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Cary’s Colourful Return
It’s the biennial Cary Comes Home festival’s resting year, but they just couldn’t resist organising a few events, the first of which forms part of the Warner Brothers studio’s centenary celebrations. That’s an expanded screening of the heavily fictionalised 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day, with our Cary in the lead role. Cary’s first full-colour film looks lovely in Technicolor and all the songs are present and correct, but there’s no mention whatsoever of Porter’s homosexuality, in keeping with the film industry’s production code of the era.
The screening takes place at St. Mary Redcliffe Church on Friday 21 October, with wraparound attractions including local choirs performing Cole Porter hits and themed cocktails. Tickets are available now from the festival’s website.
The following month the festival has a free online discussion about the making of the film, entitled You’re the Tops. This takes place on Tuesday 17 November. That’s followed by a screening of the 1957 romance An Affair to Remember, which pairs Cary with another former Bristol resident, Deborah Kerr. This one’s on screen at Clevedon’s Curzon cinema on Saturday 25 November.
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