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Edward Hopper, a native New Yorker, was an avid theater-goer. These are some ticket stubs he saved between 1925 and 1936, with the names of the plays written on the back: Hamlet with Gielgud, Strange Interlude, Green Pastures, The Doctor's Dilemma, and six others. And the priciest was for Gielgud—$3.30 to sit in the orchestra.
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Central Theater
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The first Trans-Lux cinema opened at Madison Avenue and W. 58th Street in NYC on March 14th, 1931.
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Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)
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Ramova Marquee Lighting, January 26, 2024
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The Cameo Theatre at 1445 Washington Avenue opened its doors on November 4th, 1938. It is located in the Española Way Historic District, which in 1986 became the first historic district to ever be designated in Miami Beach. The theater was built in 1938 by New York theater magnate Herman Weingarten, as part of a $1,250,000 chain of 12 theaters in Miami and Miami Beach. Weingarten recognized the immense potential of the blooming area, proclaiming “This section is still in its infancy and I believe it to be the coming section of the country.”
The Art Deco style building was designed by architect Robert E. Collins and had a seating capacity of 1,160 with a balcony, a smoking loge, and an orchestra.
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Rialto Theater, opening of Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942)
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Marilyn Monroe at Morosco Theater to watch "Cat On Hot Tin Roof", March 1955. Photo by Ed Feingersh.
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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in Romeo and Juliet, which ran for a month at the 51st St. Theater (later the Mark Hellinger; now a church) in 1940. Dame May Whitty played Juliet's nurse, Edmond O'Brien was Mercutio, and Cornell Wilde was Tybalt. Olivier produced, directed, and (lavishly) designed the production in addition to starring in it. The critics were not kind: "Much scenery: no play," said Brooks Atkinson in the Times. Time magazine said that Leigh “looked like a poem but had no sense of poetry.” Leigh and Olivier were several years into a passionate romance that would, a few months after the play, result in marriage.
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RKO Lincoln Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey
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New Orleans’ Vitascope Hall opened on July 26, 1896. #OnThisDay It is widely recognized as the world's first permanent, for-profit movie theater.
Image from 1916 The Motion Picture News shows William “Pop” Rock, the New York businessman who opened the theater with business partner Walter Wainwright (far right).
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A woman crying in a movie theater
Lisa Larsen, Life, Mar 1, 1954
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