Grand Theatre
Vine Street and Opera Place,
Cincinnati,
OH
45202
Vine Street and Opera Place,
Cincinnati,
OH
45202
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The Grand was located in downtown Cincinnati. Not a fancy house but it ran some great first run films. I saw “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Graduate” there and even some less than greats such as “Myra Breckenridge”, “Barbarella” and “Putney Swoop”. The Grand was demolished in 1980.
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when i was 6 years old i saw my first film there snow white
The Grand Theatre was built on the original site of the Grand Opera House. It was operated by RKO for 32 years and is listed as the RKO Grand Theatre in the Film Daily Yearbook,1950.
Opened in 1925 and closed in 1975.
This is undated, but appears to be from the early twenties:
http://tinyurl.com/mt69d
The architect for the 1940 RKO Grand Theater was Drew Eberson, son of the famous John Eberson.
The Grand theater was three seperate structures. The Grand on this page is the RKO GRAND moviehouse from 1939 lasting until it was torndown in 1980.
The original Grand Th. (legit) burned on the same day that Queen Victoria died, so the Cincinnati papers shared the front page with Queen Vicky and the Grand Th. fire.
Also Playing for you Ohio moviegoers at the GRAND was Sidney Poitier in UPTOWN,SATURDAY NIGHT. They even ran a late show on this movie at 11:40 pm. Rated PG. This was part of the MID STATES CINEMAS inAugust 9 1974.
No photos of the Grand? How is this possible? It wasn’t as rococo and fabulous as the Albee — few things were — but at a time when downtown theaters only showed Hollywood films, I had to lie about my age to get into the Grand because in 1961 they showed “La Dolce Vita,” and in 1962 they showed “Lolita” and later “Rocco and His Brothers.”