Paramount Theatre
1114 Main Street,
Kansas City,
MO
64105
1114 Main Street,
Kansas City,
MO
64105
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Gloria Swanson’s first and only movie in the Natural Color process played its world premiere engagement here in 1952: boxoffice
Here’s a full page of photos on the 1939 world premiere of Paramount’s Bob Burns comedy, “I’m From Missouri,” at the Newman Theatre: boxofficemagazine
Thanks for posting the photo Don.
From the 1920s a postcard view of $2,000,000.00 Newman Theatre in Kansas City.
“3 For Bedroom C” Warner Brothers, released June 26, 1952.
Here is a Boxoffice ad featuring the Paramount in June 1952. I have never heard of this film.
http://tinyurl.com/ycu9zml
Vintage shot from the J.K. Redmond archives -
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Just curious, shouldn’t this theatre be listed as the Towne Theatre aka Newman, Paramount. The Toene was the last name the theatre had before its closing. Don’t we usually list them with the last known name and then aka’s?
Here is a 1925 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/l8h67u
1955 photo of the Paramount Theatre.
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The Newman Theatre witnessed the world premiere in 1920 of cartoons drawn by young starving artist named…..Walt Disney. The then 18/19-year old Disney drew advertising cartoons for that theatre’s “Newman’s Laugh-O-Grams”.
Interesting. Thanks.
Crime in 1929:
http://tinyurl.com/59trg5
When it was the Newman Theater.
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Postcard from around 1948.
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This theater is listed as opening in June of 1919. In 1918 an Austin theater organ Opus 828 Size 4/42 was installed at a cost of $20,000.
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If you remove the “-18” from the address the Google map will work. I don’t know why there is a problem since Yahoo Maps and MapQuest both work with the “-18” in the address. The address came from the Kansas City library.
In the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook, the Newman is listed with seating for 1900.
This theater opened as the Newman Theater with approximately 2000 seats. Around 1947 it became the Paramount Theater. In 1969 this theater was renovated and opened as the Towne Theater with 4 screens. Its address was:
1114-18 Main St
Kansas City, MO 64105
The Paramount Theatre AKA Newman opened in 1919 and the architect was Alexander Drake. The address for the Paramount was 114-18 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. The theatre was demolished in 1972 and is the current site of the City Center Square.
I only had the privilege of attending the Paramount once…and that was a “Life Altering” experience for me seeing, at the tender age of 15, “Damn Yankees” with Gwen Verdon in October, 1958! WOW! Also the theatre was spectacular inside…from the center dome hung a hugh chandelier 20 feet long, 12 feet wide and had 220 candles! There were hand painted murals and a decorated dome and the theatre walls had cherubs and Greek figures! It was a rather large theatre and I’m guessing that it could seat approximately 2200! Sometimes it takes only “One Visit” to make a memory last a lifetime!
My best…William Hamilton!