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Stanford Theatre

The Stanford Theatre first opened in 1925, and it served for decades as Palo Alto's premier movie house.

In 1987, after a blockbuster Fred Astaire Film Festival, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation bought the theatre and restored it to its original splendor. It is now owned and operated by the non-profit Stanford Theatre Foundation, presenting classic Hollywood films.

The renovated Stanford Theatre quickly became America's most popular place to watch classic Hollywood movies. More people saw Casablanca here on its 50th anniversary in 1992 than anywhere else in America.

Most classic films played here on their initial Palo Alto engagement.

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  Stanford Theatre

  221 University Ave.
  Palo Alto, CA 94301

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  Street parking is available but hard to come by. There are two large public parking structures within two blocks of the theatre. One is on Bryant Street, in the first block north of University Avenue. The other is on High Street, in the first block south of University Avenue.

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• Past Events

  12/24/08	It's a Wonderful Life (1940)
  12/19/08- 12/23/08	The Shop Around the Corner (1940) & The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  12/12/08- 12/18/08	The African Queen (1951) & Sabrina (1954)
  12/05/08- 12/11/08	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) & High Sierra (1941)
  08/30/08- 09/02/08	The Ten Commandments (1956)
  08/27/08- 08/29/08	Old Acquaintance (1943) & The Old Maid (1939)
  08/23/08- 08/26/08	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) & Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
  08/21/08- 08/22/08	The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) & The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
  08/20/08	Broken Blossoms (1919) & Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  08/16/08- 08/19/08	Female (1933) & My Man Godfrey (1936)
  08/13/08- 08/15/08	Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) & Horse Feathers (1932)
  08/09/08- 08/12/08	Harvey (1950) & Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
  08/07/08- 08/08/08	The Naked Spur (1953) & Broken Arrow (1950)
  08/06/08	The Cat and the Canary (1927) & The Cat and the Canary (1939)
  08/02/08- 08/05/08	All About Eve (1950) & The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
  07/30/08- 08/01/08	Show Boat (1936) & San Francisco (1936)
  07/26/08- 07/29/08	Father of the Bride (1950) & The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
  07/24/08- 07/25/08	Julius Caesar (1953) & The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
  07/23/08	Chicago (1927) & Roxie Hart (1942)
  07/19/08- 07/22/08	The Band Wagon (1953) & Top Hat (1935)
  07/16/08- 07/18/08	All This, and Heaven Too (1940) & Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  07/12/08- 07/15/08	Waterloo Bridge (1940) & Tin Pan Alley (1940)
  07/10/08- 07/11/08	Strategic Air Command (1955) & No Highway in the Sky (1951)
  07/09/08- 06/25/08	City Lights (1931) & The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
  07/05/08- 07/08/08	Kiss Me Kate (1953) & Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  07/02/08- 07/04/08	Duck Soup (1933) & Animal Crackers (1930)
  06/28/08- 07/01/08	Roman Holiday (1953) & Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  06/26/08- 06/27/08	The Glenn Miller Story (1953) & Orchestra Wives (1942)
  06/25/08	The Son of the Sheik (1926) & Road to Morocco (1942)
  06/21/08- 06/24/08	Dark Victory (1939) & The Little Foxes (1941)
  06/18/08- 06/20/08	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) & Beat the Devil (1953)
  06/14/08- 06/17/08	Charade (1963) & How To Steal A Million (1966)
  06/12/08- 06/13/08	The Far Country (1954) & Bend of the River (1952)
  06/05/08- 06/06/08	Satan Met A Lady (1936) & The Golden Arrow (1936)
  05/31/08- 06/01/08	It's Love I'm After (1937) & That Certain Woman (1937)
  05/29/08- 05/30/08	Kid Galahad (1937) & The Big Shakedown (1934)
  05/24/08- 05/25/08	The Petrified Forest (1936) & Bordertown (1935)
  05/22/08- 05/23/08	Girl from Tenth Avenue (1935) & Housewife (1934)
  05/17/08- 05/18/08	Dangerous (1935) & Marked Woman (1937)
  05/15/08- 05/16/08	Front Page Woman (1935) & Special Agent (1935)
  05/10/08- 05/11/08	Fog Over Frisco (1934) & Ex-Lady (1933)
  05/08/08- 05/09/08	Fashions of 1934 (1934) & Bureau of Missing Persons (1934)
  05/03/08- 05/04/08	Jimmy The Gent (1934) & Three On A Match (1932)
  05/01/08- 05/02/08	The Rich Are Always With Us (1932) & Hell's House (1932)
  04/26/08- 04/27/08	The Working Man (1933) & Parachute Jumper (1933)
  04/24/08- 04/25/08	So Big (1932) & Way Back Home (1931)
  04/19/08- 04/20/08	Cabin in the Cotton (1932) & 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
  04/17/08- 04/18/08	The Menace (1932) & Seed (1931)
  04/12/08- 04/13/08	The Man Who Played God (1932) & The Dark Horse (1932)
  04/10/08- 04/11/08	Waterloo Bridge (1931) & The Bad Sister (1931)
  04/04/08- 04/06/08	Of Human Bondage (1934) & Jezebel (1938)
  03/29/08- 03/31/08	Psycho (1960) & The Birds (1963)
  03/21/08- 03/24/08	North by Northwest (1959) & The Trouble With Harry (1955)
  03/14/08- 03/17/08	Vertigo (1958) & The Wrong Man (1956)
  03/07/08- 03/10/08	To Catch a Thief (1955) & Dial M for Murder (1954)
  02/29/08- 03/03/08	Rear Window (1954) & The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  02/22/08- 02/25/08	Strangers on a Train (1951) & Rope (1948)
  02/15/08- 02/18/08	Foreign Correspondent (1940) & Spellbound (1945)
  02/08/08- 02/11/08	Rebecca (1940) & Suspicion (1941)
  02/01/08- 02/04/08	The 39 Steps (1935) & Secret Agent (1936)
  01/25/08- 01/28/08	The Lady Vanishes (1938) & Young and Innocent (1937)
  12/24/07	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  12/21/07- 12/23/07	The Shop Around the Corner (1940) & The Bishop's Wife (1947)
  12/15/07- 12/18/07	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) & Dirigible (1931)
  12/14/07	Capra's Why We Fight Series
  12/08/07- 12/11/07	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) & American Madness (1932)
  12/07/07	Hot Saturday (1932) & Double Harness (1933)
  12/01/07- 12/04/07	You Can't Take It With You (1938) & The Younger Generation (1929)
  11/30/07	Silent Capra: The Strong Man (1926) & The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957)
  11/24/07- 11/27/07	Lost Horizon (1937) & The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
  11/23/07	The Devil to Pay (1930) & One Man's Journey (1933)
  09/29/07- 10/02/07	The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) & The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  09/26/07- 09/28/07	Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) & This Happy Breed (1944)
  09/22/07- 09/25/07	Spartacus (1960)
  09/19/07- 09/21/07	The Man From Laramie (1955) & Man of the West (1958)
  08/27/05- 08/30/05	All About Eve
  08/25/05- 08/26/05	Employees' Entrance
  08/25/05- 08/26/05	Baby Face
  08/24/05	Nosferatu
  08/20/05- 08/23/05	Sunset Boulevard
  08/20/05- 08/23/05	The Bride of Frankenstein
  12/24/04	It's a Wonderful Life
  12/17/04- 12/23/04	The Shop Around the Corner
  12/17/04- 12/23/04	Miracle on 34th Street
  12/15/04- 12/16/04	Shall We Dance
  12/15/04- 12/16/04	A Damsel in Distress
  12/10/04- 12/12/04	Desiree
  12/10/04- 12/12/04	Julius Caesar
  12/08/04- 12/09/04	Carefree
  12/08/04- 12/09/04	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
  12/03/04- 12/05/04	The Young Lions
  11/26/04	The Wild One
  11/26/04- 11/28/04	A Place in the Sun
  08/19/04- 08/20/04	The Letter
  08/19/04- 08/20/04	Dark Victory
  08/14/04	The Band Wagon
  08/14/04- 08/17/04	The Bad and the Beautiful
  08/12/04- 08/13/04	Witness for the Prosecution
  08/12/04- 08/13/04	Stage Fright
  07/17/04- 07/20/04	Kings Row (1942)