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Fundraiser brings Hollywood era back to Malabar Farm

May 31, 2012
Tribune Chronicle , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com

Malabar Farm State Park celebrates its cinematic history this weekend with ''Hollywood Returns to Malabar Farm.''

Steven Bogart, the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and Tyrone Power Jr., son of Tyrone Power, will be special guests for a weekend of activities.

Bogart and Bacall were married on May 21, 1945, at Malabar Farm, which was the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and screenwriter Louis Bromfield, who was best man at the wedding. Bromfield hosted many of his celebrity friends at his home in Lucas, Ohio, including Power, Clark Gable, James Cagney, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Alice Fay.

Bromfield, who wrote the screenplays for Power's ''The Rain Came'' and the Walter Pigeon/Green Garson film ''Mrs. Parkington,'' died in 1956, and the property became a state park, located off of Interstate 71 near Mansfield.

Steven Bogart and Power Jr. will take part in tours of the historic home at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The house include Bromfield's memorabilia as well as original paintings by Grandma Moses and hand-painted Disney animation cels. The tour also includes sites used for filming the movie ''The Shawshank Redemption.'' Tour tickets are $10.

Luncheon shows on Friday and Saturday are sold out, but Bogart and Power Jr. will look back at their famous parents lives in dinner shows at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday that will include reflections on growing up in Hollywood, an audience Q&A, and film clips, photos and newsreel footage of the Bogart and Bacall wedding at Malabar Farm. Show only tickets on Friday are $35 and dinner/show tickets on Saturday are $50.

The 1948 Bogart/Bacall film ''Key Largo'' will be shown at 8:15 p.m. Friday and Power's ''The Mark of Zorro'' will be shown at 9 a.m. Sunday. The film screenings are free and open to the public.

Proceeds from the weekend will benefit the preservation and restoration of Bromfield's ''Big House'' at Malabar Farm. Tickets are available at www.malabarfarm.org. For more information, call 419-892-2784.

 
 

 

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