Evento

SILENT SALON : Picnic and Silent Film with Live Organ

Summer is upon us and so is Silent Salon, our annual silent film event. Bring friends and family, make it a surprise date, or entertain guests from out of town with a true L.A. experience. Enjoy a picnic in our gorgeous, newly landscaped garden, watch the sunset over the Pacific Ocean and file into our salon for silent films with Live organ and piano accompaniment.

Ernst Lubitsch arrived in Hollywood in 1922. He was 30 years old. He soon achieved fame for his class comedies, expressing the unspeakable with a twinkle in the eye, clever editing and suggestiv dialogue making any and all attempts of censorship impossible.
The German Lubitsch is less widely known, however, his more sweeping comedic effects are well worth rediscovering

Saturday, July 28 @ 8:00 p.m
BEFORE THE LUBITSCH TOUCH

THE DOLL (Die Puppe)
(Germany, 1919, 66 min., starring Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson and Ernst Lubitsch)

Baron de Chanterelle, afraid for his lineage, implores his nephew Lancelot to get married. Shy Lancelot, however, cant deal with the onslaught of candidates, his uncle is recruiting and flees into a monastery. When the monks hear, that there is a dowry to be expected, they suggest to Lancelot to just marry a doll. After the wedding ceremony the bride turns out to be much more alive than expected.