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Stella Dallas Golden Silents Friday, February 13, 2009 at 7pm Superb 35mm archive print! Belle Bennett stars as an ambitious woman who marries above her station but must give up everything for the happiness of her daughter. Co-starring Ronald Colman and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. With live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne, one of the U.K.’s leading silent film accompanists. After the screening, there will be a Meet the Artist Reception in the Furman Gallery with complimentary beer, wine, soft drinks and hor d’oeuvres. Olive Higgins Prouty’s celebrated novel was most famously adapted for the big screen by King Vidor, in the Barbara Stanwyck weepie of 1937. But this original, classically elegant silent version is by many accounts an even greater film. Belle Bennett gives an unforgettable, heart-wrenching title performance, as an ambitious woman who marries above her station but must give up everything for the happiness of her daughter. The finale is one of the most moving sequences in cinema history. Stella Dallas Henry King, USA, 1925; 120m Stephen Horne is based at London's National Film Theatre, and has played at prominent U.K. venues including the Barbican Centre and Tate Modern. He regularly performs internationally, including accompanying The Film Society’s screening of A Cottage on Dartmoor in 2006. The year-round Golden Silents series is made possible through the generosity of the Ira M. Resnick Foundation. Golden Silents is programmed by Sayre Maxfield.

Buy Tickets Fri Feb 13: 7 Admission: $15 public $13 senior (62+) $12 member/student Online service charge: $1.25 per ticket ordered. Cash only transactions at the box office. No passes accepted to this event.