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SUMMARY:Chuck Ward Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Chuck Ward Memorial Lecture “Irish Catholi
 cs in the Golden Age of Hollywood” will take place at the Irish Fest
  Center on Friday evening November 8th.  Before Johnny Depp and Public
  Enemies there was The Public Enemy. James Cagney’s 1931 portrayal o
 f the urban Irish-American gangster Tommy Powers set the standard for 
 the Hollywood gangster, and helped launch the golden age of Irish-Amer
 ican cinema. Cagney’s Irish gangsters shared the screen with a broad
  range of Irish characters, such as boxers, working women, priests, an
 d entertainers. Films such as Angels with Dirty Faces, Gentleman Jim, 
 Kittle Foyle, Going my Way, and Yankee Doodle Dandy presented these ch
 aracters as inhabitants of an urban village, at once traditional and m
 odern and both Irish and American.  At a time when the Depression caus
 ed many to rethink the American dream, these films offered an alternat
 ive social vision that prized community and solidarity over individual
  advancement, and local loyalty rather than the rootless freedom of th
 e frontier. Among the most popular movies in America, these Irish urba
 n village films attracted the great stars of the era including Milwauk
 ee natives Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien, along with Bing Crosby, Clar
 k Gable, Errol Flynn, Wallace Beery, Bob Hope, Ginger Rogers, Joan Cra
 wford, Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore, and Olivia de Havilland.  Using s
 ome fascinating film clips, Christopher Shannon will present the stars
  and their movies as the national treasures that they are. He will tal
 k about such classic films as Manhattan Melodrama, San Francisco, The 
 Irish in Us, Amarily of Clothesline Abby, Irene, Boys Town, The Fighti
 ng 69th, The Bells of St. Mary's, My Wild Irish Rose, The Seven Little
  Foys, Bowery to Broadway, Doffy's Tavern, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, O
 n the Waterfront and The Last Hurrah.  Christopher Shannon has a Docto
 rate from Yale University and teaches American and Catholic Church his
 tory at Christendom College Virginia. His most recent book Bowery to B
 roadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema has been descr
 ibed as “the standard work on Irish American representation in the c
 lassic Hollywood period” by Professor Ruth Barton of Trinity College
  Dublin. Christopher is also an accomplished exponent of traditional I
 rish music on the button accordion.  This presentation will take place
  at 7 PM following a reception at 6:30 PM. The Irish Fest Office is si
 tuated at 1532 Wauwatosa Ave.  The annual Chuck Ward Memorial Lecture 
 is co-sponsored by Milwaukee Irish Fest and UW-M Center for Celtic Stu
 dies.\n\nFor more information visit https://thewildgeese.irish/events/
 chuck-ward-memorial-lecture
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CATEGORIES:lecture
LOCATION:Irish Fest Center, Milwaukee, WI
WEBSITE:http://irishfest.com/Year-Round-Events/Milwaukee-Irish-Fest-Ev
 ents.htm
URL:http://irishfest.com/Year-Round-Events/Milwaukee-Irish-Fest-Events
 .htm
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