Programmed May 2024

Columbia’s Golden Era

While for many major Hollywood studios the 1950s marked the beginning of their decline, for Columbia Pictures it was a decade of ascendance. Spurred by the desire to differentiate their cinematic output from their television programming, the studio went bold with ambitious prestige productions like From Here to Eternity , On the Waterfront , and The Bridge on the River Kwai —all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. From genre gems like the crackerjack western 3:10 to Yuma to some of the era’s best stage-to-screen adaptations ( A Raisin in the Sun , Picnic ), Columbia Pictures carried the torch for the big-screen experience.

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