The Gay Desperado
Starring: Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Nino Martini
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Writer: Wallace Smith
Producer: Jesse Louis Lasky
The Gay Desperado is a 1936 American musical-comedy film starring Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, and Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Mary Pickford and Jesse Lasky and originally released by United Artists. The film is a spoof of the Hollywood gangster genre. The Gay Desperado earned the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Director of 1936 for Mamoulian.
Previous Showings
3 Runs • 2 Festivals
505 tickets sold
All runs on record (3):
- February 22, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ High, Wide and Handsome
- May 6 - 7, 2015 · 240 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ The Merry Widow
- April 10 - 11, 2025 · 265 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Becky Sharp