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Each spring, the TCM Classic Film Festival welcomes 25,000 movie fans from around the globe to Hollywood to celebrate the art and history of cinema. A destination event, the TCM Classic Film Festival features more than a hundred screenings of classic movies, along with appearances by legendary stars, live interviews, extensive panel discussions, special exhibits and more.

Set to take place Thursday, April 25 – Sunday, April 28 in Hollywood, the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, will open with a gala presentation of the newly restored musical classic Funny Girl (1968). The packed lineup for this year’s festival includes tributes to Jane Fonda, who will have her hand and footprints enshrined at the TCL Chinese Theatre prior to a screening of On Golden Pond (1981); Max von Sydow, who will attend screenings of The Seventh Seal (1957) and Three Days of the Condor (1975); Ann Blyth, who is set to appear at screenings of Mildred Pierce (1945) and Kismet (1955); and documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles whose extraordinary career will be celebrated with presentations of his films Gimme Shelter (1970) and Salesman (1968).

The TCM Classic Festival will feature appearances by Mitzi Gaynor and France Nuyen, who will attend a special poolside screening of South Pacific (1958) on the opening night of the festival. Also set to appear at this year’s festival are Tippi Hedren, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, Marvin Kaplan, Barrie Chase, Polly Bergen, Coleen Gray, Theodore Bikel, Norman Lloyd and Jacqueline White, as well as Essentials Jr. host Bill Hader. Also making appearances will be filmmakers Kevin Brownlow, Jerry Schatzberg, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, along with producer Stanley Rubin, Clara Bow biographer David Stenn, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) film collections manager Katie Trainor and director Nicholas Ray’s widow, Susan Ray. In addition, the festival will celebrate Bugs Bunny’s 75th Birthday, with a collection of shorts curated and presented by Leonard Maltin and Jerry Beck. Silent film composer Carl Davis will be on hand to conduct his score for the classic It (1927). And The Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein will present a special screening of Frank Capra’s The Donovan Affair (1929), complete with live voice actors and sound effects to replace the film’s long-lost soundtrack. Among the many restorations set to premiere at the festival are The Big Parade (1925), The General (1926), Giant (1956), The Great Escape (1963) and Badlands (1973), plus many more.

Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl

TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne serves as official host of the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz also introducing films and events during the festival. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which has a longstanding role in movie history and was the site of the first Academy AwardsÒ ceremony, will once again serve as the official hotel for the festival, as well as a central gathering point for attendees. Screenings and events will also be held at the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre, the El Capitan Theatre, Avalon Hollywood and Arclight’s Cinerama Dome. The Hollywood Roosevelt will also offer special rates for festival attendees.

Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies, the theme for the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, will explore how movies can carry viewers beyond their hometowns to distant or imaginary locales, where they can be transformed by great storytelling. Often, the mode of travel provides the filmic inspiration, whether it’s planes, trains, or automobiles. At other times, the trip itself serves as the central narrative, as in the case of many “road movies.” With Hollywood as the starting point, TCM’s cinematic excursion will take festival attendees on a fascinating journey to worlds both familiar and new.

For more information of the festival please check out http://tcm.com/festival