Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has added six legendary stars and seven cities to this year's Road to Hollywood, the nationwide tour of free screenings leading up to the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Angie Dickinson, Jane Powell, Mitzi Gaynor, Robert Wagner and Tippi Hedren are set to make appearances during the 10-city tour, which has added February events in Dallas and Washington, D.C.; March events in Boston and Chicago; and April events in San Francisco and Albuquerque.
Tickets are now available for the next Road to Hollywood events, a screening of the classic western Rio Bravo (1959) starring the legendary Angie Dickinson, who along with TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz will be on hand to introduce the film on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at the Historic Texas Theater in Dallas. Also, available are tickets to the screening of Fritz Lang's visionary sci-fi classic Metropolis (1927) set for Thursday, Feb. 21, at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Springs, Md. The film will be introduced by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and will feature an original score performed live by the highly innovative Alloy Orchestra. Free tickets can be obtained through the Road to Hollywood website at http://tcm.com/roadtohollywood.
In addition to Rio Bravo and Metropolis, upcoming screenings on the Road to Hollywood tour include Royal Wedding (1951), South Pacific (1958), The Pink Panther (1964) and Marnie (1964). Hosting duties for the screenings will be shared by Mankiewicz, TCM host Robert Osborne and film historian and author Leonard Maltin. A complete schedule of events is included below.
TCM's Road to Hollywood tour serves as a prelude to the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place April 25-28, 2013, in Hollywood. TCM kicked off the latest Road to Hollywood tour in October with a screening of Forbidden Planet (1956) at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Orlando. The film was introduced live from the International Space Station by Commander Suni Williams. Road to Hollywood continued in November with a screening of On the Waterfront (1954), featuring a live appearance by OscarÒ winner Eva Marie Saint. And in January, Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Michael York and Marisa Berenson joined TCM host Robert Osborne to introduce the 40th anniversary restoration of Cabaret (1972) at New York City's famous Ziegfeld Theatre, where the film first premiered.
