Matinees

The Jimmy Stewart Museum Presents

Matinees In The Reschini Group Theater

Every week at 1:00 PM on the 3rd Floor

January

Jan 2-8

“YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, and Eddie Albert. A comedy about a millionaire who runs off on her wedding night to find new marriage.

 

Jan 9-15

“YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore. When Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) agrees to marry Tony Kirby (James Stewart), she has no choice but to invite his wealthy parents over for dinner.

 

Jan 16-22

“1936 production of “WIFE Vs SECRETARY””

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Clark Gable, an attractive business man, hires a flirty, flaunty secretary to help
him organize his hectic schedule, much to his adoring wife’s chagrin. Filled with laughter around every corner, a small misunderstanding turns into an all-out romantic comedy.

 

Jan 23-29

“COME LIVE WITH ME”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, and Ian Hunter. Charming romantic comedy with starving writer Stewart marrying Lamarr so she will evade deportation. Filled with romantic notes of laughter and adventure.

February

JAN 30 – Feb 5

“THE SHOPWORN ANGEL”

Voices of Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, and Walter Pidgeon. Naive soldier falls in love with a loose-moraled actress.

 

Feb 6-12

“VIVACIOUS LADY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Ginger Rogers, and Charles Coburn. Professor Stewart is trying to break the news to his convervative family and his fiancee of his marriage to a nightclub singer.

 

Feb 13-19

“BROKEN ARROW”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler, and Debra Paget. By 1870, there have been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise’s Apache’s. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apache’s.

 

Feb 20-26

“THUNDER BAY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Joanne Dru, and Dan Duryea. Action-packed account of oil-drillers vs. Louisiana shrimp fishermen.

March

FEB 27 – March 5

MALAYA

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy and Valentina Cortese Routine WW2 melodrama set in the Pacific, about Allies’ efforts to smuggle out rubber.

 

March 5-12

1940 production of “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.

 

March 13-19

1952 production of “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

 

March 20-26

“THE FBI STORY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, and Murray Hamilton. A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organzied crime and Communist spies.

 

March 27-April 2

“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.

April

April 3-8

“OF HUMAN HEARTS”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Beulah Bondi, and Charles Colburn. Odd blend of potent 19 th – century Americana and mile-high corn, in tale of dedicated preacher who never established rapport with his son.

 

April 10-16

“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.

 

April 17-23

“CALL NORTHSIDE”

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.

 

April 24-30

“NIGHT PASSAGE”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Audie Murphy, and Dan Duryea. A fired railroad man is rehired and trusted to carry a $10,000 pay roll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.

 

May

May 1-7

“NAVY BLUE and GOLD”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Florence Rice and Robert Young. A hackneyed but entertaining saga of three pals (one rich and innocent, one a cynic, and one mysterious “with a past”) going to Annapolis

 

MAY 8-14

“THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX”

Starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough , and Robert Aldrich. James Stewart stars as the captain of a plane that has crashed in the desert and must be fixed on the double before all crew members die.

 

May 15-21

“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.

 

May 22-28

“THE GLENN MILLER STORY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, and Harry Morgan. Stewart is convincingly cast as the popular bandleader in this sentimental account of his life.

June

MAY 29- JUNE 4

“THE NAKED SPUR”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Janet Leigh, and Robert Ryan. One of the best westerns ever made: a tough, hard little film about self-styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, stirs tension among Stewart’s newly acquired “partners”. 

 

JUNE 5-11

“CARBINE WILLIAMS”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Wendell Corey, and James Arness.History of the inventor of the famous rifle, his problems with the law, and his simple family life.

 

JUNE 12-18

“THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, and John Wayne. Tenderfoot lawyer Stewart helps civilize the West, but needs help from he-man Wayne to do so.

 

JUNE 19-25

“NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, and Glynis Johns. Jimmy stars as an aeronautical engineer who predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically after a specific number of flying hours.

 

JUNE 26-JULY 4

“THE MOUNTAIN ROAD”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Lisa Lu, and James Best. A U.S. Army Major is tasked with destroying bridges and roads useful to the enemy during World War II.

July

JULY 5-9

“BEND OF THE RIVER”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Julie Adams and Arthur Kennedy. Western of 1840s Oregon with conflict between Stewart, outlaw turned wagon–train scout, and Kennedy, his one–time comrade who steals settlers’ supplies.

 

JULY 10-16

“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 17-23

“DESTRY RIDES AGAIN”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Winninger. Action-filled Western, with Stewart taming a rowdy town without violence and tangling with a boisterous dance-hall girl.

 

JULY 24-30

“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

August

JULY 31 – AUG 6

“TAKE HER SHE’S MINE”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Sandra Dee, and Audrey Meadows. Family comedy with Stewart the harried father of wild teen-age daughter.

 

AUG 7-13

“FIRECREEK”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fond, and Inger Stevens. Stewart as a mild-manner part-time sheriff in a small town terrorized by Fonda and fellow plunderers.

 

AUG 14-20

“IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Claudette Colbert, and Edgar Kennedy. A screwball comedy with Colbert as a runaway poetess, Stewart a fugitive chased by cops, Kennedy and Pendleton.

 

AUG 21-27

“HOW THE WEST WAS WON”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard and All-Star cast. Blockbuster epic about three generations of Western pioneers.

 

AUG 28- SEPT 3

“STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, and Frank Lovejoy. Jimmy as a professional baseball player getting recalled to Air Force duty; with June Allyson as his wife. 

September

SEPT 5-10

“ON OUR MERRY WAY”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard, and Henry Fonda. Jimmy and Henry are at the peak of their form as a pair of impoverished swing band musicians who attempt to change their luck by rigging a talent contest.

SEPT 11-17

“MAGIC TOWN”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Jane Wyman, and Kent Smith. Intriguing satire of pollster Stewart finding perfect average American town, which ruins itself when people are told his discovery.

 

SEPT 18-24

“THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB”

Staring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Jones.

 

SEPT 25 – OCT 1

“ZIEGFELD GIRL”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland. Story of three girls being recruited as Ziegfeld Follies girls and their lives change forever.

October

OCT 2-8

“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 9-15

“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.

 

OCT 16-22

“ROPE”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall.Two thrill seeking friends strangle a classmate and then holda party for their victim’s family and friends.

 

OCT 23-29

“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.

November

OCT 31- NOV 6

“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 6-16

“THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER”

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, & Frank Morgan. A graceful period comedy about co–workers in a Budapest notions shop.

 

NOV 7-30

“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”

With James Stewart and Donna Reed

 

NOV 18-DEC 30

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