Film Festival: The Holidays IN THE SUMMER of 1903, all that the people of St. Louis could think about was the upcoming Louisiana Purchase Exposition: the World’s Fair of 1904. This Fair (coinciding with the Olympics) would present the greatest that America — and the world — had to offer. Forty years later when this…
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Lisa’s Home Bijou: Remember the Night
Film Festival: The Holidays CAN A THIEF AND a prosecutor find happiness together at Christmas? That’s the situation Preston Sturges creates for Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Remember the Night (1940). Though not as well known as other holiday classic films, this romantic comedy is a great demonstration of an old-fashioned loving family celebration….