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A Valentine's Day Duo of Romantic Comedies

Rafter Romance  /  Double Harness

Rafter Romance
February 14, 2016 - 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Rafter Romance  (1933)


A saleswoman and a night watchman who've never met share an apartment, one by day and one by night, and detest each other, sight unseen.  Unwittingly meeting as strangers in the outside world, they develop a deepening attraction—while their at-home antipathy only intensifies, leading to comic complications on all sides in this valentine to romance on a Depression-era budget.

35mm, b/w, 70 min.  Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Director: William Seiter.  Based on the novel Rafter Romance by John Wells.  Screenwriter: H.W. Hanemann, Sam Mintz.  Cinematographer: David Abel.  Editor: James B. Morley.  With: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney, Robert Benchley, Laura Hope Crews.

Double Harness  (1933)


In this urbane romantic comedy, socialite Joan Colby callously pursues a San Francisco playboy as a husband, explaining to her disapproving family that marriage is a business prospect, and love, a mere complication to avoid.  But when her new marriage is threatened by her husband's straying eye, Joan sets out on a new project: to make him fall in love.

35mm, b/w, 74 min.  Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Director: John Cromwell.  Based on the play Double Harness by Edward Poor Montgomery.  Screenwriter: Jane Murfin.  Cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt.  Editor: George Nicholls Jr.  With: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne, Henry Stephenson, Lilian Bond.

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