Screenings are free, but ticketed. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Directed by William Wyler November 23 - Saturday - 3:00 p.m. Winner of 7 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, this post-war classic follows three returning WWII veterans as they try to recover their respective lives. Harold Russell, Fredric March and Dana Andrews play the servicemen whose lives will never be the same. Each of the men are from different stations in life, and each are faced with their own forms of reconciliation. From relationships to job expectations, each crisis has roots in their war experiences. The film was a powerful statement in post-war 1946, and remains a relevant document of daily life in 1940’s America. (HD presentation. 172 min. Not Rated.) Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture with Peter Davis November 22 Friday 3:00 p.m. Topper (1937) Directed by Norman Z. McLeod November 24 - Sunday - 3:00 p.m. Produced by Hal Roach for MGM, Topper, adapted from a Thorne Smith novel, is the first in a series of elegant comedies that center on a wealthy, fun-loving couple who, through the fate of a car accident, become ghosts. The Kerbys (Constance Bennent and Cary Grant) were stockholders in a bank ran by Cosmo Topper. While they kill time as ghosts in ‘limbo’ they pledge to liberate the stuffy Topper. Tensions flare when playful Marion Kerby takes too personal of interest in the task. Hoagy Carmichael is conveniently on-hand to introduce the film’s signature tune, Old Man Moon. 35mm preservation print courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archive. (35mm. 97 min. Not Rated.) cinema.indiana.edu Celebrating of Hoagy Carmichael 47