Roxy Theatre
2150 Plainfield Avenue NE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49505
2150 Plainfield Avenue NE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49505
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Opened as the Fairmont Theatre on September 21, 1929 with Laura La Plante in “Showboat”. It was renamed the Roxy Theatre on May 31, 1936 screening Errol Flynn in “Captain Blood” & Frank McHugh in “Freshman Love”. Closed as a movie theatre on April 23, 1946 with Monty Woolley in “Irish Eyes Are Smiling” & Henry Fonda in “Wild Geese Calling”. It had been purchased by the Blessed Sacrament Parish. Today it houses office space.
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Listed as the Roxy Theatre in Film Daily Yearbook’s;1941 and 1943 editions. Seating capacity is given as 450.
This opened as the Fairmount theatre on September 21st, 1929 and reopened as Roxy on May 31st, 1936. Grand opening ads posted.
Closed 1946.
Blessed Sacrament Parish purchased the Roxy Theater building on April 1, 1946. The theater operated to the end of its lease closing on April 23, 1946 with “Irish Eyes are Smiling” and “Wild Geese Calling.”