Before the movies learned to talk, they learned to sing, and within a few short years of the early 1930s talkie revolution, the Hollywood studios were cranking out elaborate movie musicals for a music-mad public. Join film historian Max Alvarez as he talks you on a whirlwind journey (featuring unforgettable film highlights) through the amazing screen work of Busby Berkeley, Gene Kelly, The Nicholas Brothers, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and other filmdom song-and-dance legends of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. This program will be held at Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave., on November 15 at 7pm.
Max Alvarez is an author, film historian, and speaker, on world cinema culture. A former visiting scholar at The Smithsonian Institution and museum film curator, Max currently teaches film history for John Jay College's continuing education program, Sundays at JASA, in Manhattan. He is the author of The Crime Films of Anthony Mann (University Press of Mississippi) and a major contributor to Thornton Wilder/New Perspectives (Northwestern University Press).
All are welcome to this music and fun-filled event.
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