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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
