100 Years of Norman Lloyd

November 21 - 23, 2014 - Aero Theatre, Santa Monica, CA

Norman Lloyd in person!

Centennial celebrations are nothing new at the Cinematheque - but this is the first time we’ve ever had the honoree in person! Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1914, Norman Lloyd began working as an actor onstage in New York and was a member of Orson Welles and John Houseman’s legendary Mercury Theater company before the siren’s call of film lured him to Hollywood.

Lloyd’s first screen role was the villainous Frank Fry in Alfred Hitchcock’s SABOTEUR. It was the beginning of a long professional relationship with the master of suspense; years later Lloyd served as an associate producer and director on the TV series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” Television also would provide Lloyd with his most recognizable role - he played Dr. Daniel Auschlander on six seasons of the medical drama “St. Elsewhere” in the 1980s.

In a career that spans most of movie history, Lloyd has worked with some of its greatest filmmakers, including Charlie Chaplin (LIMELIGHT) and Martin Scorsese (THE AGE OF INNOCENCE). And he remains active, playing a WWII veteran in the 2014 indie A PLACE FOR HEROES.

Series also includes a new restoration of A WALK IN THE SUN.

Series programmed by Gwen Deglise, Grant Moninger and John Hagelston. Program notes by John Hagelston.

We are thrilled to welcome Norman Lloyd to the Aero Theatre with a double feature of SABOTEUR and A WALK IN THE SUN!

THE SERIES:

Friday, November 21 - 7:30PM

SABOTEUR (1942)

Alfred Hitchcock transfers the successful formula of his British films to Hollywood by telling yet another story of a falsely accused man on the run. This time it’s Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, an aircraft worker who is blamed for an explosion at his factory. As Kane hunts down the real saboteurs, Hitchcock uses his familiar chase structure to justify slyly satirical musings on patriotism and its flipside, paranoid ideas that culminate in the wonderful climax set on top of the Statue of Liberty. Norman Lloyd co-stars as one of the most wickedly engaging villains in the Hitchcock oeuvre.

A WALK IN THE SUN (1945 - Restored)

A platoon of WWII soldiers is sent to blow up an Italian bridge and casualties mount as they encounter enemy planes and machine guns - as well as increasing tensions among themselves. Widely considered to be one of the best and most realistic World War II movies, this classic features stellar work from Norman Lloyd, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte and others.

35mm prints

Sunday, November 23 - 7:30PM

LIMELIGHT (1952)

In this nostalgic but never maudlin swan song, Charlie Chaplin channels the riotous music-hall culture of his youth. An intensely personal film complete with recollections of his parents as well as his children in cameo roles, LIMELIGHT also features the one-time-only onscreen pairing of Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

35mm print

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