Matinees
The Jimmy Stewart Museum Presents
Matinees In The Reschini Group Theater
Every week at 1:00 PM on the 3rd Floor
February
Feb 3-9
“WIFE VS. SECRETARY”
Starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and a young Jimmy Stewart. The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband’s relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
Feb 10-16
“THE SHOPWORN ANGEL”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan. Shortly after the US enters WWI in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Feb 17-23
“YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine. A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple finances embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.
Feb 24-Mar 2
“SMALL TOWN GIRL”
Starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor and Jimmy Stewart. A small rural town girl meets a handsome rich man, who proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. The drunken man decides that they should get married and once sober, regrets his mistake
March
March 3-9
“ITS A WONDERFUL WORLD”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Claudette Colbert. When a tycoon is accused of murder, the private eye tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade the police, kidnapping a poetess along the way.
March 10-16
“MAGIC TOWN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Jane Wyman. Rip Smith’s opinion-poll business is a failure…until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country.
March 17-23
“ON OUR MERRY WAY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard and Dorothy Lamour. Oliver is a newspaper classified ads clerk, not the roving reporter he leads his wife to believe. But when she suggests an interview question, Oliver scrambles to make his deception a reality. He fools an editor into assigning him a story.
March 24-30
“BROKEN ARROW”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget. Tom Jeffords (Stewart) tries to make peace between the settlers and the Apaches in Arizona territory.
April
MAR 31- APRIL 6
“COME LIVE WITH ME”
Starring Jimmy Stewart Hedy Lamarr. Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
April 7-13
“ZIEGFELD GIRL”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland and Lana Turner. A discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle of Broadway.
April 14-20
“NAVY BLUE & GOLD”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Robert Young and Lionel Barrymore. This story revolves around three men at the United States Naval Academy.
April 21-27
“NIGHT PASSAGE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Dan Duryea and Dianne Foster. A fired railroad man is re-hired and trusted to carry a ten-thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
May
April 28-May 4
“ANATOMY OF A MURDER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara. In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife.
MAY 5-11
“THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS”
Starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
May 12-18
“THE PHILADELPHIA STORY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kathryn Hepburn and Cary Grant. When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
May 19-25
“THE GLENN MILLER STORY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, and Harry Morgan. Biography of band leader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944
May 26-June 1
“THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin. A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
June
JUNE 2-8
“CARBINE WILLIAMS”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jean Hagen and Wendell Corey. David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in WWII.
JUNE 9-15
“BEND IN THE RIVER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Arthur Kennedy and Julie Adams. When a town boss confiscates a homesteader’s supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it back to them
JUNE 16-22
“VIVACIOUS LADY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers. A professor marries a night club singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
JUNE 23-29
“THUNDER BAY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Joann Dru and Dan Duryea. Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oil rig.
July
JUNE 30 – JULY 6
“DESTRY RIDES AGAIN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlena Dietrich. When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
JULY 7-13
“THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Charleston Heston. The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
JULY 14-20
“HARVEY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Josephine Hull and Peggy Dow. Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six-foot tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane-but he may be wiser than anyone know.
JULY 21-27
“THE MAGIC OF LASSIE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Mickey Rooney and Alice Fay. Lassie is trying to find her way home. She will have to run all the way from Colorado to California while her loving owner is looking for her too.
August
JULY 28 – AUG 3
“FIRECREEK”
Starring Jimmy Stewart Henry Fonda. A peace-loving part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
AUG 4-10
“FOOL’S PARADE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kurt Russell and George Kennedy. Three released prison convicts wish to open a legitimate business, but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plan to defraud them.
AUG 11-17
“CALL NORTHSIDE 777”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb. Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten-year old murder case.
AUG 18-24
“THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough and Ernest Borgnine. Survivors of a plane crash in the dessert work together to build a new plane.
AUG 25-31
“THE SHOOTIST”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
September
SEPT 1-7
“CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Shirley Jones. An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.
SEPT 8-14
“STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. An ex-pilot and currant baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
SEPT 15-21
“THE FBI STORY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles and Murray Hamilton. A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime, and Communist spies
SEPT 22-28
“NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fall catastrophically and in a novel madder after a specific number of flying hours.
October
SEPT 29 – OCT 5
“ROPE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall. Two thrill seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim’s family and friends.
OCT 6-12
“THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH”
Starring James Stewart, Doris Day and Bernard Miles. Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son, Hank; get involved in a nightmare of international espionage, assassinations and terror.
OCT 13-19
“REAR WINDOW”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, and Thelma Ritter. A professional photographer is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, who becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors.
OCT 20-26
“VERTIGO”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, and Tom Helmore. Retired police detective Stewart, who has a fear of heights, is hired by old school chum in San Francisco to keep an eye on his wife.
November
OCT 27- NOV 2
“MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, and Edward Arnold. Stewart is young idealist who finds nothing but corruption in U.S. Senate.
NOV 3-9
“BELL, BOOK and CANDLE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon. A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, she enchants him to love her instead… only to fall in love with him for real.
NOV 10- 16
“THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, & Frank Morgan. A charming period comedy about co–workers (who are pen pals) in a shop during the holidays. Takes place in Budapest.
NOV 17- JAN 4 (Closed Nov 28, Dec 24, Dec 25, & Dec 31)
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
With James Stewart and Donna Reed
NOV 22-JAN 4 (Closed Nov 28, Dec 24, Dec 25, & Dec 31)
AT 10:30 AM
G E THEATER “A TRAIL TO CHRISTMAS”
A Cowboy version of Christmas Carol starring Jimmy Stewart & Introduced by Ronald Reagan
AT 11:30 AM
THE MAKING OF IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Documentary about the making of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life
AT 1:00 PM
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
With Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed