Celebrity Events
Annual events include the Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival every October. Past guests have included Hitchcock scream queens Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, author of “Footsteps in the Fog” Jeff Kraft and the famous director’s daughter Pat Hitchcock. The Wizard of Oz is featured every November in effort to recapture family traditions of watching it on TV every Thanksgiving; past guests have included Munchkins Mickey Carroll, Jerry Maren, Meinhardt Raabe, Margaret Pellegrini, Karl Slover and Clarence Swensen. It's A Wonderful Life is an annual holiday tradition featuring Karolyn Grimes who portrayed James Stewart and Donna Reed’s youngest daughter “Zuzu” Bailey and is responsible for uttering the classic line “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” Additionally, one time film festivals and tributes have met with great success including a Universal Horror Film Festival featuring Sara Karloff (daughter of Boris “Frankenstein” Karloff), Ron Chaney (grandson of Lon Chaney Jr.) and Bela Lugosi Jr. (son of Bela Lugosi ) and a Tarantino Film festival featuring David Carradine and Michael Madsen.
Other guests have included Hollywood legends such as Jane Russell, Tony Curtis, Shirley Jones and Peter Falk as well as more recent fixtures of pop culture such as Paris Hilton, Amanda Bynes, James & Oliver Phelps and stars of popular franchises such as Disney's Hannah Montana and High School Musical, Star Wars and Animal House.
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