2009 Hollywood's Brightest Stars

A Summer series of classic Hollywood movies shown at the historic Kentucky Theatre located in Downtown Lexington on Main Street. 

Show Times:
Movies are shown every Wednesday, May 27 through September 2 at 1:30pm & 7:15pm.

Tickets:
All seats are $4. Tickets can be purchased in advance beginning the Sunday before each film plays, on Monday and Tuesday evenings or after 12 Noon on the Wednesday of each show.

Parking is available in the Annex Garage, located on East Main Street, just West of MLK Blvd. 

For more information, including address and directions, contact the Kentucky Theatre at 859-231-7924 or visit www.kentuckytheatre.com.

2009 Show Schedule

May 27
The Apartment (1960)
Directed by Billy Wilder; Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine & Fred MacMurray.  A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.  Winner of numerous awards, including 5 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and 1 Grammy.

June 3:
The Birds (1963)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor & Jessica Tandy.  A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

June 10
Duck Soup (1933) and Horse Feathers (1932)
A Marx Brothers Double Feature! Directed by Leo McCarey and Norman Z. McLeod, respectively.  Duck Soup:  Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.  Horse Feathers: Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

June 17:
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Directed by Robert Wise; Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe.  Featuring Kentucky's favorite actress Patricia Neal and a legendary score by Bernard Herrmann in this brand new 35mm print.  Alien Klaatu with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Earth just after World War II, intending to relay an important message to representatives of all the nations of Earth. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach.

June 24:
The Hustler (1961)
Directed by Robert Rossen; Starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, and George C. Scott in this new 35mm print.  After losing a high-stakes pool match with the legendary "Minnesota Fats", "Fast" Eddie Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game, threatened with losing everything in the process.

July 1:
American Graffiti (1973)
Directed by George Lucas; Starring Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat.  Join two teenage boys as they spend their last night before they are scheduled to leave for college. Rediscover drag racing, Inspiration Point and drive-ins all over again in this nostalgic looks at the 60's.

July 8:
The Godfather (1972) (R)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton.  Digitally re-mastered new 35mm print.  Michael Corleone, son of the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family, doesn't want to inherit control of family and just wants to live a normal life.  But an assassination attempt on his father by a drug dealer leads Michael to begin a violent mob war which tears the Corleone family apart.

July 15:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner; Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall. New 35mm print.  An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

July 22
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (PG)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick; Starring Peter Sellers x 3, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden.  Perhaps the bleakest, funniest black comedy ever committed to film in which an insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

July 29
The King and I (1956)
Directed by Walter Lang; Starring Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno.  After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam.  Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical has long been unavailable as the distributor had no prints. The Kentucky Theatre is one of the first theatres to show this brand new 35mm print. "Shall we dance?"  

August 5:
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc; Starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer.  After being approached by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me," young playwriter Richard Collier seeks her out, and learns that she is a now-deceased, famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Through self hypnosis, he travels back in time where he finds her and they fall in love. 

August 12:
Once Upon A Time in the West (1968) (PG-13)
Directed by Sergio Leone; Starring Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards.  Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. 

August 19:
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Directed by John M. Stahl; Starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.  Writer Richard Harland unhesitatingly marries lovely Ellen Berent. As he soon finds his life blighted with tragedies, he comes to suspect these events are connected with his wife's unreasoning jealousy. Ellen's family turns away from her, and yet another shock awaits them all as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

August 26:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Directed by David Lean; Starring Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif.  An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazes his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then seeks anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. 

September 2:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Arthur, King of the Britons, embarks on a low-budget search for knights to sit with him at Camelot and for the Holy Grail, all on invisible horses! He finds several knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot.

A part of DLC's
Summer In the City

Downtown Lexington Corporation’s mission is to promote Downtown as a unique 
and vibrant place in Lexington for business, residential life and entertainment.