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Archive: June 2017 (5 Posts)

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 29, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus.  Thursday, June 29 (7:30 p.m.) The Gazebo (MGM, 1959) Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford star as a married couple who are being blackmailed in this offbeat comedy involving murder and a backyard gazebo. Based on the hit Broadway play of the same …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 22 – 24, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 22 (7:30 p.m.) Copacabana (United Artists, 1947) Groucho Marx, in his first film without his brothers, stars as two-bit theatrical agent Lionel Q. Devereaux, whose overzealous promotion of his only client — fireball entertainer Carmen Novarro (Carmen Miranda) results in …

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Photo Blog #17: Cowboys and Question Marks

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This, #17 in the LOC’s mystery movie-still blog, is all Western-themed.  Westerns were, of course, one of Hollywood’s most popular genres and thousands of them have been produced over the years.  Hence, some of the stars and titles of them have, not surprisingly, faded from memory.  So we need your help to tell us who and in …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (June 14-17, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Rachel Del Gaudio of the Packard Campus. Wednesday, June 14 (7:30 p.m.) Behind the Door (Paramount, 1919) Described by esteemed film historian Kevin Brownlow as “the most outspoken of all the WWI vengeance films,” this shockingly graphic drama was directed by Irvin Willat and stars Hobart Bosworth as …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 8-10, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 8 (7:30 p.m.) A Global Affair (MGM, 1964) Bob Hope stars as Frank Larrimore, an official at the United Nations in New York, who finds himself in charge of an infant that was abandoned in the building. Besides being an …