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July 23 at the Woman's Club of Hollywood
Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik (1926) Hosted by Kathryn Leigh Scott Book signing at 7:00 p.m. Show starts at 8:00 p.m. 
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On Saturday, July 23, Kathryn Leigh Scott will host a fundraiser for Retroformat Silent Films and the Woman's Club of Hollywood, including a screening of Rudolph Valentino's final film, The Son of the Sheik (1926) along with a rare, privately made Valentino short, The Sheik’s Physique (1925). Ms. Scott and Michael Hawks will autograph copies of their books Lobby Cards: The Classic Films, with a Foreword by Joan Bennett (featuring a Son of the Sheik lobby card), and Lobby Cards: The Classic Comedies, with a Foreword by Bob Hope. Both books feature lobby cards from the Michael Hawks Collection.
The show will include a live, 1920s cabaret-style opening directed by Retroformat Silent Films Musical Director Cliff Retallick. Both films will feature live piano accompaniment by Mr. Retallick.
The benefit will take place at the historic Woman’s Club of Hollywood on Saturday, July 23. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Kathryn Leigh Scott and Michael Hawks will sign books at 7:00 p.m. The show will start at 8:00 p.m. The Son of the Sheik, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky, was Valentino's final film and was released nearly two weeks after his death from peritonitis at the age of 31. In 2003, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Print of The Son of the Sheik courtesy of the USC HMH Moving Image Archive. Actress and author Kathryn Leigh Scott began her acting career playing Maggie Evans and Josette DuPres on the legendary soap opera, Dark Shadows. Her more recent roles have included Mamie Eisenhower in the The Eleventh Green (2020), with Campbell Scott; Wanda in Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York (2020) and an appearance in Three Christs (2020) with Richard Gere and Juliana Margulies. She has authored four novels, September Girl, Jinxed, Down and Out in Beverly Heels and Dark Passages; a trilogy of books on care giving: Now With You, Now Without; The Happy Hours and A Welcome Respite and a memoir, Last Dance at the Savoy. Her book The Bunny Years is a history of Playboy Clubs told through the women who worked as Bunnies. She is the founder of Pomegranate Press, Ltd., publisher of more than 50 books about the entertainment industry, including guidebooks, biographies, textbooks and coffee table art books. |
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