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Happy Valentine’s Day

Feb 13, 2019

Love is in the Air 

Our staff has put together a calendar of activities and culinary delights to allow our residents to celebrate in whatever way suits them best. 

  • Kicking off the day in our beautifully renovated Great Room, Tina will lead our Valentine Social, where special memories and sweet treats will be shared.
  • Lovely themed decorations make our dining room festive. Lunch will feature Chef Mike’s Valentine’s Hot Chocolate, a resident favorite, as well as a choice of rack of lamb or salmon. 
  • Bob LaValley will be back by popular demand with song and dance in the Great Room.
  • The day wraps up with two movies in the evening: The Best of Me, a romantic drama starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan, and Annie Hall, the classic romantic drama starring Diane Keaton and Woody Allen. 

Speaking of Romantic Movies

While we’re at it, here’s a list of some of the greatest love-themed films!
* indicates movie was based on a novel or short-story.

1990s to Present

Silver Linings Playbook*
La La Land
Eat Pray Love
The Five Year Engagement
The Shape of Water
Beauty and the Beast*
Love Actually
The Notebook*
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Bridget Jones’s Diary*
Amelie
Pride and Prejudice*
Chocolat*
It’s Complicated
Atonement*
Enchanted
As Good as it Gets
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Shallow Hal
Jane Eyre*
Titanic
Sleepless in Seattle
Four Weddings and a Funeral
You’ve Got Mail
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Groundhog Day
Jerry Maguire
Bridges of Madison County*
Howard’s End*
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge*
Ghost
Forrest Gump*
Shakespeare in Love
About a Boy*
The English Patient*

1960s to 1980s

When Harry Met Sally
The Princess Bride*
Dirty Dancing
Say Anything
Out of Africa*
The French Lieutenant’s Woman*
Heartburn*
Mystic Pizza
Bull Durham
On Golden Pond
Love Story
Grease
The Goodbye Girl
Harold and Maude
The Way We Were*
Heaven Can Wait
The Great Gatsby*
Carnal Knowledge
Last Tango in Paris
Breakfast at Tiffany’s*
Doctor Zhivago*
The Graduate*
Bonnie and Clyde
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Cleopatra
Irma la Douce
Alfie

1930s to 1950s

Roman Holiday
From Here to Eternity*
Some Like It Hot
An Affair to Remember
Singin’ in the Rain
The Seven Year Itch
A Place in the Sun*
Sabrina
The King and I
A Star is Born
An American in Paris
Brigadoon
Casablanca
The Philadelphia Story
Woman of the Year
His Gal Friday
Meet Me in St. Louis*
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir*
Great Expectations*
The Devil and Miss Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
For Me and My Gal*
Gone with the Wind*
Bringing Up Baby
My Man Godfrey*
It Happened One Night*
Wuthering Heights*
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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