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Members Only | Hollywood and History: FDR's New Deal

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025
Time: 6:30–8pm
Location: The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue

As the Great Depression gripped the nation, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal—an ambitious series of programs aimed at restoring morale and putting Americans back to work. Hollywood responded with films that echoed the era's hardships, championed reform, or critiqued the expanding federal bureaucracy. Featuring selections from the Wolfsonian collection alongside clips from Our Daily Bread (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), One Third of a Nation (1939), and others, this talk by chief librarian Frank Luca explores how cinema mirrored and shaped public perceptions of economic struggle, political hope, and national recovery.

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Banner image inspired by: Catalogue (detail), Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, 1939. M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, publisher. The Wolfsonian–FIU, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection.