Q Night at the Movies features Anastasia 07/20

Posted on Jul 15, 2019

Q Night at the Movies presents Anastasia, the title role for which Ingrid Bergman won the 1956 Best Actress Academy Award. Also starring Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes, this historical drama follows a woman rumored to be the youngest daughter of the slain Tsar Nicholas II, but she must convince the Dowager Empress if she's to be declared legitimate. Before the movie, hear from TV and film writer Pamela Ribbon. After the feature, learn more about the two megastars of their time from Anastasia — Bergman and Brynner. It all starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on KLRU Q.

On Story at 7:30 p.m. Writer and author Pamela Ribon discusses the Disney films Moana and Ralph Breaks the Internet, as well as the television show Samantha Who?.

Feature Film Anastasia at 8 p.m. Could an amnesiac refugee named Anna Anderson (Ingrid Bergman) truly be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, purported sole survivor of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, and therefore the rightful heir to the Czar's fortune? Backed by a group of White Russian exiles led by General Bounine (Yul Brynner), she faces her possible grandmother, the imperious Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Helen Hayes), and the fortune-hunting Prince Paul (Ivan Desny).

Hollywood Idols Ingrid Bergman Remembered at 9:45 p.m. The life of Ingrid Bergman, from her childhood in Sweden to her death at age 67 in London.

Hollywood Idols Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King at 10:15 p.m. Actor Yul Brynner finds his perfect role in The King and I; film clips include The Ten Commandments, Anastasia, The Magnificent Seven, The Brothers Karamazov and Westworld.