The Amateur Gentleman
Silent Tuesdays This early Eastman Museum preservation came from an original nitrate print and hasn’t been screened at the Dryden Theatre in six decades! Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
Married to the Mob
Jonathan Demme Comedies Angela DeMarco (Michelle Pfeiffer) married into a Mafia family, not realizing that she’d have stacks of boxes of electronics in her dining room and that her days would be filled with obligations to dinners and card games with “the family.”
Babes in Toyland
Holidays The original cinematic version of Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough’s 1903 operetta finds Laurel and Hardy inserting themselves into the Mother Goose–inspired storyline. This film retains six of the numbers from the operetta, including “Toyland” and the instrumental “March of the Toys.”
Auntie Mame
Holidays “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.” Rosalind Russell was nominated for her fourth Oscar when she duplicated her stage role as everyone's favorite eccentric aunt, a woman who abhors the emptiness of middle-class values and parlays traditional femininity into a comic romp.
The Circle
Silent Tuesdays At the end of the nineteenth century, Lady Catherine (Joan Crawford), who is to be married to Lord Cheney (Derek Glynne), is instead persuaded to elope with Hugh Portenous (Frank Braidwood), the best man. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
It's a Wonderful Life—Meet & Greet and Film Screening
Holidays | Best Picture Nominees of 1946 | Special Guests In honor of the film's 75th anniversary, actors Karolyn Grimes and Jimmy Hawkins will be onsite for a meet & greet and will introduce the film.
Lost World, The
Sweet Creations Gingerbread Display
This annual display features dozens of cleverly designed and deliciously decorated gingerbread houses and objects.
Tabletop Tree Display & Silent Auction
Trees decorated by local businesses are on display throughout the historic mansion.
Wreath Display & Silent Auction
Uniquely decorated wreaths on view in the Potter Peristyle.
Holiday Evening Hours
Join us for extended evening hours to enjoy holiday decor in the historic mansion, bid on gingerbread creations and tabletop trees, and hear holiday music performed live on the Aeolian pipe organ.
Our Community, Our Stories: To Survive on This Shore
In observance of Transgender Awareness Week, the George Eastman Museum and Trillium Health offer a free evening of art, conversation, and community centered on the challenges and triumphs of trans people in Rochester and across the world.
The Yearling
Best Picture Nominees of 1946 Starring Gregory Peck and set in the wilds of southern Florida following the Civil War, Starring Gregory Peck and set in the wilds of southern Florida following the Civil War,
The Prowler
Dalton Trumbo: Breaking the Blacklist While awaiting appeal to the charges of contempt of Congress (for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee), Dalton Trumbo completed this assignment,
Roman Holiday
Dalton Trumbo: Breaking the Blacklist Dalton Trumbo won an Academy Award, in absentia, for penning this timeless tale of a young princess who, tired of her publicity tour and duty to the crown, decides to play hooky for a day.
Scrooged
Holidays No holiday season is complete without a version of Charles Dickens’s timeless parable. Here, director Richard Donner updates the tale by transposing the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge into irascible television network executive Frank Cross (Bill Murray).
Henry V
Best Picture Nominees of 1946 Fascinating not just in its approach to Shakespeare’s original verse but also for its unique portrayal of the diversity of the English monarch, Laurence Olivier’s Henry V has the director-actor more athletic and heroic than ever.
Terror in a Texas Town
Dalton Trumbo: Breaking the Blacklist Dalton Trumbo rewrote the script in four days when the producers showed dissatisfaction with the script that the blacklisted Mitchell Lindemann and John Howard Lawson (whom Trumbo had recommended for the job) turned in.
