As part of the "She Loves Me" film festival, the will screen In the Good Old Summertime at 2:30pm Saturday, April 24, in the McManus Room.
The film is the story of feuding co-workers in a small music shop who do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals. This musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner features Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Buster Keaton, and a young Liza Minnelli, and was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. (1949, 102 minutes)
The film festival is in conjunction with the Westport Country Playhouse's production of the play She Loves Me, with dialogue by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, from April 20-May 8.
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See three classic films with different versions of the same story, a story that clearly has not lost any of its interest from the 1930s (when the original play premiered) to the early sixties (when the musical premiered) to the internet age (with You've Got Mail). Each movie will be introduced by the Playhouse's Associate Artistic Director David Kennedy.
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