Stop by Museum of Riverside’s Heritage House on Friday from 8 to 10:30 p.m. for a viewing of the 1934 classic “It Happened One Night.”
This year’s Movies on the Lawn events will be cinematic expansions of the themes explored in the Heritage House exhibitions “First Comes Love” (on view through June 29) and “Quackery and Cures” (opening fall 2025). These cozy viewings of classic Hollywood films on the Heritage House lawn are free and will take place again on June 20. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the screening begins at 8:30 p.m. Concessions are available at the Riverside Museum Associates’ Snack Shack (CASH ONLY). Limited on site and street parking is available.
Considered one of the original rom-coms, “It Happened One Night,” directed by Frank Capra, follows the journey of a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) who escapes her father’s control and falls in love with a reporter (Clark Gable). Though it’s set in the 1930s, you’ll notice parallels to the Victorian changes explored in the Heritage House exhibition “First Comes Love: Courtship in the Victorian Era.” Audiences will see how the ideas of love and marriage evolved from the structures of the Victorian era into the more liberated romantic stories of the 20th century. It’s a celebration of how the freedom to choose love continues to shape relationships today.
