynor’s forthright, spunky role in The Farmer Takes A Wife enabled her to stretch her wholesome star persona into fresh territory. As Variety noted, “Gaynor is given a part which permits her to get away from her sometimes too sweet assignments.”

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas