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Arcada Silent Film Night: The Penalty accompanied live by Jay Warren on the historic Arcada Organ
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesArcada Silent Film Night: Pandora’s Box accompanied live by Jay Warren on the historic Arcada Organ
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Arcada Silent Film Night: Robin Hood accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesRobin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, is the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. It was one of the most expensive films of the 1920s, with a budget estimated at approximately one million dollars. The film was a smash hit! Accompanying the...
During the Art Show : Silent Film Comedies featuring Jay Warren on our 90 Year Old Pipe Organ!
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesExperience the magic of Silent Cinema at the Arcada Theatre this Saturday during the St. Charles Art Show. Live accompaniment by Jay Warren on the historic Arcada Pipe Organ.
Arcada Silent Film Night: Manslaughter accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesManslaughter is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, and Lois Wilson. It was written by Jeanie MacPherson and is based upon the novel of the same name by Alice Duer Miller. Society-girl thrill seeker Lydia causes the death of a motorcycle policeman and is...
Arcada Silent Film Night: “The White Sister” accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesThe White Sister is a 1923 American drama film starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman, directed by Henry King, and released by Metro Pictures. It’s based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Francis Marion Crawford. Angela Chiaromonte (Lillian Gish) and Captain Giovanni Severini (Ronald Colman) are deeply in love, but Angela’s wealthy father, Prince Chiaromonte, does not know this and arranges her...
Arcada Silent Film Night: The Bells accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesBUY NOW The Bells is a 1926 American crime thriller film directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and featuring Boris Karloff. Mathias, an innkeeper with several other businesses, seeks to be burgomaster of a small Austrian hamlet. One evening a Polish Jew enters Mathias’ inn. The man displays a money belt filled with gold, which Mathias, having had...
Arcada Silent Film Night: Hula accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesBUY NOW Hula (1927), based on the novel Hula, a Romance of Hawaii by Armine von Tempski, is an American silent romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming. The film stars Clara Bow as Hula Calhoun, who is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun (Albert Gran). She follows the advice of her uncle...
Arcada Silent Film Night: The Phantom of the Opera accompanied live by Jay Warren
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesBUY NOW 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Phantom of the Opera), directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman...
Laurel and Hardy Film Festival
Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United StatesBUY NOW There will be $10 tickets for the film festival only, or $25 tickets that include the film festival as well as a fantastic Italian lunch: Italian Antipasto Salad, Homemade Cheese Ravioli or Penne Pasta with “Sunday” meat Gravy (meatless also available), Ron’s Meatballs, Sausage and Peppers, Garlic Bread and a Cannoli to finish!...
$10 Silent Film Night: Steamboat Bill Jr.
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesBuster Keaton plays the whimpy son of 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield, a salty tugboat captain, in this silent classic. The younger Bill spends most of his time trying to live up to his father's tough expectations. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with the daughter of the old man's fiercest rival--only to end...
$10 Silent Film Night: Exit Smiling
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesA maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a shot at the big time.
$10 Silent Film Night: Be My Wife
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesMax is determined to woo Mary, despite her Aunt Agatha's disapproval.
$10 Silent Film Night: The Saphead
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesThe simple-minded son of a rich financier must find his own way in the world.
$10 Silent Film Night: The Phantom Of The Opera
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
$10 Silent Film Comedy Night – Seven Chances (1925)
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesJimmy Shannon (Buster Keaton) is the junior partner in the brokerage firm of Meekin and Shannon, which is on the brink of financial ruin. A lawyer (whom they dodged, mistakenly believing he was trying to add to their woes) finally manages to inform Jimmy of the terms of his grandfather's will. He will inherit seven...
$10 Silent Film Comedy Night – Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesLow-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25, 000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland's premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 Silent Film Comedy Night – The Duchess of Buffalo (1926)
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United StatesThe storyline is loosely-based on Buffalo candy-maker August Merckens’ opera-singer daughter Baroness Platon Von Wrangel, who married the Russian leader in the fight for restoration of the Russian monarchy. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Silent Film Society Members Appreciation night! All members and their guests get in free, compliments of the Silent...
$10 Silent Film Comedy Night – Twinkletoes (1926)
Des Plaines Theatre 1476 Miner St, Des Plaines, IL, United States“Twinkletoes” Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured...