Classic Movie

Catch a Classic at the Library

Enjoy films from Hollywood's Golden Era.

Join us for a series of classic films from the 1930s through the mid-1960s. 

• Tuesday, October 15, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  • Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in director Frank Capra's classic comedy. When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men die happy... by feeding them a wonderful meal before poisoning them. Now, Mortimer desperately wants to protect the two serial murderers he loves, stop them from killing anyone else, and keep his bride from discovering how deranged his family really is.
  • Rated: TV-G
  • Runtime: 118 minutes
  • Studio: Warner Bros.

• Tuesday, November 19, Pillow Talk (1959)
  • Rock Hudson-Doris Day romp about a playboy songwriter and a career woman who feud over their shared party line, then meet and fall in love. An Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay; Day was nominated for Best Actress; and Thelma Ritter received a Best Supporting Actress nod as Day's tipsy maid.
  • Rated: TV-G
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Studio: Universal Pictures

• Tuesday, December 10, Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 
  • Edmund Gwenn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a department-store Santa Claus who runs afoul of the store's nasty in-house psychiatrist and is forced to go on trial to prove he's the real Kris Kringle. A Best Picture nominee, the film's director George Seaton won an Oscar for his script.
  • Rated: TV-G
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

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