Cinema
224 First Street,
Kennett,
MO
63857
224 First Street,
Kennett,
MO
63857
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Opened as the Palace Theatre, it was later renamed Kennett Theatre, and was remodeled and updated when Kerasotes Theatres took over operations. It features Dolby sound, assistive listening devices and is handicap enables.
Single screen theatre seating 576, located on First Street at College Avenue in downtown Kennett. It is a single story building with a V shaped marquee and a vertical spelling out Cinema.
Closed in November 2010.
Contributed by
Chuck
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On the Kerasotes Theatres website the name of this theater is just Cinema.
I found a Palace Theater that was located on First Street in Kennett, MO. Anyone know if Palace was a previous name for this theater?
Here is a photo from 1995.
Chuck….In 1955 two theaters are listed for Kennett, MO. The Palace Theater and the Ritz Theater.
No address is given for the Ritz. The location given for the Palace Theater is Main Street.
This is a 2009 photo.
Another former Kerasotes small town theater being closed by AMC, as of November 28, 2010: http://www.dddnews.com/story/1682819.html
A local group is exploring the options for reopening this theater as a not-for-profit, mixed-use facility: http://www.dddnews.com/story/1709189.html. According to the article, the theater was once known as the Palace, which should be among the AKAs for this theater.
Here is a 1928 photo of this house when it was called the Palace, and here’s another view from the same year (click the images to embiggen, then see the “All Image Sizes” link to the right of the next page to fetch even bigger versions.)
In this photo of the Palace, there’s an ad for the 1929 movie “Hot Stuff” with Alice White. This film was a musical, so the Palace had been wired for sound by then.
Oddly, there is no theater name visible on the building in any of these photos. The name and location are derived from text written on the sheets to which the photos are mounted.