Film/Video ILLUMINATING THE SILVER SCREEN: DOLORES DEL RIO EVANGELINE DIRECTED BY EDWIN CAREWE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2002, 8 PM $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM

Love and war--classic ingredients of the romantic epic--provide the conflict for this story of the strong-willed Nova Scotian Evangeline, who refuses the proposal of one respectable man because she loves another. When war erupts, the people of her village are displaced; her search for her lost love takes her to Louisiana and then to a Philadelphia almshouse. An impassioned adaptation of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline showcases del Rio sensationally suffering in one of her finest roles. 1929, U.S., B/W with color tinting, 35mm, 87 minutes.

SPECIAL THANKS TO BILL ROBENS AND R. P. MAY (WARNER BROS.), ROB STONE (UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE), BRIAN CLAUSSEN (SWANK) AND BRYAN COFFEY (MOMA CIRCULATING FILM DEPARTMENT) FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND FOR PROVIDING THE PRINTS.