National Velvet (1944)
July 11, Monday @ 7:30 p.m. National Velvet is the story of a 12 year old girl, Velvet (Liz Taylor) who saves a horse (Pie) from the glue factory and trains it for the Grand National steeplechase. When she discovers the professional jockey doesn't think Pie can win, Velvet disguises herself as a male jockey and rides the horse to victory. With Mickey Rooney as the trainer and Angela Lansbury as an older sister and Donald Crisp and Anne Revere as Velvet's parents. Directed by Clarence Brown. Revere won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Suddenly Last Summer (1959
Monday, July 18, Monday @ 7:30 p.m. Based on a play by Tennessee Williams, adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal, and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, Suddenly Last Summer deals with a Southern family trying to suppress a family scandal. Set in New Orleans in 1937, Mrs. Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), one of the richest women in town, offers to finance a new wing of the State Hospital - provided that Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine (Liz Taylor). Mrs. Venable is destroyed by the death of her son, the poet, Sebastian Venable and determined to deny the sordid circumstances of his death witnessed by Catherine. Mother and son used to travel with on vacations around the world - until last summer when suddenly Sebastian left with Catherine instead. As a result of her nervous breakdown, Catherine has been confined to the State asylum. Dr. Cukrowicz agrees to Mrs. Venable's proposition but first wants to find out the truth from Catherine despite her amnesia and medication. Thanks in large part to Elizabeth Taylor's radiant sensual beauty and superb acting, Suddenly Last Summer was a box office smash and established Liz Taylor as a star. Both she and Katharine Hepburn were nominated for Oscars for Best Leading Actress.