Winter/Spring Film Series

Make Way for Tomorrow
Friday, January 14 | 8 pm
Museum Auditorium

Leo McCarey was a comedy genius who directed movies for Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Mae West, and W. C. Fields. When he accepted his 1937 Best Director Oscar for the Cary Grant–Irene Dunne screwball The Awful Truth, he said, "Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture." He thought he should have won for Make Way for Tomorrow, this week’s film and McCarey’s personal favorite. It’s an unusual love story—even for today—of two people who have been happily married for 50 years.

Make Way for Tomorrow
(1937) Directed by Leo McCarey. Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell. (90 min.)

Their house foreclosed before the days of Social Security, a destitute elderly couple must rely on their beastly children. Renowned for his mastery of comedy and romance, McCarey crafts a simple tale filled with sly humor and heart-tugging drama, a simple tale that Orson Welles said “would make a stone cry.” Paramount Archive print.

Upcoming:
Friday, January 21: Scandal haunts idyllic Peyton Place

Tickets
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others

Winter/Spring Film Series Pass
Valid for 10 admissions
$35 ($25 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)
Please note that film series passes must be exchanged for individual film tickets at the Box Office.

Tickets are available online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person at the Museum Box Office.

See you at the movies!

Plan Your Rockwell Visit

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011

The final weeks of American Chronicles are here! We recommend buying your timed tickets in advance to ensure you get a chance to see this captivating exhibition. Purchase tickets online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, or in person at the Museum Box Office in East Building.

Fridays at the Museum

Before the movie, visit the galleries or relax with a glass of wine from our Friday night wine bar in the West Building Lobby, open 5:30–8 pm on Fridays.

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Image credit:

Norman Rockwell, Art Critic, 1955, oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 36 1/4 in., cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 16, 1955, Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.1998.4, ©1955 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, Ind.