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Andrew’s Video Vault at the Rotunda | 2013 Series

Applause [Applaus] (2009, 85 min)
Director Martin Pieter Zandvliet’s harrowing drama about an acclaimed but alcoholic actress played by Paprika Steen seeking to regain custody of her children while performing in a production of Edward Albee’s play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Applause (1973, 100 min)
Videotaped in London for TV, Lauren Bacall stars in Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Charles Strouse’s musicalization of the cult movie All About Eve wherein an ingénue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging actress. Co-staring Larry Hagman and Penny Fuller.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Cinema Studies Program and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania, and ARMcinema25. Special thanks: Andrew Repasky McElhinney, Curator of the Film Series.