The Grand Shouts “Hooray for ‘Hollywood’!”

Ellsworth, Maine - The Grand announces the lineup for its monthly “Classic Hollywood Films” series beginning on Sunday, January 4th at 2 pm and concluding in April. Ticket prices for each movie and are $5 per person, general admission .

What’s better than getting out of the cold and into a warm theater and seeing the best that Hollywood has offered from the past decades? In 2015, The Grand offers everyone the opportunity to see classic films the way they were meant to be seen – projected on a giant screen, larger than life – films that are appropriate all ages, so you can bring the whole family. Titles for 2015 monthly Sunday matinees are:

January 4th –  North by Northwest. One of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thrillers, the story of
advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant)  who finds that he has stepped into an espionage nightmare – facing ruthless villains (James Mason, Martin Landau), a mysterious femme fatale (Eve Marie Saint), and perhaps, even worst of all –  his mother (Jesse Royce Landis)!

February 15th –  Funny Face. This Gershwin musical is the story of fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire playing a character based on Richard Avedon, the film’s “visual consultant”), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a “new face” –  Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk.

March 8th – The Searchers.  John Ford directs what many consider his greatest film. John Wayne stars in this classic tale of obsession, playing Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who returns to his brother Aaron’s frontier cabin after the Civil War to discover his brother and sister-in-law dead and their two daughters kidnapped. Ethan soon learns that only one of the girls (Natalie Wood) is still alive, and with obsessive determination, he spends the next five years in a relentless search for her – and for Scar (Henry Brandon), the fearsome Comanche chief who abducted her.

April 13th – Doctor Zhivago. David Lean directs this epic film (based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak) which covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots intertwine within the film’s 197 minutes (plus intermission). Julie Christie plays Lara, Dr. Zhivago’s love.

So bring a friend, come out of the cold, and share the experience of seeing Hollywood’s classic movies the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen – at The Grand’s monthly “Classic Hollywood Films” beginning in January, 2015.

The “Classic Hollywood Films” is part of the film program at The Grand which includes “The 3rd Annual Silent Film Event” on January 10th at 7 pm. TEMPO (The Eastern Maine Pops Orchestra for Young Musicians) will play an original score by orchestra leader Rebecca Edmondson as an accompaniment to a screening of Harold Lloyd’s silent comedy classic Safety Last!

For more information on these or other Grand events, please call the box office at 207-667-9500 or visit The Grand website at www.grandonline.org or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Grand-Auditorium/112755987339