Yesterday (10/17/2022) Jenny and I drove to the AFI Silver Theatre to see A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951), part of the Noir film festival, because it was going to be introduced by TCM’s Eddie Muller and the legendary George Stevens Jr. who started the AFI and the Kennedy Center Awards! Since Saturday was Eddie’s birthday, I decided to give him a unique gift. In 2011, I introduced THE KILLERS (1946) at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater and to make the event more special, I made a replica copy of the infamous green scarf with golden harps on it that Ava Gardner’s character gives to Burt Lancaster in the film. It’s the scarf that insurance detective Edmund O’Brien uses to connect the dots and track down “the killers.” When we met Eddie in the lobby he could not have been more charming and surprised when we gave him the scarf. He recognized it immediately and said “Wow!” and said if he only would have had it a couple of months earlier, he could have photographed it to use in his next book on film-noir cocktails featuring the “Kitty Collins” based on Ava’s character in THE KILLERS. A PLACE IN THE SUN was great on the big screen with all of those luscious close-ups of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff. But the icing on the cake was Eddie’s intro and George Stevens sharing stories of his father (the director of the film) directing the “pool room” scene and Elizabeth Taylor taking Junior to lunch! When Stevens told how he created the American Film Institute to find, preserve and share film history it choked Eddie Muller up to the point he could hardly speak. They were passing the torch before our eyes.
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A Place in the Sun (1951) introduced by Eddie Mueller & George Stevens Jr. 10/17/2022 Noir Festival.
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