A good month for classic films, highlighted by 24 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock on June 26 and 27.
June 1: two musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli, Band Wagon (1953) and Brigadoon (1954)
June 5: Joseph Lewis's masterly Gun Crazy (1950) and two comedies directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, I Was a Male War Bride (1949) and Monkey Business (1954)
June 6: Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933) and Mark Sandrich's Shall We Dance (1937), one of the best Rogers/Astaire musicals.
June 7: Vincente Minnelli's great melodrama Some Came Running (1958) and Hawks's great Western Rio Bravo (1959)
June 8: Nicholas Ray's Party Girl (1958) and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
June 11: Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) starring Marlene Dietrich
June 14: Victor Sjostrom The Scarlet Letter (1927) starring Lillian Gish
June 16: King Vidor's vivid Northwest Passage (1940)
June 17: Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937)
June 19: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
June 20: Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
June 26-27: Twenty-four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, including The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Vertigo (1958)
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