Screwball Sundays: Midnight

Join us for a rare screening of the screwball comedy cinema classic Midnight 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.

MAY 3 | Midnight (1939)

Directed by Mitchell Leisen

Starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche

A penniless American showgirl bluffs her way into Parisian high society, setting off a cascade of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and verbal gymnastics. Colbert is luminous and sly, navigating aristocrats and opportunists alike with wit and nerve. Midnight is screwball elegance at its most deliciously deceptive.

Film Intro: Nate Wyckoff

Nate Wyckoff owns and operates the local film distribution company Cult and Classic Films.com and the “Cult and Classic Films Podcast.” Nate regularly produces shows and film screenings at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, including the “Cult Nites” series and the Palm Springs Comedy Class.com stand-up comedy shows featuring nationally renowned comics as well as local stars from his 8-Week Comedy Class series at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.