Grant Park Movie Fest 2009 Opens Tuesday
Monday July 13, 2009
The uber-popular summer delight that is the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival opens tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14 with a screening of Sunset Boulevard.
About.com's Guide to Classic Movies Laurie Boder says Sunset Boulevard is "one of the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies, the cynical kind that says: 'Okay, maybe Hollywood is corrupt, shallow, vain and more than a little insane – but I bet you can’t stop watching.'”
The movie kicks off in Grant Park at 8:58 p.m. Find the rest of the summer Grant Park Movie schedule, and review of a list of all the movies shown in Grant Park to date.
Related: Grant Park Music Schedule
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Image of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard courtesy of the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival.
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The City of Chicago’s Outdoor Film Festival (COFF), in partnership with the Goodman Theatre, invites you to break a Guinness Book World Record. Be part of the largest group of people wearing a Groucho nose and glasses at Tuesday’s (7-21-09) presentation of the American classic movie Duck Soup in Grant Park. The record to break “of the most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses” is 4,077. The record was set during a fundraiser in Springfield, Missouri, on July 9, 2007. Be ready to don the Groucho Marx look for 10 consecutive minutes at 8:00pm This event, including the Groucho nose and glasses, is FREE and open to the public.
My family and I went on tuesday night to particioate in the record breaking event, we keep checking for an update to see if the record was broken and we have yet to find out any info. We would love to know what the final # was.