“Dying for Deco: The Funerary Extravagances of the Art Deco Era” & Screening of DRACULA’S DAUGHTER
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
USA
What was it like to be laid to rest Art Deco style? “Dying for Deco: The Funerary Extravagances of the Art Deco Period,” an hour-long lecture digs six feet under to answer that question. The 1920s and ’30s saw an overwhelming change in all of the decorative arts including such funerary decorations as caskets, hearses, head stones, cenotaphs, and mausoleums.This illustrated presentation by former Art Deco Society of Los Angeles president (and LAHTF volunteer and founding Board member) Rory Cunningham will utilize images and stories of monuments honoring the departed from around the world. Historian Nathan Marsak will display part of his extensive collection of embalming fluid bottles and other funerary relics of the period. Followed by the 1936 Universal horror flick DRACULA’S DAUGHTER. Rory has been digging up the dirt in cemeteries for a number of years now and has many gorgeous images to share!
Doors open at 1:00 PM for a cake reception honoring our ancestors, who opened the Egyptian Theatre on this day in 1922.
DRACULA’S DAUGHTER1936, Universal, 71 min, USA, Dir: Lambert HillyerGothic 1930s terror abounds as Dracula’s tormented daughter, Countess Marya (Gloria Holden), longs to escape the bloodsucking curse visited on her by her father in this haunting sequel to the Bela Lugosi original. She “strikes with all her father’s cunning!”
This event is a co-presentation of the American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.
Art Deco Society members will be extended a special price of $7 for this event. Tickets at this price are only available at the box office. Online tickets will be full price.