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# Buy movie memorabilia, jazz it up and support a local film institute
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/buy-movie-memorabilia-jazz-it-up-and-support-a-local-film-institute/
- Published: 2003-08-08T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:42:00.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Looking to put a little jazz into your life while loading up on movie memorabilia?

It’s possible this Sunday at the Union Restaurant for the American Film Institute Associates’ first fundraiser. The event, “An Evening Under the Stars,” will give guests a chance to enjoy cabaret and jazz performances while bidding on silent auction items of movie memorabilia and dining under the night sky.

The silent auction will feature rarities like an annotated original screenplay of “Psycho” signed by Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins; a first edition of “The Martian Chronicles,” signed by Ray Bradbury; a police helmet worn by Tom Cruise in Minority Report; a 78 rpm playback recording of a song performed by Marilyn Monroe in “River of No Return,” as well as items from “Titanic.”

Meanwhile, performers will include cabaret artists Ray Jessell and jazz musicians Stacey Rowles, Ron Kalina, Herb Mickman and Jeff Lass.

The AFI Associates was founded in 1984 as a volunteer group raising funds for the American Film Institute. Since then, the group’s membership has more than tripled from 30 to 100 people and the associates have raised more than $3.5 million. The funds serve to help students of the institute and to maintain Hollywood’s most precious possessions, its movies.

“We feel it is worthwhile to give young people opportunities and also to preserve films,” said Penny Bigelow, an event co-chair.

Future events which the AFI Associates hope to organize include the “International and Classic Film Series.” The group also hopes to continue hosting “Family Values Luncheons,” which are events honoring prominent Hollywood families such as past winners like the Fondas.

“An Evening Under the Stars” will take place on Aug. 10 at the Union Restaurant, located at 1413 Fifth Street. The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails followed by dinner and entertainment. Tickets are $125 and require reservations, which can be made by calling (310) 652-1996 or (310) 275-7126.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 8, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080803.pdf?ref=smdp.com)