INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian and preservationist Eric Grayson will screen the 1933 film, International House, with a cast of stars, including W.C. Fields, Bela Lugosi, Stu Erwin, Rose Mary, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Cab Calloway, and Rudy Vallee at the Garfield Park Arts Center on Sat., Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.
In the film, a Chinese inventor creates a new television that various countries want to buy for their exclusive use. He invites a host of zany representatives to the International House in Wu Hu, China. Essentially a bunch of brief bits by popular stars, according to Grayson, this movie still upset the enforcers of Hollywood’s Production Code so much that they cracked down on future films.
A highlight of International House is Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing one of his most famous hits, Reefer Man.
Admission is $5 and concessions are $1. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-327-7135.
