Wednesday Movie Matinees: Screwball Comedies

Wednesday Movie Matinees: Screwball Comedies

Join us for a movie matinee series. January will be featuring classic screwball comedies. Each movie screening will begin at 2:30pm. Bring your own popcorn.

Wednesday January 7: The Philadelphia Story (1940) 112 minutes.

  • Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart star in the classic, multiple Academy Award-winning romantic comedy--The Philadelphia Story. On the eve of Tracy Samantha Lord's (Hepburn) wedding, her blue-blood ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Grant), returns. C.K. discovered that a national tabloid plans to do an expose on Tracy's philandering father and has agreed to smuggle a reporter (James Stewart) into her wedding if the magazine kills the story on the elder Lord. But C.K. never expects that the woman he still loves will suddenly fall for the undercover reporter. Now, before the evening is over, Tracy will be forced to take an unflinching look at herself and to realize which of these three men she truly loves. Based on a play by Philip Barry.
  • Cast includes Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, Roland Young
  • Trailer

Wednesday January 14: His Girl Friday (1940) 92 minutes.

  • Rewrite of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "The Front Page" is about a newspaper editor who goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his best reporter (who is also his ex-wife) from remarrying in a desperate attempt to win her back.
  • Cast includes Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy
  • Trailer

Wednesday January 21: Trouble in Paradise (1932) 83 minutes.

  • Two sophisticated jewel thieves find themselves caught up in an unexpected love triangle when they set out to separate a Parisian widow from her fortune in gems.
  • Cast includes Miriam Hopkins, Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles
  • Trailer

Wednesday January 28: My Man Godfrey (1936) 94 minutes.

  • A madcap socialite heiress hires an erudite homeless man to be her butler, much to the dismay of her father, but it turns out that the man isn't a penniless bum at all, he's a member of a wealthy Boston family.
  • Cast includes William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick.
  • Trailer 
Date:
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Caledonia Library Community Room
Campus:
Caledonia Library
Audience:
  Adult     Senior  
Categories:
  Movie