The Golden Age of Hollywood’s most famous couple star in their first and only film together.

“A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.” This February Women & Cocaine celebrates “America’s Screwball Queen” Carole Lombard, who’s life was sadly cut short when she was travelling the US selling war bonds and died in an airplane crash in 1942.

In No Man of Her Own (1932), Clark Gable plays Babe Stewart, a card shark in New York, luring socialites to his rigged games. When a vice detective finally catches wise, and his mistress threatens to turn him in, Babe escapes to small town America, where he meets Carole Lombard’s prim librarian Connie Randall. The pair are soon wed and move back to the city where Babe is up to his old tricks again unbeknownst to Connie, who soon discovers his “other life” and takes matters into her own hands.

We will be screening a 16mm print of the film from The Cinema Museum’s archive.

The film will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by a raffle!

“My father warned me about men & booze, but he never mentioned a word about women & cocaine” – Tallulah Bankhead.

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Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.

TICKETS & PRICING

Reserved tickets £9.45 available from Eventbrite. Tickets will also be available on the door on the night. Concessions available on the door with valid ID. Phone bookings for this event cannot be made via the Cinema Museum.