Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in their first movie pairing. Sparks fly when sophisticated Kate and down-to-earth Spence get together. It's an uneasy alliance: she's ambitious, he's old- fashioned. When they wed, he teaches her what counts in a 1940s marriage. "The romance crackles with wit and spunk."--James Monaco. 1942

"Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries."--Spencer Tracy's friend, Roscoe Karns

2008 marks the 12th year of great classic movies In Auburn, California. Once a month in the Auburn Library's Beecher Room, celebrate the golden age of the silver screen.

Romance and adventure, comedy and dance, mystery and music --it's another year of classics from Silver Screen! These movies resonate with great stories and great actors, such as Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier and Spencer Tracy -- and great directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and George Stevens.

After 50, 60, even 80 years, these movies continue to amaze, delight, and entertain. The stars continue to gleam in the dark on the silver screen.

Join us as we continue to honor an age long gone but fondly remembered.

Presented by the Auburn Library, the movies are shown at 2 and 7 p.m. in the Beecher Room of the library, at 350 Nevada St. in Auburn. Admission is free.