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Screening at 12:00pm Thursdays and 4:00pm Sundays every week (excluding school holidays), the Cameo Classic Calendar features some of Hollywood's finest films from the '30s, '40s, '50s & '60s.
Mark your diaries now for your next 'back to the Cameo' experience!
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Wizard of Oz (G) 98 mins |
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October 9 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
October 12 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Musical |
Director: |
Victor Fleming |
Cast: |
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan |
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When Dorothy's neighbor threatens to take away her precious dog, Toto, Dorothy runs away from home. Attempting to return, she and her house are caught in a twister and blown to the Land of Oz. Dorothy must escape by following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where the great Wizard of Oz can help her return to Kansas. Along the way, Dorothy meets the heartless Tin Man, the brainless Scarecrow, and the courage-less Cowardly Lion, each of whom hopes that the Wizard can offer him what he lacks. [1939. Black & White/ Colour]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Now Voyager (PG) 117 mins |
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October 16 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
October 19 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Romance |
Director: |
Irving Rapper |
Cast: |
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid |
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Tale of an introverted and frightened woman, long crushed by her domineering mother, who visits a psychotherapist to cure her emotional problems. As a result, she undergoes a dramatic transformation, becoming a confident, exciting, and attractive woman. Desperate for the love she has never experienced, she begins a relationship with a married man -- and becomes very attached to his shy, troubled daughter. [1942. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Modern Times (G) 97 mins |
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October 23 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
October 26 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Comedy |
Director: |
Charles Chaplin |
Cast: |
Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard |
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In 'Modern Times', the still-silent Tramp, with his familiar small Derby hat, moustache, large boots, baggy pants, tight jacket and cane makes his last screen appearance. Filmed between 1932 and 1936, it was directed, written, scored, and produced by Chaplin himself - and he also starred in his own 'one-man show' with his current wife and kindred spirit Paulette Goddard. This was Chaplin's first film after his successful City Lights (1931), released nine years after the advent of 'talkies'. [1936. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Old Maid, The (PG) 105 mins |
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October 30 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
November 2 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Drama |
Director: |
Edmund Goulding |
Cast: |
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins |
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Charlotte (Davis) and Delia (Hopkins) are two headstrong sisters who both love the same no-good man. He dies fighting in the Civil War for the Confederacy, but not before fathering Charlotte's illegitimate child. After Delia is widowed, the two wile away their days together as old ladies in a big, ornate mansion, arguing over how to best raise the growing girl, while a strict moral code demands Charlotte not acknowledge the child as her own. All the actors are sensational; by the time the movie ends, if the viewer is left with a single tear unshed, it's not for these great ladies' lack of trying, or Edmund Goulding's direction, which is positively purple with Southern Gothic magic and airy intimacy. [1939. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)] |
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A Day At The Races (TBA) |
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November 6 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
November 9 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Comedy |
Director: |
Sam Wood |
Cast: |
The Marx Brothers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Maragaret Dumont |
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Judy Standish (O'Sullivan), a woman whose sanitarium is about to be foreclosed upon, begs for help from rich patient Emily Updike (Dumont). Updike agrees to save the sanitarium but demands that her favorite medical practitioner, Dr. Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho), a horse doctor by trade, be placed in charge. Chico, a racing tipster, and Harpo, a jockey, find faith in Hackenbush when they discover that the good doctor is a fraud, so the trio sets off to defeat the nasty bankers who continue to scheme for the sanitarium. [1937. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Philadelphia Story, The (PG) 120 mins |
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November 13 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
November 16 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Romantic Comedy |
Director: |
George Cukor |
Cast: |
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart |
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The Philadelphia Story is an intelligent, sophisticated, classic romantic comedy-farce of love and marriage, human growth and class distinctions. Its screenplay is a witty, sparkling, and bright adaptation of Philip Barry's Broadway hit play. The film earned six major Academy Award nominations including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Jimmy Stewart won the Academy Award for Best Actor (his sole career Best Actor Oscar) for his role as Macauley Connor - a tabloid reporter for 'Spy' Magazine. [1940. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Pillow Talk (G) 110 mins |
Screening: |
December 30 2004 at dusk
November 20 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
November 23 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Romantic Comedy |
Director: |
Michael Gordon |
Cast: |
Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall |
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Due to a shortage of telephone trunk lines, songwriter Brad Allen and interior decorator Jan Morrow are forced to share a 'party line.' The two take an immediate dislike to each other since Jan considers Brad a playboy who ties up the line constantly making romantic overtures to a variety of women, while Brad considers Jan a sexually frustrated prude who has nothing better to do than snoop into his private affairs. But when Brad discovers how attractive the other half of his party line is, he devises a plan to seduce her by masquerading as a virtuous Texan. [1959. Colour]
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Irma La Douce (PG) 150 mins |
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November 27 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
November 30 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Comedy |
Director: |
Billy Wilder |
Cast: |
Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine |
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Naive, by-the-book French police officer Nester Patou is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station and organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. This unfortunately disrupts the well-organized system of the police and the Pimps union, not to mention inadvertently netting his station superior at the brothel. Fired, he goes to a bar to drink, is befriended by Irma, beats up her pimp, and finds he is now Irma's new pimp. Nester doesn't like the thought of his girl seeing other men, so comes up with a plan. [1963. Colour]
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Shop Around The Corner, The (TBA) 110 mins |
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December 4 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
December 7 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Romantic Comedy |
Director: |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Cast: |
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan |
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In far off, interwar Budapest, the intricately connected employees of an upscale shop live out their little, charmed lives. At the center of the story lives an Assistant Manager (James Stewart) who does not know that the woman with whom he is exchanging love letters is, in fact, his newest employee (Margaret Sullavan). Samson Raphaelson's perfectly plotted script is impeccably realized. [1940. Black & White]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Party, The (PG) 110 mins |
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December 11 2008 at 12:00:00 PM
December 14 2008 at 4:00:00 PM
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Genre: |
Comedy |
Director: |
Blake Edwards |
Cast: |
Peter Sellers |
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Hollywood mogul Fred Clutter Buck isn't just giving a party, he's giving THE party. Absolutely everyone who's anyone will be there: gorgeous models, ravishing starlets, powerful producers - even a baby elephant! And by mistaken invitation, accident-prone Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi (Sellers) will be there, too. This uproariously funny send-up of tinseltown snobbery pairs the trademark antics of Sellers with shrewd comic timing from director/producer/co-writer Blake Edwards, one of Sellers's most fertile collaborators. [1968. Colour] |
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