The Children’s Hour
- Thu, Jun 25
- Fri, Jun 26
- Sat, Jun 27
- Sun, Jun 28
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: William Wyler Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 1961
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fay Bainter, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine
Did somebody say…”more Audrey, please”?
Witness the suffocating moral hypocrisies of mid-century America with The Children’s Hour, William Wyler’s haunting adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s scandalous stage play about the potentially devastating consequences of forbidden desire.
Reuniting screen legends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine as Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, two women running a private girls’ school whose lives are destroyed after a malicious student accuses them of being lovers, the film unfolds as a quietly radical portrait of queer longing under siege.
Shot in stark black-and-white with Wyler’s elegant precision, and anchored by MacLaine’s extraordinary portrayal of self-recognition and heartbreak, The Children’s Hour remains a landmark of coded queer Hollywood cinema.