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I love Los Angeles. It’s been home my entire life and as a fan and researcher of classic Hollywood, there probably isn’t a better place to be. However, there is one great deficiency in my years of living in the City of Angels – I have never seen an Ann Dvorak film at a theater in L.A. The closest I came was around 10 years ago when the American Cinematheque<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0who programs at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, scheduled a screening of Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars <\/strong><\/a>from 1932\u00c2\u00a0with Ann, James Cagney, and Joan Blondell. Unfortunately, the theater received a print of the\u00c2\u00a01938\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>The Crows Roars<\/strong> with Robert Taylor which we did not find out about until the film rolled and the MGM lion mightily roared, to my extreme disappointment.<\/p>\n Now, this horrible wrong is going to be righted in the best possible way with a screening of\u00c2\u00a0Heat Lightning<\/strong><\/a>, one of my favorite Ann Dvorak films. This fabulous flick is part of a\u00c2\u00a0quadruple\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>“proto-noir” marathon which is closing out the annual Noir City festival presented by the American Cinematheque in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation at the Egyptian. Also on the bill are\u00c2\u00a0The Ninth Guest, Let Us Live, and Safe in Hell<\/strong>, three films I have never seen. All in 35mm!<\/p>\n What could be better than spending an evening watching a favorite Ann Dvorak film in a historic theater full of people? Why, introducing that film of course! That’s right, I’ll be joining Eddie Mueller and Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir Foundation in giving an introduction of my beloved\u00c2\u00a0Heat Lightning<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>which makes me giddy beyond belief.<\/p>\n