Eastman Entertains In 1972, college theater student Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) celebrates the debut of his new play. An elderly woman Richard does not know approaches him and places a pocket watch in his hand pleading, “Come back to me.” Eight years later, Richard is a successful playwright living in Chicago.

Member Movie Night | Brown/Garbo Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo) is the wife of Czarist official Karenin (Basil Rathbone) in nineteenth-century Russia. While she attempts to dissuade her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, she becomes infatuated with an officer in the military, Count Vronsky (Fredric March).

Brown/ Garbo Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo), who is married to a much older man (Henry Stephenson). After some time, and only after learning it will save Poland, Walewska reluctantly accepts Napoleon’s offer.

Céline Ruivo will give a talk as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. Open to all NPS passholders.

Jan-Christopher Horak will deliver the James Card Memorial Lecture as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. Open to all NPS passholders.

Andreas Benz will perform selections from the nitrate film era, including silent film theme songs from the 1920s, as well as music from the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Open to all museum visitors and Nitrate Picture Show passholders.

Andreas Benz will perform selections from the nitrate film era, including silent film theme songs from the 1920s, as well as music from the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Open to all museum visitors and Nitrate Picture Show passholders.

Nitrate Picture Show Portrait of Jennie would be the last film made by legendary producer David O. Selznick in Hollywood. Selznick, a romantic by nature, was drawn to the story of an uninspired artist finding his muse in the guise of a young girl he meets in Central Park. The film is sensitively directed, and the actors give wonderfully restrained performances.