The Museum of Modern Art Film Archive first saw life 80 years ago when it was founded as the Film Library, with producer/ collector John Hay Whitney as its chairman. The Archive now includes more than 22,000 films and 4 million movie stills, incorporating all periods and genres, to stand as the strongest international film collection in the United States. The collection is stored in the Museum's Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, a state-of-the-art facility that opened in Hamlin, PA in 1996.

The films showing in our salute were given restorations on 35mm by MoMA and each will be introduced by a co-host from MoMA: Associate Curator Anne Morra. Two of them are TCM premieres: Don't Bet on Women (1931), a pre-Code comedy starring Jeanette MacDonald and directed by William K. Howard; and Never Fear (1949, aka The Young Lovers) a drama directed by pioneer female filmmaker Ida Lupino about a young woman (Sally Forrest) struggling with a diagnosis of polio. Little Fugitive (1953), the study of a boy who goes "on the lam" on Coney Island, was directed by Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin and Morris Engel, and shown in conjunction with the 2012 MoMA exhibition "Century of the Child."