# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend: OKAY, AMERICA! (1932) in 35mm ?️ w/ intro + book signing
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: OKAY, AMERICA! (1932) in 35mm w/ intro by film historian Danny Reid 

Reid and Kim Luperi will sign copies of their book “Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Years, 1930–1934” — available for purchase at the Silver concession stand — before and after the show

Lew Ayres stars as a fast-talking tabloid gossip columnist and radio broadcaster — a power broker and provocateur clearly modeled on real-life newspaperman Walter Winchell (who, 25 years later, also inspired the ruthless Burt Lancaster character in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS). This was the first Hollywood feature to directly reflect the national trauma of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and one of four Winchell-inspired films released within a five-month span in 1932. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) of a cabinet secretary is abducted, Ayres’ character leverages his underworld connections to track down the racketeers responsible. He then uses his political clout to relay the gang’s demands — via mob boss (Edward Arnold in his talkie debut) — directly to the president. Shifting gears from sharp satire to gripping melodrama, the film, much like THIS DAY AND AGE, ultimately implies that the government lacks the ability to confront organized crime, leaving vigilante-style justice as the only recourse. NOT RATED

Part of AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend. For the full lineup visit: 
https://silver.afi.com/classic-film-weekend/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/silver-spring/afi-silver-classic-film-weekend-okay-america-1932-in-35mm-️-w-intro-book-signing/200029140255542
- **Event Categories**: entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005269/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=silver+spring-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Silver Spring
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
- **lat**: 38.99646858229
- **long**: -77.0273440269
- **full address**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3916, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (https://allevents.in/org/afi-silver-theatre-and-cultural-center/26017959)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3916, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment
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