Little Art Theatre presents: Retro Matinee for June. This month’s screening is The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn on Saturday, June 21st at 3 pm.

The African Queen (1951) is the tale of two mismatched companions who develop an implausible love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. This quixotic film by director John Huston is one of the classics of Hollywood adventure filmmaking, with comedy and romance besides. It was the first color film for the two leads and for director Huston.

The acting of the two principal actors — Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn — is some of the strongest ever registered on film, although this was their first and only pairing together. They portray an unshaven, drinking and smoking captain of a cranky tramp steamer, and a prissy and proper, but imperious and unorthodox WWI-era African missionary spinster.

Read here about interesting info behind-the-scenes:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/11/anjelica-john-huston-african-queen