As of this writing, I am one day away from presenting my last lecture in the RKO 1935 series, at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca, in lower Manhattan. In the past four weeks, we covered such films as Top Hat, The Informer, Last Days of Pompeii, and SHE. Now, on December 18th, we will discuss and screen one of George Stevens’ earliest films at RKO, his film version of Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray. This was the mid-point of Hepburn’s RKO period. She had made her first film at the studio, with A Bill of Divorcement, in 1932, in which she was directed by George Cukor (the first of ten films Hepburn and Cukor would collaborate on). It’s interesting to note that Hepburn and RKO Executive producer Pandro S. Berman, flipped a coin to see who would direct the actress in the film. Either William Wyler or George Stevens. Stevens won the toss (after a second try). This film marks the end of the RKO 1935 series. But, come 2013, I will be presenting two series, during the Winter/Spring semester: The Golden Age of Television Drama, which is an expanded version of the course I taught at Queens College in the Fall. This course will feature such class television plays as Marty, Patterns, What Makes Sammy Run, Jerry Lewis in The Jazz Singer, plus the T.V. versions of Days of Wine And Roses, and Bang The Drum Slowly, both of which would become feature films years later. As Charlton Heston once said, live television drama gave work and helped develop the careers to may young actors, writers, and directors. This course will run for eight weeks, and will begin January 29th. Beginning April 9th, I will present a four week series, devoted to Bette Davis at Warner Brothers. Featured in this series devoted to her golden period at Warners, will be Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), and Now Voyager (1942). This series will ask the question, “Why ask for the Moon, we have the stars?”. More courses are now in development for Summer, 2013, at the 92nd Streett Y Tribeca. Stay tuned.