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The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre presents “Rafter Romance”
Thursday, September 22, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
William Seiter directed this romantic comedy that stars Ginger Rogers as Mary, an underpaid New York working girl who is having trouble paying the rent on her Greenwich Village apartment. Her landlord comes up with a solution – that she share a loft in shifts with Jack (Norman Foster), a struggling artist who works as a night watchman. Though they never see each other, Mary develops a pronounced dislike for Jack – until she meets him. Matters get more complicated by the presence of Robert Benchley as H. Harrington Hubbell, Mary’s boss, a lecherous if bumbling executive. Benchley was known for writing and starring in a number of short subject comedies both at MGM and Paramount. Two of them, “The Witness” (1942) and “The Courtship of the Newt” (1938), will be shown before the feature. Free, at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, VA.