A romantic comedy with a kind of ironic overlay, this film stars Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, and Rudy Vallee. They are supported by the Preston Sturges “stock company” of zany character actors, who do their best to be disruptive—and often succeed. The screening is followed by a discussion. Admission and refreshments are free.
Acclaimed bluegrass band Balsam Range, joined by the comedic bluegrass band the Cleverlys, performs at the Imperial Theatre! For tickets, call 706-722-8341 or visit www.imperialtheatre.com.
This bold exhibition includes more than fifty-five paintings by fourteen leading photorealist artists—A. D. Cook, Randy Ford, Allan Gorman, Marc G. Jones, Cheryl Kelley, Richard Lewis, Lory Lockwood, Bob Petillo, Kris Preslan, Joseph Santos, Ken Scaglia, John E. Schaeffer, Guenevere Schwien, and Harold Zabady—all of whom specialize in automobile and motorcycle imagery. Through their work, they share their enthusiasm for…
Since 1900 much of American painting and sculpture has been represented by a series of revolts against tradition, especially academic tradition. At the dawn of the twentieth century, realism became the new direction for American artists. Later those realists gave way to modernists, many of them arriving from Europe. The impact of the 1913 Armory Show, where Americans saw Marcel…
Directed by Preston Sturges, this biographical film is based on the book Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller, and tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a nineteenth-century Boston dentist who discovered the use of ether for general anesthesia. Filmed in 1942 but not released until two years later, it marked the end of a remarkable string of critical…
