Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, will present a double feature starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, as part of its summer-long salute to female stars of the silent screen.
“The Single Standard” (1929), starring Greta Garbo, and “Ella Cinders” (1926), starring Colleen Moore, will be screened with live music.
In “The Single Standard,” Garbo plays a socialite determined to treat men the way they treat women. Weary of the “good old boy” mentality which dictates that men can flit from girl to girl while women are expected to remain faithful, San Francisco socialite Arden Stuart (Garbo) decides to adopt the “single standard” and play the field herself.
In the comedy “Ella Cinders,” Moore reinvents the Cinderella fairy tale with a comedic twist. Moore plays a movie-struck small-town girl who wins a talent contest purportedly sponsored by a film studio. First prize is a trip to Hollywood and a screen test, but when Ella arrives in Tinseltown, she discovers that the contest was a fraud. Momentarily disheartened, Ella vows to get into pictures by any means possible.
Admission is free, but a donation of $10 per person is suggested to help defray expenses.
Additional screenings are as follows:
— Sunday, July 24, at 2 p.m.: Norma Talmadge in “Within the Law.” Silent screen dramatic star Norma Talmadge plays a shopgirl wrongly imprisoned, and bent on revenge against the man who wronged her in this 1923 release. Filmed on location in New York City.
— Sunday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m.: Marion Davies in “Beverly of Graustark.” Gender-bending 1926 comedy in which Davies stars as an American cousin of a European prince, and with whom she must switch places to keep the kingdom from unraveling.
— Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m.: Double feature with Gloria Swanson and Mae Marsh. Swanson stars in “Fine Manners” (1926), a comedy about a chorus girl trying to keep up with her high society beau. In “Daddies” (1924), Mae Marsh plays an unlikely orphan adopted by the head of the local Bachelor’s Club.
For information, visit wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call 603- 654-3456. For more about the music, visit jeffrapsis.com.