FOGCUTTER FILM SERIES 13

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Stormy Weather (1943) with Surprise Musical Guest!

Fogcutter Film Series hosted by Robert Mailer Anderson

6:00 PM: “Happy Hour Gramophone Concert” by DJ GrampaPhone spinning 78 shellacs on his 1906 gramophone, including rare cuts from Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, and THREE versions of Stormy Weather with vocals– with FREE Fogcutter Calwise Gimlets while supplies last!

7:00 PM: Surprise Musical Guest and short feature of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo” clip from Sun Valley Serenade (1941) with Glenn Miller, Tex Beneke, and the all-time greatest tap dance duo The Nicholas Brothers

7:30 PM: Stormy Weather (1943) Dance legend Bill "Bojangles"’ Robinson has a fictional biographic reminiscence about his time in World War I, meeting his love Selina Rogers (the stunning Lena Horne, Grammy/Tony/Kennedy Honor award singer/political activist) at a soldiers' ball and promising to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly, since Selina is unwilling to "settle down." Will she ever change her mind? It's all an excuse to highlight classic jazz songs and musical performances and by Lena and Mr. Bojangles, Fats Waller, Ada Brown, Cab Calloway, and the show-stopping, tap dancing Nicholas Brothers in a performance that Fred Astaire called “the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen."

ROBERT MAILER ANDERSON: Anderson is a native San Franciscan, 9th generation Californian, writer, producer, filmmaker (Windows on The World, Pig Hunt) activist, author of the bestselling novel Boonville, and nominated for 3 Grammys as a music producer. His most recent work is the graphic novel My Fairy Godfather (Fantagraphics) - dedicated to The Castro Theater. He is also known as "DJ GrampaPhone” - spinning 78 records on his 120 year-old gramophone.