Roosevelt Theatre
770 Arthur Godfrey Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33140
770 Arthur Godfrey Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33140
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The Roosevelt Theatre was opened in December 1949. A rather small theatre, it usually played what first run films it could get. All I can recall from the 1950’s is that it has a lot of mirrors in the lobby. At times this theatre converted to live stage plays, but then switched back to movies. I saw the Russian “War and Peace” there.
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During its Cinerama stage this was operated by the Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.
I will always remember going to the Roosevelt Theater in Miami Beach with my family to see John Wayne in The Alamo, 1961. We were given a ride on the way over in a convertible with the top down.
Good to find lots of info here on this cinema. Saw it on a visit to Miami and would really like to see if there’s support to re-open the place from the local community. It could be great local resource in a much different guise from it’s last incarnation.
David, you would be competing with an 18 screen state-of-art multiplex on Lincoln Road just south of here.
Well, I’d hope to it could show whatever you wouldn’t get there!
@davidL A Performing arts company i work for is interested in this old Roosevelt theater in turning it into a performing arts venue. if your interested on helping us restore this ancient email me @
Grand opening described in this 1950 trade article: boxoffice
The “novel” proscenium shown in the 1950 article must have posed a bit of a problem when CinemaScope arrived. I wonder how they solved it?
In its early days it was mostly an art house and Cinemascope was not an issue but by 1956 this was South Florida’s first Cinerama house that proscenium obsolete.
I found this from a 2012 piece in the SunPost. A few photos of the interior as it sits today.
http://www.sunpostweekly.com/2012/02/02/history-time-capsule-the-roosevelt-theater/