Double Feature
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
One of Paramount’s funniest films of the forties is this Preston Sturges screwball classic starring Betty Hutton (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Eddie Bracken (Hail the Conquering Hero). Hutton is Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town gal who feels it is her patriotic duty to dance the night away with soldiers who are headed overseas. But after too many glasses of “victory lemonade,” Trudy jitterbugs right into a chandelier – and awakens the next morning to find a mysterious wedding ring on her finger, and no recollection of her new “husband”! That’s when she decides to find a quick, surrogate spouse and sets her sights on her lovelorn, childhood friend, Norval Jones (Bracken). This frantic, audacious comedy hit landed Sturges a 1944 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. (Paramount)
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Starring
- Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall
- Year
- 1944
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 99 minutes
Christmas in July
If you can’t sleep at night, it isn’t the coffee – it’s the bunk! Tricked into thinking he won $25,000 in a slogan writing contest, an ambitious office clerk and his girlfriend go on a raucous spending spree. But when the ruse is discovered, it will have hilarious consequences. Dick Powell & Ellen Drew star in a screwball comedy classic from writer-director Preston Sturges.
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Starring
- Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Ernest Truex
- Year
- 1940
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 67 minutes