MFAH Film – Movies Houstonians Love: From Here to Eternity (Introduced by Richard D Kinder)

Often surprising and always intriguing, Movies Houstonians Love has become one of the Museum’s most popular film series.

Local luminaries from different fields—the arts, politics, sports, education, restaurants, medicine, and beyond—share anecdotes from their personal moviegoing histories, and then take a seat to enjoy the incomparable experience of watching the film on the big screen, with an audience.

From Here to Eternity
Introduced by Richard D. Kinder, executive chairman, Kinder Morgan; chairman, MFAH Board of Trustees.

Director Fred Zinnemann
Released 1953
Country USA
Running Time 118 minutes
Format 35mm, B/W
Website http://www.filmsite.org/from.html

From Here to Eternity tells the powerful story of American military men and women stationed in Hawaii during the months before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra—in an Oscar-winning performance—play characters trying to find happiness in a world that has, so far, offered only disappointment.

Framed by two love stories, this film was one of the first to show the harshness of military life, including bullying. The passionate kiss on the beach between Kerr and Lancaster is an indelible moment in American movie history.

About the Speaker
Richard D. Kinder is executive chairman of Kinder Morgan, Inc., the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. He is also a member of the company’s Office of the Chairman. A co-founder of Kinder Morgan, which was formed in 1997, Kinder is responsible for developing and executing the company’s vision and strategy and allocating capital to Kinder Morgan business units in a disciplined manner. Under his leadership, Kinder Morgan has grown from a small company with 175 employees and an enterprise value of $325 million to a corporation with over 12,000 employees. He receives a salary of $1 a year and owns approximately 11 percent of Kinder Morgan.

Kinder Morgan is one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies in America and was previously recognized as the top company among all industries for “Quality of Management.” Kinder is a past recipient of Morningstar’s CEO of the Year award. Kinder received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri and served in Vietnam as a captain in the U.S. Army.

He has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards and is a life trustee and current chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.