Film Festival: Art Deco Located in decadent pre-war Berlin, Grand Hotel is an art deco treasure, where music is always playing and the people are always beautiful. The film Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Oscar in 1932 and is still a winner today. “I just want to be alone.” — Greta Garbo as Lizibeta Grusinskaya Grand…
Joan Crawford
Our Dancing Daughters 20s party: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Silent Greats In Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Joan Crawford is the epitome of the Charleston-dancing flapper, one of the most enduring images of the time. The flapper became the quintessential symbol of the Jazz Age, that era of boundless freedom after World War I. Women insisted on more autonomy, manifested in the loosening…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: The Women classic film
Film Festival: Vices Try The Women if you like to revel in juicy gossip. An all-star ensemble cast featuring Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, and Paulette Goddard, the women mew and claw their way through a variety of misadventures in Connecticut, New York and Nevada. Part of the story takes place in…