Showings are on Wednesday afternoons at 2 PM, Market Street Matinees seeks to provide regularly scheduled free, enjoyable and thought provoking entertainment for individuals or groups. Free and open to the public on the third floor of the Welch Wing at the James V. Brown Library. Bring a lunch or pick up a snack in our vending machines. 

Having featured Hollywood’s classic bad boys, it’s only fair that Market Street Matinees gives women their due with a series of films that showcase movies greatest mean girls.

These four films garnered numerous Academy Awards® and nominations, and stand the test of time with memorable characters you love to hate.


Bette Davis is a tour de force, starring in three of the films in an amazing range of characters that secured her legend.

August 18 – JEZEBEL
August 25 – REBECCA
September 1 – WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
September 8 – ALL ABOUT EVE

August 18 – JEZEBEL
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
Directed by William Wyler
Black and White; Not Rated; 104 minutes; 1938

Bette Davis won a second Academy Award® for her outstanding performance in JEZEBEL, establishing her as Warner's leading lady. She plays Julie Marston, a tempestuous Southern belle whose insensitivity causes a break in her engagement to the inflexible Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda). When Dillard returns married, Julie's ruthless jealousy explodes.

 Watch the trailer for Jezebel







August 25 – REBECCA
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders,
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Not Rated; 130 minutes; 1940

Based on the famous novel by Daphne Du Maurier, this atmospheric drama is filled with the presence of a character that never appears - that of Rebecca, the beautiful, deceased wife of brooding, mysterious Max de Winter (Laurence Olivier). His second wife, a shy young former secretary (Joan Fontaine), finds her married life at the ancestral estate dominated by the continuing influence and pervasive presence of her predecessor - until she learns the truth about Rebecca’s life and death. Judith Anderson’s mean girl Mrs. Danvers is a special treat.

Watch the trailer for Rebecca

September 1

In what Time magazine called, "The year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller," two of Hollywood's greatest leading ladies team up to provide the screen with a macabre and eerie tale of a demented ex-child star living with her invalid sister whose tensions lead to murder.



 Watch the trailer for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?







September 8 – ALL ABOUT EVE
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Black and White; Not Rated; 138 minutes; 1950

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Ann Baxter) is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), and her other friends. Only the cynical drama critic (Oscar® winner George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards® and received the most nominations (14) in film history.

 Watch the trailer for All About Eve