The New York State Museum will welcome Ms. Betsy Palmer of FRIDAY THE 13TH fame, as part of The 2nd Annual Classic Horror Movie Festival on November 11th.

Ms. Palmer will be introducing the film and staying for a Q&A afterwards. The film screenings begin at 11AM, with FRIDAY THE 13TH beginning around 5:30 PM. Films will be shown at the Museum Theater, and the cost is $5.00 per person.

The 2nd Annual Classic Horror Movie Festival
With Special Guest Betsy Palmer of FRIDAY THE 13TH
New York State Museum Theater
November 11
Films begin at 11AM

Film Schedule:
11:00 am - THE SHINING
1:30 pm - POLTERGEIST
3:30 pm - THE LOST BOYS
5:30 pm - FRIDAY THE 13TH

Ms. Palmer will introduce FRIDAY THE 13TH, and after the film will participate in a Q&A session with the audience. Admission is $5.00 for an entire day of movie viewing.

Betsy Palmer

Direct from Chicago's DePaul University, Betsy Palmer underwent intensive training at New York's Actors Studio, supporting herself as a secretary. She made her professional bow in stock in Wisconsin and Illinois in 1950; one year later, she made the first of hundreds of TV appearances. In 1955, Palmer first appeared on Broadway in The Grand Prize, and that same year launched her sporadic film career. Later stage credits included Forty Carats, in which she successfully replaced Lauren Bacall, and extensive touring in the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific. To millions of baby-boomers, Palmer will forever be associated with her work as a panelist on such TV game shows as I've Got a Secret; a later generation of televiewers will most readily recall her as Virginia Bullock on the 1989-90 season of Knot's Landing. To those whose teen years coincided with the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, Betsy Palmer is known only as the vicious, vengeful, ax-wielding Mrs. Voorhees (Jason's mom) in the first Friday the 13th (1980); reportedly, Palmer won that role because she was willing to drive her own car to and from location shoots.

For further details on this event, call (518) 473-2936.