Matinees
The Jimmy Stewart Museum Presents
Matinees In The Reschini Group Theater
Every week at 1:00 PM on the 3rd Floor
February
Feb 2-8
“MADE FOR EACH OTHER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard. While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.
Feb 9-15
“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.
Feb 16-22
“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.
Feb 23-Mar 1
“ROSE MARIE”
Starring Jeannette McDonald, Nelson Eddy, Jimmy Stewart an incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
March
March 2-8
“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.
March 9-15
“THE MURDER MAN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Virginia 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.
March 16-22
“SEVENTH HEAVEN”
Starring 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.
March 23-29
“THE FAR COUNTRY”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Ruth Roman and Walter Brennan. A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.
April
MAR 30- APRIL 5
“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 6-12
“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.
April 13-19
“TWO RODE TOGETHER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. 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 20-26
“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.
May
April 27-May 3
“DEAR BRIGETTE”
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.
MAY 4-10
“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.
May 11-17
“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 18-24
“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 25-31
“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
June
JUNE 1-7
“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.
JUNE 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.
JUNE 15-21
“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 22-28
“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.
July
JUNE 29 – JULY 5
“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.
JULY 6-12
“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 13-19
“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 20-26
“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.
August
JULY 27 – AUG 3
“THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS”
Starring Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make the first solo transatlantic crossing.
AUG 3-9
“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 untrustworthy strangers.
AUG 10-16
“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 sta
AUG 17-23
“HOW THE WEST WAS WON”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck. A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads
AUG 24-30
“ANATOMY OF A MURDER”
Starring Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara an upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife.
September
AUG 31 – SEPT 6
“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.
SEPT 7-13
“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.
SEPT 14-20
“DESTRY RIDES AGAIN”
Starring Jimmy Stewart Marlene Dietrich. Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
SEPT 21-27
“THE MORTAL STORM”
Starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small Alpine village until they are divided by the Nazi regime and a friend is caught up in the turmoil.
October
SEPT 28 – OCT 4
“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 5-11
“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 12-18
“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 19-25
“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 26- NOV 1
“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 2-8
“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 9- 18
“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 19- JAN 10
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
December
Playing Everyday November 19 – January 10
AT 10:30 AM
GE THEATER’S “THE TRAIL TO CHRISTMAS”
A Cowboy version of Christmas Carol starring Jimmy Stewart & Introduced by Ronald Reagan. Exclusive showing only at The Jimmy Stewart Museum & The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
AT 11:30 AM
“THE MAKING OF IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
Documentary about the making of the classic holiday film It’s a Wonderful Life narrated by Tom Bosley.
AT 1 PM
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.