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Archive for 2017 (73 posts)

Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Dec. 21, 2017)

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, December 21 (7:30 p.m.) It’s a Wonderful Life (RKO, 1946) Director Frank Capra created a holiday favorite with this story of a once ambitious young man George Bailey (James Stewart) who sacrifices personal adventure to stand up against the despot Potter […]

Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Dec. 14-16, 2017)

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, December 14 (7:30 p.m.) Double Feature: 1930s Leading Ladies – Ginger Rogers and Claudette Colbert The Thirteenth Guest (Monogram, 1932) Ginger Rogers stars as Marie Morgan, one of the guests who are reassembled from a dinner party that took place 13 […]

Now Playing at the Packard Campus (December 7-9, 2017)

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, December 7 (7:30 p.m.) Road to Bali (Paramount, 1952) Bob Hope and Bing Crosby play a pair of vaudevillians on the run from a shotgun wedding who sign on to a deep-sea diving expedition in the South Pacific. There, they meet […]

Now Playing at the Packard Campus (Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2017)

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 30 (7:30 p.m.) Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942) One of the most beloved of American films, this captivating romantic adventure directed by Michael Curtiz is the story of world-weary ex-freedom fighter Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during […]

Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Nov. 30, 2017)

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em>The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 30 (7:30 p.m.) Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942) One of the most beloved of American films, this captivating romantic adventure directed by Michael Curtiz is the story of world-weary ex-freedom fighter Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during […]

Now Playing at the Packard Campus (November 16-18, 2017)

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 16 (7:30 p.m.) Peter Pan (Paramount, 1924) The first film adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s enormously successful 1902 stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up remains one of the silent era’s most successful fantasies, notable not only […]