Matinees
The Jimmy Stewart Museum Presents
Matinees In The Reschini Group Theater
Every week at 1:00 PM on the 3rd Floor
February
JAN 29 – Feb 4
“DEAR BRIGITTE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Brigitte Bardot and Bill Mumy. An absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
Feb 5-11
“THE NAKED SPUR”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Janet Leigh and Robert Ryan. A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Feb 12-18
“NEXT TIME WE LOVE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Ray Milland. A young married couple’s relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
Feb 19-25
“BORN TO DANCE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Eleanor Powell and Buddy Ebsen. This musical follows the story of a dancer and a sailor. When Ted meets Nora, he knows that he has fallen in love. If Ted wants to clear his image and win the love of his life, he must dance and sing his way back into Nora’s heart.
March
FEB 26 – March 3
“YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Ann Miller. A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
March 4-10
“THE PHILADELPHIA STORY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. A society girl yearns for down-to-earth romance; Grant is her ex-husband, and Jimmy is a fast-talking reporter who falls in love with her. Stewart WON a best supporting actor Academy Award for his role.
March 11-17
“HARVEY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Josephine Hull, and Peggy Dow. Stewart gives one of his best performances as tippler Elwood P. Dowd, whose companion is a six-foot invisible rabbit named Harvey. Stewart was nominated for an Academy Award for his role.
March 18-24
“ANATOMY OF A MURDER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Ben Gazzara and Kathryn Grant (Crosby). Stewart towers over all as a witty, easy going, but cagy defense lawyer in a long, exciting courtroom drama. Stewart was nominated for an Academy Award for his role.
March 25-30 (closed on March 31)
“TWO RODE TOGETHER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark. A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but find that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
April
April 1-7
“THE STRATTON STORY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, and Frank Lovejoy. True story about professional baseball player Monty Stratton whose leg has to be amputated. He makes an inspirational, successful minor-league comeback in 1946.
April 8-14
“NO TIME FOR COMEDY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. A Playwright scores a hit with his first Broadway play. He and his leading lady are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces him to forget about comedy and write a tragedy.
April 15-21
“THE MAN FROM LARAMIE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Arthur Kennedy and Donald Crisp. Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
April 22-28
“OF HUMAN HEARTS”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi and Charles Coburn. A poor and honest man ministers to the human soul, while his son yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm
May
APRIL 29 – MAY 5
“THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS”
Starring Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
MAY 6-12
“SPEED”
Starring James Stewart, and Wendy Barrie. An automotive test driver and his friends struggle to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California’s Muroc Dry Lake.
May 13-19
“THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin and John Wayne. Tenderfoot lawyer Stewart helps civilize the West, but needs help from tough guy Wayne to do so.
May 20-26 (Closed may 27)
“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 28 – June 2
“STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan. An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
June
JUNE 3-9
“THE LAST GANGSTER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Edward G. Robinson and John Carradine. A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
JUNE 10-16
“TAKE HER SHE’S MINE”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Sandra Dee and Audrey Meadows. A father’s attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.
JUNE 17-23
“WINCHESTER “73”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Dan Duryea, Shelly Winters and Rock Hudson. The journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another parallels a cowboy’s search for a murderous fugitive.
JUNE 24-30
“CALL NORTHSIDE 777”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Helen Walker, and Lee J. Cobb. Absorbing drama of reporter Stewart convinced that a convicted killer is innocent, trying to prove it.
July
JULY 1-7 (Closed on July 4)
“SHENANDOAH”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Ross, and Doug McClure. Rousing, well-acted saga of Virginia widower indifferent to War between the States until his family is involved.
JULY 8-14
“MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Hara and Fabian. Mr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them.
JULY 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
JULY 22-28
“THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough and Ernest Borgnine. Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian dessert work together to build a new plane.
August
JULY 29 – AUG 4
“AIRPORT ’77”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant and George Kennedy. Art Thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
AUG 5-11
“BANDOLERO”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Rachel Welch and Dean Martin. Mace Bishop masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother from the gallows.
AUG 12-18
“THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston, and Betty Hutton. Stewart well cast as circus clown with mysterious past. Oscar winner for Best Picture and Story.
AUG 19-25
“THE GORGEOUS HUSSY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore. President Andrew Jackson’s friendship with an innkeeper’s daughter spells trouble for them both.
AUG 26- SEPT 1 (Closed on Sept 2)
“CHEYENNE AUTUMN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Widmark and Karl Malden. The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
September
SEPT 3-8
“THE MURDER MAN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Virgina Bruce and Spencer Tracy. When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man’s associate. One of Stewart’s first roles.
SEPT 9-15
“THE RARE BREED”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Hara and Brian Keith. An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas but have to overcome greedy criminals.
SEPT 16-22
“SEVENTH HEAVEN”
Staring Jimmy Stewart and Simone Simon. A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her on the seventh floor of a flat, and then marches off to war.
SEPT 23-29
“THE MORTAL STORM”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young and Frank Morgan. A family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
October
SEPT 30 – OCT 6
“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 7-13
“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 14-20
“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 21-27
“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 28- NOV 3
“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 4-10
“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 11- 21
“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- DEC 30 (Closed Nov 28, Dec 24, Dec 25, & Dec 31)
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
With James Stewart and Donna Reed
NOV 17-DEC 30 (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