Join the Corona Historic Preservation Society at Starlight Cinema at Dos Lagos on Saturday, October 20 at 11 a.m. to watch "Storm Warning" on the BIG screen! Many scenes were filmed in Corona nearly 70 years ago.

This is a great opportunity for all Coronans.

ABOUT STORM WARNING 

“Storm Warning” was filmed in 1949 and was considered to be quite controversial because it had to do with the downtown murder of a local reporter by Ku Klux Klan members (complete with white hoods and robes). It is gritty and passionate and is melodramatic in the “film noir” style of movie making. Just as Warner Brothers Studio promised decades ago, once you see this impactful film, it’s one you are unlikely to forget.

Major movie stars starred in this film: Doris Day, in her first non-singing role; Ginger Rogers, who played Doris’s sister and was a glamorous fashion model; Ronald Reagan, who played a prosecutor from the county district attorney’s office in the only political-themed movie of his career, and the handsome Steve Cochran, who played a total loser and cad, as he portrayed Doris Day’s horrible husband.

Corona had a population of around 10,000 when it was scouted by Warner Brothers Studio and was determined to be the ideal city in which to make the movie due to the proximity of the locations needed for its script. “Storm Warning” was filmed here in less than two weeks in 1949. It was released in January 1951 and was first shown here at what was once the Corona Theater on East 6^th Street.

Click here to view photos and clips of where some scenes were filmed in historic Corona! 

TICKETS

This event is being sponsored by the Corona Historic Preservation Society (CHPS). It is the third Quarterly Meeting for members of CHPS so there is no admission charge for ‘official’ members. (Being a member of the CHPS Facebook sites does not qualify you as being an “official’ member.)

For non-members tickets are just $5 and can be purchased online here. 

JOIN CHPS

Joining the CHPS will provide you with great opportunities for a variety of special field trips and meetings, an 8-page full color CHPS Newsletter sent to you every other month, and attendance at our fabulous yearly Holiday Party held at the Corona Woman’s Improvement Club’s 105-year-old clubhouse.

Please visit our website: www.Corona-History.org to join. For any questions, please call 951-371-5291.