Festival News: First Additions to the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Line-Up Announced

World Premiere Restorations & Perennial Favorites AnnouncedExclusive Citi Festival Pass Presale Begins 10 AM (ET) November 17 Festival Passes on Sale to the Public at Noon (ET), November 19 Join TCM hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz, special celebrity guests, noted film historians and thousands of movie fans from around the globe next April 28-May 1 for the ultimate classic film celebration: the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival! This year's main theme is MOVING PICTURES—the ones that bring us to tears, rouse us to action, inspire us, even project us to a higher plane. In the heart of historic Hollywood we'll gather to share the big-time emotions of big screen stories, from coming-of-age pictures to terminal tearjerkers, from powerful sports dramas we feel in our bones to religious epics that elevate our spirits. These are the films that set our love of cinema in motion. To kick off our celebration we're thrilled to announce the first additions to the 2016 Festival line up: HORSE FEATHERS (1932) World Premiere Restoration The Marx Bros. bring their manic and surrealistic style of comedy to college football and academia when College president Groucho enlists Chico and Harpo to help his team beat a rival in one of the funniest football games in movie history, shown in a new restoration presented in collaboration with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932) World Premiere Restoration The pairing of director Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich turns this melodramatic tale of bandits and ladies of easy virtue into one of the most exotic experiences in film history, shown in a new restoration presented in collaboration with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1943) Jennifer Jones gives a luminous (and Oscar-winning) performance as Bernadette Soubirous, the real-life peasant girl whose visions of the Virgin Mary inspired the townspeople of Lourdes in the 19th-century. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945) Elia Kazan made a spectacular film-directing debut with this story of an immigrant Irish family's struggle to make it in the new world. The film also brought Oscars to James Dunn as the family's hard-drinking father and Peggy Ann Garner as his daughter. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) This heartwarming tale and perennial fan favorite (celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2016) stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a small-town man who learns just how important a single life can be thanks to the help of an angel named Clarence (Henry Travers). THE KING AND I (1956) 60th anniversary presentation of the lavish film adaptation of the Broadway hit starring Deborah Kerr as an English governess who brings modern ways to 19th century Siam, and falls in love with its king (Yul Brynner) in the process. Mark your calendar as a limited number of 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival passes will also be available to Citi cardmembers via an exclusive online only presale at https://www.citiprivatepass.com/. This exclusive presale begins at 10 AM (ET), Tuesday, November 17 and ends at 10 AM (ET), Thursday, November 19. Passes for the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival go on sale to the public via http://www.tcm.com/festival at 12pm (ET), Thursday, November 19, 2015! To get complete information about 2016 pass prices and levels, please click here. Stay tuned for more exciting film and special guest announcements in the coming weeks! TM & © 2015 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. PRIVACY POLICY | TERMS OF USE Please do not reply to this message. Replies are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. This message was sent to you at You have received this email because you provided your email address to TCM. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click here. To manage your TCM email subscriptions, sign-in to your profile on TCM.com. For all issues not related to this email, click here . TCM's use of your information will be consistent with its Privacy Policy. Email Administration, One CNN Center, Atlanta, GA 30303.