While the Vitaphone soundtrack disks for Frank Capras first talkie, THE DONOVAN AFFAIR, are still missing (the disk for the trailer will be played) thats not stopping NYCs Film Forum. A re-creation of the film with actors performing all the dialog (plus music and sound effects) will be presented there on Tuesday, October 15 at 8:00PM and Sunday, October 19 at 3:40PM The cast includes: ALLEN LEWIS RICKMAN: Film and TV credits include the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man, HBO’s I Don’t Know Jack, and a recurring role on Boardwalk Empire. JAMES KAREN: named by Vanity Fair as one of the most recognizable character actors working today, with such credits as The Pursuit of Happyness, The China Syndrome, Mulholland Dr., Wall Street, Poltergeist, and Return of the Living Dead – but perhaps best known to New Yorkers as “The Pathmark Man.” MICHAEL BADALUCCO: Emmy-Award winner for TV’s The Practice, Boardwalk Empire (recurring role), and a Coen Brothers regular in such films as The Man Who Wasn’t There and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (as Babyface Nelson) YELENA SHMULENSON: A Serious Man, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Shepherd STEVE STERNER: veteran actor and Film Forum’s longtime silent film accompanist SAM GUNCLER: The Gathering (Broadway), The Quarrel, Bug (Off-Broadway) RICK PASQUALONE: Melissa and Joey One Bad Choice, Deadly Devotion (TV) ASHLEY ADLER: L.A.-based This cast of season performers will be dubbing the missing voices of Jack Holt (star of Capra’s Submarine and Flight), Dorothy Revier (said to be the model for Columbia Pictures’ “Torch Lady”), Buster Collier, comedians Hank Mann, Fred Kelsey and Ethel Wales, Wheeler Oakman, and Agnes Ayres, most famous for being swept away in the desert by Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik. THE DONOVAN AFFAIR has been presented only five times in 22 years and has never been on television or DVD. THE DONOVAN AFFAIR is being presented as part of Film Forum’s 3-week Capra tribute, running October 10-23. Admission for the screenings on October 15 & 19 is $20.00, $13.00 for Film Forum members. filmforum.org/film/the-donovan-affair-capra-series-film
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