EXHIBITS

Catalina Island Plein Air Painting

Jan. 30 - June 7, 2009

 

EVENTS

Silent Film Benefit

May 16

 

Round the Island with

Doug Bombard & Friends

POSTPONED UNTIL

October 8

 

Tuna Club Tours

May 30


 

 

 

 
 

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)

Gold Sponsors


Connolly-Pacific Corp.

 

 

 

 

Silver Sponsors

 

 

Business Sponsors

Avalon Rotary Club

 

 

  


 

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