About this Event
Part of our Calling All Creatives series
Saturday, December 19, 2026
LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
AFTERPARTY: The Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater is from 9p-12a. We want everyone who wants to to come dressed in classic 1930’s and 1940’s holiday fashion. We’ll have carolers, cocoa, cider, dancing, dj’s, & more to celebrate the holidays. Your ticket gets you access to explore the entire theater, tours, the chance to hang in our secret VIP room (for folks who buy the VIP All Access Pass), full bar, food, and more. Drinks and food are pay as you go so bring your card. Classic Hollywood dress encouraged. Only 750 tickets available. All previous Afterparty events (like our Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, and Halloween-o-thon afterparties) have sold out.
SPECIAL NOTE: This is part of our Calling All Creatives series celebrating movies, Hollywood, and the city of Los Angeles in preparation for our 2027 season. Secret Movie Club will run movie events, festivals, workshops to encourage moviemaking and creativity in Los Angeles, the city we love all 2027.
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4p 35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS (dir by Michael Curtiz, w/Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Paramount, 120mns, USA, 1954, 35mm)
Filmmaker Michael Curtiz could do it all so effortlessly. Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Here Curtiz, late in his career, crafts a frothy, holiday musical from what feels like spare parts from other movies. It’s like the director could make an expensive cadillac out of used car parts.
White Christmas uses the classic Hollywood structure of entertainers putting on shows to showcase a collection of Irving Berlin classic songs. Here the story follows World War II army buddies and later singing/dancing duo Bob Wallace (Crosby) and Phil Davis (Kaye). They become a much coveted entertaining team after the war and cross paths with up and coming sister act of Betty (Clooney) and Judy (Ellen) Haynes.
Romance and complications ensue with the quartet go to the Columbia Inn in Vermont to discover its owner is none other than General Waverly who commanded Bob and Phil in the war. And he’s about to go bankrupt. So what do you do?
You put on a show!
Shot in VistaVision, White Christmas became the biggest hit of 1954 and has endured for generations as an example of feel-good classic Hollywood holiday moviemaking.
Want to see a classic movie on 35mm in a movie palace? Join us, bring the family, and dream yourself a snowy White Christmas and cinema classic.
6p-645p Holiday Intermission — we'll have full bar, food, and concessions available.
645p IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (co-wri & dir by Frank Capra, w/ Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond, Paramount, 135mns, USA, 1946, 35mm)
As has become our annual tradition, we end the year with a 35mm screening of Frank Capra’s eternal holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life. On a 35mm print. In a movie palace. With movielovers and moviemakers.
On the night of great crisis, angels from above review the life of hard working selfless George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart in his personal favorite movie role of his career). We see George go from boy to middle aged man and never leave his hometown of Bedford Falls. Instead, he always does the responsible thing, helps his neighbors, marries incredibly resourceful Mary (Reed), raises a family. But he’s also a thorn in the side of local richest man Mr. Potter (Barrymore) who wants to own and control the town and always finds George standing in his way.
When George, under great stress, considers killing himself so his family can get the insurance money, guardian angel Clarence (Travers) suddenly appears to show George what life would have been like had George never been born.
Not only one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) holiday movies of all time, It’s A Wonderful Life is one of the GREAT movies. Frank Capra and his team came up with a modern day A Christmas Carol structure that has one of the great third acts in all of cinema.
Powered by Capra’s 1930’s and 1940’s ensemble cast of great character actors, It’s A Wonderful Life is about the most important lesson of all-that people and kindness are the true currency of the world.
Join us for a great holiday movie and stay for a holiday party with movie lovers and movie makers.
9p-12a The Bedford Falls Ball AFTERPARTY @ the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace.
You can get tickets to any individual movie and add the Afterparty a la carte or get the VIP or Standard Double Feature All-Access pass (both movies, with afterparty, best deals; VIP gets you a reserved seat 1st floor center rows and access to our special VIP room during Afterparty).
The Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater is from 9p-12a. Classic Hollywood 1930’s and 1940’s holiday fashion encouraged. We’ll have carolers, cocoa, cider, dancing, dj’s, & maybe even a Charleston contest! and more to celebrate the holidays. Your ticket gets you access to explore the entire theater, tours, the chance to hang in our secret VIP room (for folks who buy the VIP All Access Pass), full bar, food, and more. Drinks and food are pay as you go so bring your card. Classic Hollywood dress encouraged. Only 750 tickets available. All previous Afterparty events (like our Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, and Halloween-o-thon afterparties) have sold out.
Please note we have confirmed 35mm prints for White Christmas and It’s A Wonderful Life.
Event venue & nearby stays
Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway, Los Angeles, United States
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