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Silent Film Benefit 2009
May 16, 2009
Thank you to everyone for making our
2009 Silent Film Benefit such a success! The event grossed
over $34,000 thanks to our Sponsors, VIPs, Benefactors, Program Ad
buyers and our event guests!
Over 415 people sat under the twinkling
lights of the Avalon Theatre dome to enjoy this year's feature, the
Douglas Fairbanks Technicolor swashbuckling classic, The Black
Pirate. Robert D. Salisbury gave a bravura performance
on the 80-year old Page Theatre Organ, accompanying the film with
his original score. The audience cheered the hero and hissed
and booed the villians as they were swept along by the story and
music.
Special guests Jeffrey Vance and Tony
Maietta, both film historians and authors, gave a wonderful and
informative introduction to the film. Everyone's favorite
insight into the film was the story about how Fairbanks' wife, Mary
Pickford, quietly stood in for the movie's female star, when the two
characters embrace and kiss at the movie's finale. Despite
careful looking, no one would be able to tell that Mary Pickford
made a brief and intimate appearance in the Black Pirate!
Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta's
beautiful and masterful biography on Fairbanks was just released
early this year and is still available at our Museum Store, as are
the DVD's of The Black Pirate. Call 310-510-2414 ext.
1# to order your copies by phone today!
Stay tuned for
details on the 2010 Silent Movie Benefit!
Pirates Emily Cleveland, Jared
Ruplinger and Jorge Mulgado
Emcee Ron Doutt
Executive Director Stacey Otte
Guest speaker Jeffrey Vance, movie historian and author.
Tony Maietta, movie historian, actor and author
Pictures Courtesy: Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (C)
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