Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
Women on Top: Legacies of Women in Global Cinema
Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck bring the heat as a toy manufacturer, feeling neglected by his wife and family, has a fling with an old flame. Q&A with author and scholar Marsha Gordon to follow.
Based on the novel There's Always Tomorrow by Ursula Parrott, Fred MacMurray is a toy manufacturer feeling ignored and abandoned by his wife. Enter Barbara Stanwyck, an old flame and former employee with whom MacMurray begins a heated love affair. Directed by the iconic Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow reunites the Double Indemnity co-stars for another look into the troubled waters of marriage and monogamy. [84 min; drama; English]
A Q&A with scholar and author Marsha Gordon and filmmaker Riley Dismore will follow the screening.
Marsha Gordon is Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, a recent Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and an NEH Public Scholar. She is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, and co-director of several short documentaries.
Riley Dismore (IU alum) is a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles and Indianapolis. Her film Rolling (2018) was an official selection of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and she won the Hoosier Film Festival Best Writer Award in for her second film Rebel Girls (2019). Dismore's work explores gender equality, sexuality and violence through independent film, contemporary art, and activism.
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