Majestic Theatre

Movies which played at the Majestic Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/66 to 12/31/68. Research from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date given is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/66 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 01/26/66 Our Man Flint 02/16/66 The Oscar 03/02/66 Judith 03/16/66 Made in Paris 03/30/66 The Flight of the Phoenix 04/20/66 Ride Beyond Vengeance 05/04/66 A Man Could Get Killed 05/18/66 The Naked Prey 05/25/66 The Last of the Secret Agents 06/01/66 Hold On! 06/08/66 The Dirty Game 06/15/66 Stagecoach 07/20/66 Modesty Blaise 08/03/66 Assault on a Queen 08/24/66 How to Steal a Million 09/21/66 Ambush Bay 09/28/66 One Spy Too Many 10/05/66 Mister Buddwing 10/12/66 Alvarez Kelly 10/26/66 Texas Across the River 11/23/66 Spinout 12/07/66 Rage 12/21/66 Murderers Row 01/25/67 The Reluctant Astronaut (World Premiere) 02/08/67 The Sound of Music (pop prices) 03/22/67 Doctor, You’ve Got to Be Kidding! 04/12/67 Deadlier Than the Male 04/19/67 One Million Years, B. C. 05/03/67 The Deadly Affair 05/10/67 The Great Escape 05/24/67 The Busy Body 05/31/67 Thoroughly Modern Millie 09/20/67 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 09/27/67 The Flim-Flam Man 10/04/67 Point Blank 11/15/67 The Long Duel 11/22/67 Rosie! 12/06/67 Jack of Diamonds 12/13/67 Paris Blues 12/20/67 The President’s Analyst 01/17/68 The Penthouse 01/24/68 The Incident 01/31/68 Bonnie and Clyde 02/21/68 The Ballad of Josie 02/28/68 P. J. 03/13/68 In Cold Blood 04/10/68 Planet of the Apes 05/22/68 The Shakiest Gun in the West 05/29/68 Yours, Mine, and Ours 06/19/68 Bandolero 07/24/68 Dark of the Sun 08/07/68 Anzio 08/21/68 The Hell with Heroes 08/28/68 Salt and Pepper 09/11/68 Hammerhead 09/18/68 Deadfall 09/25/68 A Lovely Way to Die 10/02/68 Pretty Poison 10/09/68 Duffy 10/23/68 If He Hollers, Let Him Go 11/06/68 A Twist of Sand 11/13/68 Killers 3 11/20/68 Coogan’s Bluff 12/18/68 Hellfighters

Three Stooges Texas Connection

The Three Stooges performed here during the vaudeville area which would have been during 1921-1934 for them. At the time they were working with Ted Healy and the act was called “Ted Healy and his Stooges”. Healy was the star and was the most successful vaudeville performer in the country making $9000 a week in the 20s. Healy started out as a cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle and met vaudeville performers and entered Show Business. You can hear a radio interview with Moe Howard talking about when they performed at all the Majestic Theaters in Texas and did a joke about Baylor University and the people of Texas where planning on throwing eggs at them! Its on the DVD Stooges Men Behind the Mayhem

http://www.amazon.com/Stooges-The-Men-Behind-Mayhem/dp/B00080ZGZQ

http://ladailymirror.com/2013/05/31/the-death-of-ted-healy-part-4/

Which Majestic are we looking at here? I found these pictures of the demolition… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/sets/72157621832310328/

the interior on each is different

The Houston Majestic was the first fully atmospheric theater, however, John Eberson’s first partial or prototype atmospheric theatre was the Indiana Theatre in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Indiana Theatre’s construction started before the Wichita Orpheum and was completed 8 months before the Orpheum. Excavation for the Orpheum didn’t begin until July 28, 1921, whereas construction of the Indiana Theatre had began in February 1921, if not earlier. The Indiana opened January 28, 1922 while the Orpheum followed later that year on September 4. Many elements that were first used by Eberson in the Indiana were copied verbatim in his later theaters.

Grand opening ad Majestic theatre opening Sun, Jan 28, 1923 – Page 37 · The Houston Post (Houston, Texas) · Newspapers.com