Grandview Cinema II
1625 Dunn Road,
Florissant,
MO
63031
1625 Dunn Road,
Florissant,
MO
63031
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The Grandview was the first shopping center theater built in the St. Louis area. It opened as the General Cinema Grandview Plaza as a single screen theater in a small strip shopping center in 1962.
In the early 70s, it was twined and became the Grandview Cinema II. The regional offices for General Cinema were also located in the Grandview Cinema.
After 25 years in operation, it was closed in 1987 and later demolished.
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Small photo of the Grandview Cinema.
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Wrong link, here is the correct one.
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Grandview opened October 31, 1962 with a subrun of “The Miracle Worker.”
The conversion to a two-screen operation took place in 1976.
Status should be closed/demolished per the description.
Only movie I recall seeing here was “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”
I remember going here with my first real girlfriend. The place had a huge screen, comfortable seating and an actual smoking section within the main auditorium. Before it opened the closest movie theater was in Ferguson. I remember seeing “Judgement at Nuremburg” w/Spencer Tracy & no one liked it by me…
Since this theater became a twin after opening as a single screen, shouldn’t the number of screens be 2 rather than 1? Just wondering…
I infamously dragged my mother and brother here for the 1978 premiere of “The Swarm!” It was the day before our family was to head off on an RV trip to Colorado. I remember reading the abysmal reviews in the newspaper as we were on our trip!
@Jmiller: “The Swarm” was one of the most hyped pictures I can remember (there were full page color ads in the Globe-Democrat about 1-2 months before it opened saying “The Swarm is coming!”…but like you said, once it opened, it turned out to be an epic flop!!! Right up there with Heaven’s Gate as one of the worst big-budget movie disasters of all time!