Screwball Sundays: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Join us for a rare screening of the screwball comedy cinema classic Mr. and Mrs. Smith at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.

SCREWBALL SUNDAYS

April 5 - June 21

2PM Pre-Show | 3PM Film

Screwball comedies don’t just flirt with disorder—they weaponize it. Rapid-fire dialogue, mismatched lovers, social norms turned upside down, and women who refuse to behave “properly.” Screwball Sundays celebrates the genre at its most playful and subversive, pairing razor-sharp wit with big-hearted romance and impeccable comic timing.

Join us Sunday afternoons for six deliriously entertaining classics—each a reminder that love is often loud, illogical, and very funny. Each film screens on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre.

APR 5 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Starring Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery

Film Intro: Richard L. Edwards

Before suspense took over his reputation, Hitchcock delivered this sparkling marital comedy about a blissfully happy couple who discover—mid-marriage—that their wedding may not be legally valid. What follows is a battle of pride, passion, and bedroom politics, driven by Lombard’s fearless comic brilliance and Hitchcock’s precise sense of timing. A screwball with bite, charm, and a surprisingly modern view of marriage.

RICHARD L. EDWARDS is Executive Director of XCITE at UC Riverside and holds a PhD in Film Studies from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He taught the acclaimed TCM online course 50 Years of Hitchcock, co-hosts the popular podcast Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir, and co-authored The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Political Criticism. A noted Hitchcock and noir scholar, Edwards annually hosts NoirCon at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, featuring classic noir screenings at the Camelot Theatre as well as the monthly HITCHCOCK RETROSPECTIVE.