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Hop Film: The Marriage Circle with live piano accompaniment by Bob Merrill

Ernest Lubitsch's second American silent film is a mélange of marital missteps and misunderstandings, a merry-go-round for grown-ups.

Sunday, May 1, 2022
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Films
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

This landmark silent film marked Ernst Lubitsch's transition to the sophisticated sex comedies that would define his American career, making him one of Hollywood's most revered and successful directors and producers. Inspired by Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, The Marriage Circle was reputedly Lubitsch's favorite of all his films—and that includes such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, The Shop Around the Corner and To Be or Not To Be! 

The movie tells of a happy marriage threatened by outside flirtations, perceived infidelities and a snooping detective. It is a modern comedy of manners as well as a comedy about modern manners. It will play out on a polite, well-behaved surface, but sex—to do or not to do—is boiling underneath and on everyone's mind. D: Ernest Lubitsch, US, 1924

Live piano accompaniment by Upper Valley's beloved musician Bob Merrill. 

Restored by The Museum of Modern Art, with the financial support of Matthew and Natalie Bernstein.

 

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
hopkins.center.for.the.arts@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2422
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