SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our GOLDEN GIRLS: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE series! Thursday, June 9, 2022

SPECIAL NOTE: We’ll be screening five classic episodes from the groundbreaking American sitcom The Golden Girls tonight. Four will be chosen by us, one will be voted on by everyone present. In between each episode, audience will be invited to come up to offer stories, anecdotes, eulogies for Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia as we celebrate them in true Irish wake style. Dessert, champagne, wine, beer and fun tidbits, odds and ends will also make it into this night. Cosplay encouraged if the mood takes you.

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate.

7:30pm FIVE CLASSIC EPISODES FROM THE GOLDEN GIRLS (1985-1992, Showrunners Susan Harris, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, NBC; starring Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue Mclanahan, Betty White, entire event will run approximately 3 hours)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone without proof of vaccination will be required to wear a mask for their own safety. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation. We are working to make sure we make the theater going experience the most enjoyable and safest possible.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).

2)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. (Disclaimer under “REFUNDS” applies)

Tonight, we celebrate one of the greatest American sitcoms of all time (in this programmer’s opinion) The Golden Girls, which ran from 1985-1992 on NBC.

With the recent passing of Betty White, the last surviving Golden Girl, we got to thinking about just how remarkable this TV show was. A consistently well-written and hilarious farce that still always had a beating heart and social conscience.

The Golden Girls followed the daily comedy, lives & loves of sixty-something roommates: practical no-nonsense Dorothy (Bea Arthur), her wise-cracking loose cannon mother Sophia (Estelle Getty), hot to trot Southern belle Blanche (Rue Mclanahan), and good-hearted if seemingly absent-minded and naive Rose (Betty White). All widowed or divorced, the four women were routinely getting into trouble with boyfriends, ex-husbands or problems at work, all the while providing support and backing up each other.

It’s pretty amazing to think that a show about near retirees had such mass appeal. My 6-year-old sister and my 8-year-old self considered it appointment television at 9pm on Saturdays when staying with our newly divorced father. We would watch, laugh, and RELATE to Dorothy’s ongoing frustration with her schlubby ex-husband Stan (I’m still not sure how that worked).

So tonight, because I really do think this show is an American treasure, we’re going to send these Golden Girls off in style. We encourage any willing audience to prepare small anecdotes, tributes or stories from the heart to tell in between episodes.

We’ll toast Dorothy, Blanche, Sophia, and Rose one more time. And maybe even examine why we need a show about empathy like this to come back.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

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REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

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