GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt

Lions Gate Films; Directed by Peter Webber

95 minutes; 2003

This is the fictionalized account of how Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting might have come to be. Griet was a quiet peasant girl working in the home of Vermeer. Her life of drudgery was turned upside down when the painter noticed her milk-white skin set against a personality of stillness and striking poise and felt that she WAS ‘The Girl with a Peal Earring.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Get a local jewelry store to donate a pair of pearl earrings and have a drawing at your show.