Academy Gives Exclusive Look into Its Film Archive With "Hollywood Home Movies"

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Published on Friday, 20 November 2020 10:48
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The Academy Film Archive gives an exclusive look into the lives of classic Hollywood figures with its annual "Hollywood Home Movies: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive" event available for streaming online for the first time. 

The collection of home movies celebrates individuals who overcame barriers to work in the motion picture industry, with personal footage captured between the 1930s and the 1960s. 

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Actor Hayley Mills joins to discuss her 1966 comedy "The Trouble with Angels," while writer-director Gregory Nava and Bob Koster, son of director Henry Koster, share stories about their family films.  Lastly, Academy archivist Sean Savage provides tips on caring for your own home movies.  Original music for the program is composed and performed by Michael Mortilla.  For more information, visit Oscars.org.

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Footage includes:

Director Dorothy Arzner – the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America – boating with her friend Billie Burke

Gilbert Roland's 16mm home movies in early Kodachrome

A party at the home of Dolores Del Rio and Cedric Gibbons

A road trip with cinematographer James Wong Howe

Director Henry Koster leaving Europe as the Nazis come to power

Behind the scenes with Loretta Young, Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester

Nat King Cole at a movie premiere

Ida Lupino directing a female cast led by Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills in "The Trouble with Angels"

Plus, Constance Bennett, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, William Haines, Gypsy Rose Lee, Satchel Paige and more.

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WHO:
Randy Haberkamp (presenter), Academy's Senior Vice President, Preservation and Foundation Programs
Lynne Kirste (presenter), Academy Film Archive's Special Collections Curator
Bob Koster (special guest)
Hayley Mills (special guest), actor
Michael Mortilla, musician
Gregory Nava (special guest), writer-director

WHEN/WHERE:
Available now on Oscars.org.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a global community of more than 10,000 of the most accomplished artists, filmmakers and executives working in film. In addition to celebrating and recognizing excellence in filmmaking through the Oscars, the Academy supports a wide range of initiatives to promote the art and science of the movies, including public programming, educational outreach and the upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opening April 30, 2021.

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