The Count Basie Theatre Foundation was created to provide operating support to the Theatre, raise the capital needed to restore the facility and to create an endowment.
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Special Thanks to American Express for making the 2010 Film Series Possible
Through their generosity cinema treasures from the 9 decades that the Count Basie Theatre has been in existence were shown free of charge in the Winter of 2009. Those movies included:
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North by Northwest |
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1954 Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's stylish suspense thriller |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
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1935 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton |
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The Red Shoes |
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1954 Special pre-film introduction by Film Foundation. Moira Shearer |
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Hellraiser |
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1987 Pre-film talk by composer Christopher Young. A horror cult favorite |
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Dead Man Walking |
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1995 Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon |
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Annie Hall |
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1977 Woody Hall, Diane Keaton |
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