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Archive: October 2017 (7 Posts)

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (November 1-4, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Wednesday, November 1 (7:30 p.m.) Marty Stuart Sessions: Connie Smith (Live)–SOLD OUT Country Music Hall of Famer Connie Smith will be joined by her husband and multiple Grammy-Award winning country music singer-songwriter Marty Stuart in a live performance, as part of the ongoing “Marty …

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Now Playing at the Packard Theater (Oct. 26-28, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 26 (7:30 p.m.) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Warner Bros., 1962) Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson, a demented and aging former movie star, who holds her paraplegic sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) captive in a decaying Hollywood mansion. Directed …

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Photo Blog #21: More Lingering Mysteries

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

It is #21 in the Library of Congress’s movie mystery still blog.  As we did last month, this time we are reposting a few stills that are still in search of a solution. As always, “clicking” on any of the images below will increase them in size so that they are easier to see.  Please …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (Oct. 19-21, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 19 (7:30 p.m.) The Killers (Universal, 1946) Director Robert Siodmak and screenwriter Anthony Veiller, both nominated for an Oscar, took the original Ernest Hemingway short story as the film’s opening point and developed it with an elaborate series of flashbacks, …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (October 12-14, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest-post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus.  Thursday, October 12 (7:30 p.m.) Johnny Eager (MGM, 1941) Robert Taylor plays Johnny Eager, a parolee who is pretending to go straight as a cab driver but is still connected to the mob. Through his parole officer, Eager meets sociology student Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner), who …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (October 5, 2017)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 5 (7:30 p.m.) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Universal, 1982 – Rated PG) Director Carl Reiner and Steve Martin collaborated on this film noir parody with Martin playing Private Detective Rigby Reardon, who is trying to solve the murder of a …