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The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre presents “The Great Garrick”
Thursday, July 7, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
(Warner Bros., 1937) James Whale directed this entertaining fictional comedy set around a real person, the great 18th-century British actor David Garrick. Before Garrick (Brian Aherne) goes to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France, he is mistakenly quoted as saying that he is “going to France to teach the French how to act.” The actors and director of the Comedie Francaise take this as a serious insult and thus plot to embarrass The Great Garrick with a great prank. Olivia de Havilland co-stars as the love interest with a supporting cast featuring Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Lionel Atwill and Lana Turner. We will be screening a new 35 mm film print recently produced by the Library of Congress Film Preservation Lab. Free, at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, VA. No reservations required. For more information, call 202-707-9994.