Showings are on Saturday and 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. 

February is the month Cupid draws his bow, and Market Street Matinees can’t resist getting in on the fun with a run of classic romantic comedies guaranteed to hit the mark. Featuring the marvelous pairings of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, and Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, these films laughingly ask how romance can go so wrong - and so right.

January 30 and February 3 – PILLOW TALK
Rock Hudson, Doris Day
Universal Pictures; Directed by Michael Gordon
Not Rated; 105 minutes; 1959

In this rollicking romantic comedy, a career girl (Doris Day) and a happy bachelor (Rock Hudson) share a party line telephone, but no other interests. In the process of disliking each other, because of party line interruptions, they fall in love.

 Watch trailer for Pillow Talk

February 6 and 10 – IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Columbia Pictures; Directed by Frank Capra
Black and White; Not Rated; 105 minutes; 1934

An unhappy heiress (Claudette Colbert) falls for a news reporter (Clark Gable) she meets on a bus trip across America. Equal sense of screwball humor and depression America are skillfully intertwined in the film’s love story. The film dispensed with traditional studio sets to show the real America of buses, highways, and motels. One of the most popular comedies of the ‘30s and winner of five major Academy Awards®.

Watch the trailer for It Happend One Night

February 13 and 17 – MY FAVORITE WIFE
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant,  Randolph Scott
RKO Pictures; Directed by Garson Kanin
Not Rated; 88 minutes; 1940

Cary Grant, the screen's ideal combination of romantic hunk and comedy buffoon, plays flabbergasted Nick. Radiant Irene Dunne, Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade co-star, plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. And Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mix-up as Nick goes from having one wife to two to none to one. The right one. What romantic comedy has joined together let no one put asunder.


 Watch the the trailer for My Favorite Wife




February 20 and 24 – DOWN WITH LOVE
Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, David Hyde Pierce
20th Century Fox; Directed by Peyton Reed
PG-13; 101 minutes; 2003

In homage to the Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies of the fifties, Renee Zellweger (Chicago) and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge) are the toast of the town in this stylish romantic comedy. Down With Love is a teasing, tantalizing battle of the sexes. When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor), these sparring, would-be lovers generate enough sparks to fly you to the moon and back. In other words, the ultimate catch has just met his match!

 Watch the trailer for Down with Love