The Secret Cinema presents 1935 musical political satire
THANKS A MILLION at historic Glen Foerd mansion
Wednesday, July 25,2018
8:00 pm (doors open 7:00 pm)
Admission: $10.00
Glen Foerd on the Delaware
Grant Avenue & Milnor Street, Philadelphia
(215) 632-5330
On Wednesday, July 25, the Secret Cinema will present films at perhaps the
most impressive venue in our long history — historic Glen Foerd on the
Delaware, a historic mansion and estate located in the Torresdale
neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. Glen Foerd is Philadelphia’s last
remaining Delaware River estate open to the public.
The screening will center on the 1935 feature film THANKS A MILLION, a
hybrid of political satire and musical comedy, about a big band singer
(Dick Powell) who is reluctantly recruited as an outsider candidate in the
Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. The film is aided by a witty script
from Nunnally Johnson, a top cast of ’30s co-stars and character actors
(Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Raymond Walburn, Patsy Kelly), and guest musical
numbers from the Yacht Club Boys and “King of Jazz” Paul Whiteman.