Capri Theatre
1045 East Fairview Avenue,
Montgomery,
AL
36106
1045 East Fairview Avenue,
Montgomery,
AL
36106
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The Clover Theatre was built in 1941, and was Montgomery’s first neighborhood movie house. It was operated through the 1940’s by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Wilber-Kincey.
Renovated in 1963, it reopened as the Capri Theatre. Since 1983, the Capri Community Film Society has operated the theater under the management of Director, and Cinema Treasures contributor, Martin McCaffery.
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Ross Melnick
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Great movie house!!! Currently plays independent films!!! Great southern charm!!!
Here is a black and white photo of the Capri Theatre.
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This is a 2007 night view of the Capri Theater.
Boxoffice Magazine of July 19, 1941, said the Clover Theatre had opened on Friday (the 19th was a Saturday that year.) According to Boxoffice, the theater had “…ultra-modern appointments and decorations.” The seating capacity was given as 700. The first manager was Don W. Randolph, formerly of Asheville, N.C., and the projectionist was B.P. Bopkins.
An item about the Clover Theatre, as yet unnamed, appeared in Boxoffice, August 17, 1940. The item gave the location as Cloverdale Road and Fairview Avenue. The new house for R.B. Wilby’s Alabama Theatres was designed by Montgomery architect William J. Okel. Okel designed a few other theaters but I’ve not yet tracked them down.
Not much of a picture on the night view.
The Capri Community Film Society which has been leasing the theater on a month-to-month basis for twenty-seven years has finally been able to buy the theater, giving it a more stable future: View link