Join local author and film historian Harry Medved for a lecture, screening and walking tour featuring Santa Monica locations that starred in the movies. Co-author of the recently published “Hollywood Escapes: The Moviegoers Guide to Exploring Southern California’s Great Outdoors,” Medved will explore the history of filming in Santa Monica with clips from movies such as Rebel Without A Cause, It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Get Shorty, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, and Oceans Eleven, and the 1973 Best Picture Oscar Winner, The Sting. The program is free and open to the public. Beginning with the Vitagraph Studios next to the Rapp Saloon in 1911 up to the present, Santa Monica’s famed natural and architectural environment has hosted Hollywood film-makers using a wide range of locations. Medved’s lecture/screening is followed by a walking tour of historic Palisades Park, exploring cinematic locations. The program is free; however, books will be available for sale, benefiting the Santa Monica Conservancy. K-MOZART 105.1 FM personality and Santa Monica local Rich Capparela will introduce the event, which takes place on Sunday February 11th at The Fairmont Miramar Hotel, 101 Wilshire Blvd. (at Ocean Ave.), beginning at the hotel’s Malibu Bungalow at 2 PM. The tour will conclude at the hotel at 5 PM. Hotel valet parking is available but is not validated. Alternatively, use street parking or nearby city parking structures. Please wear comfortable walking shoes, as the walking tour is a 1.5 miles round-trip stroll. The Santa Monica Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about preserving Santa Monica’s cultural heritage. For more information, check their website at www.smconservancy.org, or call (310) 496-3146.
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