Well hello my darling cherubs! The time has come for our monthly movie night Double Feature, and this month’s theme will be the extremely topical, timely and turbulent topic of Plastic Surgery!
The films featured are both 1940’s noir-ish productions about broken women granted new lives with new faces…..but while their faces may have been fixed, their hearts are still scarred wastelands of contempt and hate!
Our first feature will be A Woman’s Face (1941), directed by George Cukor, (who was known as Hollywood’s “woman” director), who was also responsible for such classics as The Women (1939), A Star Is Born (1954) and My Fair Lady (1964). A Woman’s Face stars Oscar Winners Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas, about a woman they call a “Scar-Faced She-Devil!” Running time is 106 minutes.
Our second feature is the 1946 sci-fi noir Strange Impersonation directed by Anthony Mann (best known for his reinventions of the Western, such as the excellent 1950 film The Furies starring Barbara Stanwyck) and stars Brenda Marshall as a scorned woman scientist who physically alters her appearance for vengeance---for we all know that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! Running time is 68 minutes.
For treats we will be serving breast shaped cupcakes called Pam Andersons and Pam Griers (and no, they are not life size) and nose shaped croissants called Adrien Brodys. During intermission we will be playing a fast and loose plastic surgery murder mystery game called “Who Killed Lefse Potica?” where every guest will play a part in this labyrinthine mind bender. Whoever guesses the killer gets a crack at playing “Pin the Nose on the Cher,” and the ultimate winner will receive an appropriate prize!
Additionally, this will be the last movie night hosted at the current residence that Joseph and I occupy as we will be moving to Loring Park in April. So please come by for one last movie night in our current Uptown abode, where we have had so many good times and watched so much wonderful cinema.
Please RSVP ASAP so that I may have enough roles written for the murder mystery.
The films featured are both 1940’s noir-ish productions about broken women granted new lives with new faces…..but while their faces may have been fixed, their hearts are still scarred wastelands of contempt and hate!
Our first feature will be A Woman’s Face (1941), directed by George Cukor, (who was known as Hollywood’s “woman” director), who was also responsible for such classics as The Women (1939), A Star Is Born (1954) and My Fair Lady (1964). A Woman’s Face stars Oscar Winners Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas, about a woman they call a “Scar-Faced She-Devil!” Running time is 106 minutes.
Our second feature is the 1946 sci-fi noir Strange Impersonation directed by Anthony Mann (best known for his reinventions of the Western, such as the excellent 1950 film The Furies starring Barbara Stanwyck) and stars Brenda Marshall as a scorned woman scientist who physically alters her appearance for vengeance---for we all know that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! Running time is 68 minutes.
For treats we will be serving breast shaped cupcakes called Pam Andersons and Pam Griers (and no, they are not life size) and nose shaped croissants called Adrien Brodys. During intermission we will be playing a fast and loose plastic surgery murder mystery game called “Who Killed Lefse Potica?” where every guest will play a part in this labyrinthine mind bender. Whoever guesses the killer gets a crack at playing “Pin the Nose on the Cher,” and the ultimate winner will receive an appropriate prize!
Additionally, this will be the last movie night hosted at the current residence that Joseph and I occupy as we will be moving to Loring Park in April. So please come by for one last movie night in our current Uptown abode, where we have had so many good times and watched so much wonderful cinema.
Please RSVP ASAP so that I may have enough roles written for the murder mystery.
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