Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: The Littlest Rebel @ Library of Congress
by Svetlana 
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| May 21, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
Wednesday, May 21 (7:00pm)
The Legacy of “Bojangles”
The Littlest Rebel (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1935). Dir David Butler. Wrt Edwin Burke, based on the play by Edward Peple. With Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson, Guinn Williams. (73 min, b&w, 35mm)
When Shirley Temple’s rebel officer father slinks back to his plantation to see his family, he is arrested. A Yankee soldier takes pity and arranges an escape. Everyone is captured and both soldiers are to be executed. Temple and “Bojangles” dance their way to Washington, DC to beg President Lincoln to intercede.
