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- The Song of Bernadette
The Stephen Crane House
Sunday, January 17 at 4:00pm
The Stephen Crane House Last month marked the passing of the wonderful actress and philanthropist, Jennifer Jones, who was born in 1919. She won an Oscar for her very first starring role in “Song of Bernadette” (1943). At the Stephen Crane House, on Sunday, January 17, at 4 PM we will screen the “Song of Bernadette”, (156 min., B&W, 20th Cent...ury Fox). This very long but engrossing film was directed by Henry King and is about the French girl Bernadette Soubirous, who saw a great vision in 1858. It won three other Oscars, including one for cinematography, and one for its great score by Alfred Newman. It also stars Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, and the great Gladys Cooper. There is limited seating, so If you'd like to attend, please e-mail me at cranehousereservations@gmail.com Light refreshments will be provided. There is no admission charge, but any donations in cash or check will go to the Asbury Park Little League
Time:4:00PM Sunday, January 17th
Location:The Stephen Crane House
The Stephen Crane House Sunday, November 1 is the 138th birthday of Stephen Crane, who would certainly appreciate the irony that it is also All Saints' Day. That afternoon, we will have our annual Crane celebration, complete with birthday cake. At 4 PM we will have a reading of one of Stephen's war correspondent stories, "The Lone Charge of W...illiam B. Perkins". It was written in Cuba for the July, 1899 edition of McClure's Magazine, a copy of which was graciously donated to the Crane House library by Kate Mellina. The short article details an incident during the U.S. Marines taking of Guantanamo during the Spanish-American War. At 4:30 we will have a screening of the great director John Huston's 1950 movie version of "The Red Badge of Courage" (MGM,b&w, 69 min.). There is no admission charge, but any and all proceeds, cash or check, will go to the Asbury Park Little League (after all, one of Stephen's great passions was baseball, and as a youngster in Asbury Park, it was said that he could catch any baseball without a glove!). Due to limitations of space, I'd appreciate an e-mail response to cranehousereservations@gmail.com.
Time:4:00PM Sunday, November 1st
Location:The Stephen Crane House
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The Stephen Crane House At 5 PM on Sunday, October 4, 2009, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the Stephen Crane House will present a screening of “Francesco, Giullare di Dio” (translation: “Francis, God's Jester” and American title: “Flowers of St. Francis”). Directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1950, the film is not at all a total biography o...f the saint but rather a low budget, sweet, series of modest vignettes about St. Francis and his followers appropriately using non-professionals in those roles in the Italian neo-realist tradition of the period. The screening of the film (with subtitles, black and white, 89 min., screenplay co-written by Federico Fellini!) will be followed by complimentary light refreshments. No donation required, but a suggested donation of at least $5 (cash or check) will go to the Monmouth County ASPCA. If you plan on attending, because of limited seating, kindly e-mail me at cranehousereservations@gmail.com.
Time:5:00PM Sunday, October 4th
Location:The Stephen Crane House
The Stephen Crane House
On Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 2 PM, the Stephen Crane House proudly presents “A Sunday Afternoon of Song”. Delightful soprano JoAnn Baiano-Roy will sing a variety of operatic arias, Broadway show tunes, and Neapolitan songs. She will be accompanied on the piano by Ms. Liliya Khobotkova who studied at the Moscow ...Conservatory. Following the recital, you are welcome to join us in a complimentary light buffet and refreshments.
Because of the special nature of this performance and the very limited seating (30) at the Crane House, this will be by paid reservations only. Tickets will be $15 in advance by check or money order made out to the artist, JoAnn Baiano-Roy.
To reserve, please send an e-mail to cranehousereservations@gmail.com. A return e-mail will confirm whether seats are still available. Upon this confirmation, check or money order sent to Stephen Crane House, 508 4th Ave., Asbury Park, NJ 07712, must be received within five days in order to hold your reservation. Please make out checks or money orders to JoAnn Baiano-Roy. Tickets will then be held at the door.
Time:2:00PM Sunday, September 20th
Location:The Stephen Crane House
The Stephen Crane House
Born a Century Ago,
Carole Lombard,
Brightest Star of
Hollywood's Golden Age
"No American novelist of the past half-century has created a woman character one-tenth as fascinating as Carole Lombard."
--Andrew Sarris
At 5 PM we will screen "No Man of Her Own" (1932, 85 min. B&W) also starring Clark Gable.
At 6:45 we will screen... "To Be or Not to Be", (1942, 99 min., B&W) also starring Jack Benny and Robert Stack.
Come for either film or both!
Refreshments will be provided.
Please e-mail or call 732-775-5682 if you plan to attend.
All proceeds will go to the Asbury Park Little League.
Time:5:00PM Sunday, August 16th
Location:the Stephen Crane House
The Stephen Crane House The Stephen Crane House website is up and running (though with minimal content)
thestephencranehouse.org
The Stephen Crane House
This July marks Papa Hemingway’s 110th birthday. It’s also the month of the “Running of the Bulls” in Pamplona, Spain, the setting for much of “The Sun Also Rises.” Since Hemingway often cited Stephen Crane as one of his greatest influences*, we’re celebrating Hemingway by reading one of his short stories (“Soldier’s H...ome”, 1925) and then screening 20th Century Fox’s “The Sun also Rises” (1957, 130 minutes, color, Cinemascope), one of Tyrone Power’s and Errol Flynn’s last films, also starring the beautiful Ava Gardner. Sunday, July 26: 5 PM--reading of the short story, and 6 PM--the film. Come for either or both. Refreshments provided. There is no admission charge, but all proceeds will go to the Asbury Park Little League. If you plan to attend, kindly e-mail asburycheech@yahoo.com
* In his book "Stephen Crane, Journalism , and the Making of Modern American Literature", author Michael Robertson quotes Hemingway as saying “The good writers are Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. That’s not the order they’re good in. There is no order for good writers.”
Because he'll only turn 110 once...
Time:5:00PM Sunday, July 26th
Location:The Stephen Crane House
The Stephen Crane House
In honor of this June's 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, the Stephen Crane House will present on Friday, June 19th, an evening with "The Boys in the Band"
This is how Turner Classic Movies describes the film:
"In 1968, an Off-Broadway play about a birthday party attended by a group of homosexual men made theatrical hist...ory by becoming the first play to deal honestly with gay urban life. The party brings together a group of misfits that have become clichés -- the self-loathing alcoholic, the bitchy queen, the flamboyant sissy, the stud-for-hire - for an evening of truth-telling. The film version of The Boys in the Band (1970), starring the play's original cast, has also become a landmark in the history of gays in film. Like many historical artifacts, it now seems dated in its attitudes. But the film's significance is undoubted, and its wicked wit is still intact." ... "Writing about a revival of the film in 1999, San Francisco Chronicle critic Edward Guthmann put it in perspective: 'In the attitudes of its characters, and their self-lacerating vision of themselves, it belongs to another time. And that's a good thing.'"
We will screen the movie itself at 7:30 PM. For those who wish to see a short perspective on the film, we will screen an interview about it at 7 PM. As usual, there is no admission fee, but any and all donations (cash or check) will go to The Center in Asbury Park. There will be refreshments available, and folks are welcome to stay after the film as well in order to discuss it. I am grateful to our listmate Mario for providing the DVD of the film!
