RETROCLASSICS
Select Wednesdays at 7pm in Cinema One | $10 per person.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT
(1959, 121 min)
Last screened at Retro in 2019!
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness a gangland shooting, they quickly board a train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest and homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect... until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for Josephine, an ancient playboy falls for Daphne, and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Walter Lang’s DESK SET
(1957, 103 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Retro Classics proudly presents this ultra-rare theatrical screening from the Walt Disney/20th Century Fox library! Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is a library reference clerk stuck in a dead-end relationship with a boring television executive (Gig Young). Her life is thrown into turmoil when computer expert Richard Summers (Spencer Tracy) enters it. He has been assigned with automating her department, and she is fearful that Summers' new computers will automate her out of a job. She despises him at first, but eventually each of the two start to fall for the other's charms and strong personalities.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Douglas Sirk’s IMITATION OF LIFE
(1959. 125 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Lora Meredith (Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black widow. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Suzie (Sandra Dee), while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Suzie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), struggles with her African-American identity.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Vincente Minnelli’s THE LONG, LONG TRAILER
(1954, 96 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
“They’re In The Movies NOW!” proclaimed MGM’s ads heralding the arrival on the big movie screen of America’s favorite television couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Filmed between seasons of their landmark sitcom, “I Love Lucy”, this film gave 1954 audiences a chance to see Lucy and Desi in a first-class comedy. Instead of being Lucy & Ricky as on TV, they play newlyweds who begin their wedded bliss traveling with their not-so-mobile home, an enormous trailer. The studio’s concerns over whether or not audiences would pay to see Lucy & Desi on the big screen were happily unfounded. The film was one of MGM’s biggest box office hits of 1954 and continues to be a favorite of audiences of all ages.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Ida Lupino’s THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS
(1966, 111 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Hayley Mills stars in this delightful comedy about two mischievous students who turn a convent school upside-down with their pranks. Hayley Mills plays Mary Clancy, who, with her best friend Rachel Devery (June Harding), succeeds in driving the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) to distraction with an endless number of practical jokes. Just when there appears to be no hope for the school's two most incorrigible students, they get a little help from Sisters Celestine (Binnie Barnes) and Constance (Camilla Sparv). During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. It's habit-forming entertainment for the whole family!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Peter Godfrey’s CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT
(1945, 101 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a famous expert on marriage, cooking and homemaking who is asked by her publisher to host a national hero for Christmas dinner at her famous Connecticut home. It should be simple, but she must scramble to keep the secret that she's single, can't cook and doesn't own a home. With a lot of help, meticulous planning and split-second timing, the urban sophisticate may succeed . . . but the unforeseen happens when she falls in love with her guest in this classic romantic comedy.
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