HRPS Presents: Apartment for Peggy

Time: Doors open at 6pm. Movie starts at 6:30pm.

Join us for a bit of nostalgia and a view of the 1940s University of Nevada, Reno campus. Our host will occasionally stop the movie to point out the Reno scenes and talk about the history of movie and the location.

Reno Little Theater's concession stand will be open at 6pm (and during intermission), so grab a beverage and enjoy a relaxing (and interesting) evening.

Apartment for Peggy is a 1948 American comedy-drama film about a depressed professor whose spirits are lifted when he rents part of his home to a young couple. It was based on the novelette, An Apartment for Jenny by Faith Baldwin. Campus exteriors were filimed at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Plot: Peggy (Jeanne Crain) is an exuberant young woman married to Jason Taylor (William Holden), a veteran going into college on the G.I. Bill in hopes of becoming a teacher. The two are attempting to adjust to the boom of the years if the late 1940s. While Jason takes classes, the couple has little money and needs a place to stay. They are recommended to Henry Barnes (Edmund Gwenn), a philosophy professor who has planned to commit suicide. However, meeting the Taylors revives Barnes, as their positive attitude make him realize he still has a purpose in life.