Kristin's List: A Guide to Cultivated Los Angeles

The Heritage Museum’s “Lights! Camera! Glamour! The Photography of George Hurrell” exhibit displays more than eighty iconic photographs of Hollywood actors.

As studio photographer for MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia, Hurrell shot some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing personalities, creating the template for the Hollywood glamour portrait. His flawless photography was instrumental in shaping the images of stars such as Joan Crawford, James Cagney, and Rita Hayworth.

The exhibition also features a replica of Hurrell’s studio, with his camera, boom light and hand painted screen and a room of nude portraits, many of which are being shown for the first time.

WHEN: 11am-4pm Wed-Sun
ADMISSION: $5 General Admission/$3 Seniors & Students
WHERE: California Heritage Museum
ADDRESS: 2612 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405
PHONE: (310) 392-8537
WEBSITE: www.californiaheritagemuseum.org
ADDITIONAL INFO: The exhibit runs from January 8 thru June 29

The City of West Hollywood is premiering the film “Banished” which documents how dozens of towns across America violently expelled entire African American communities from the 1860’s to the 1920’s.

Thousands of black families were forced to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. “Banished,” tells the story of three of these communities and their black descendants, who return to learn shocking histories.

WHEN: 7:30pm
ADMISSION: Free, reservations required, RSVP to lacommunitycinema@gmail.com
WHERE: The Pacific Design Center
ADDRESS: 8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
CONTACT:http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/getinvolved.html

The Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences is currently exhibiting “Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland.” The show includes 125 photographs of such classic and current screen stars as Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, and Meryl Streep as well as such behind-the-camera luminaries as Ingmar Bergman and Oliver Stone.

Kirkland, an acclaimed Hollywood photographer, represents a literal “who’s who” of the film world of the last half-century. He has worked on the sets of more than 100 motion pictures – from period dramas to musicals – that include such Best Picture Oscar® winners as “Out of Africa” and “Titanic.”

Other film personalities depicted in “Freeze Frame” include, from the 1960s – Judy Garland, Akira Kurosawa, and Peter Sellers; from the 1970s – Donald Sutherland, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson and Francis Ford Coppola; from the 1980s – Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Susan Sarandon, and Kevin Kline; from the 1990s – Kate Winslet, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Poitier and Arnold Schwarzenegger; and from the 2000s – Baz Luhrmann, Ewan McGregor, Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson.

WHEN: 10am-5pm Tues-Fri, 12noon-6pm Sat-Sun
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
ADDRESS: 8949 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
PHONE: (310) 247-3000
WEBSITE: www.oscars.org
ADDITIONAL INFO: The exhibit closes April 20

Join Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys for a night of obscure, naughty, and lovely songs from 1915 thru 1937 at Maxwell DeMille’s Cicada Club. To guarantee seating for the show make a dinner reservation to dine at the Cicada Restaurant.

Klein, a popular Hollywood chanteuse, performs with uncommon authenticity. She conjures up the image of a gut-bucking vamp like no one does. Such selections as “What A Night For Spooning,” “Good Little Bad Little You” or the “Sheik of Avenue B” say it all. She’s like a svelte dream in a vintage Vitaphone short, pitching woo as she transports one to a time when novelty and a bit of sentimental swing were the thing.

The Cicada Club, which is housed in downtown’s Oviatt Building, is considered an Art Deco masterpiece.

WHEN: 6pm doors open, 8pm showtime
ADMISSION: Free, make a dinner reservation to guarantee seating
WHERE: Maxwell DeMille’s Cicada Club
ADDRESS: 617 S. Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014
PARKING: Valet
PHONE: (213) 361-6186
CONTACT: www.clubcicada.com
ADDITIONAL INFO: To learn more about Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys visit www.janetklein.com

To celebrate designer Charles Eames’ centennial year the Eames Office is presenting two exhibitions, “Charles Eames: Part II, California to the World,” and “Gifted Eye of Charles Eames: A Portfolio of 100 Images.”

Charles Eames (1907-1978) is one of the most important American designers of this century. He and his wife, Ray, are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (i.e. the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

WHEN: 11am-6pm Wed-Sat
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: Eames Office
ADDRESS: 850 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
PHONE: (310) 396-5991
WEBSITE: www.eamesgallery.com
ADDITIONAL INFO: The exhibit runs from January 17 thru July 17