Rivertown Film is honored to be a Community Partner for LOST IN THE STARS, a portrait of Maxwell Anderson, the great 20th-century playwright and a resident of South Mountain Road from the 1920s until the 1950s. His plays, musicals, and movies include Key Largo, The Bad Seed, What Price Glory, Anne of a Thousand Days, and High Tor. Lost in the Stars (1948), for which this film is named, was written with another South Mountain Road resident, composer Kurt Weill. Included in this 1988 film are rare interviews with former Rockland residents Burgess Meredith and Helen Hayes. USA, 1988, 51 minutes, documentary, FREE
Meet the Filmmaker: Writer/Producer and Rockland County resident Richard Connolly.
Presented at Rockland Center for the Arts as part of the exhibition “American Modernism: 20th Century Influencers in Rockland,” running from January 12 to February 23. You can find out more about this screening here.
