Liberty Theatre
420 Saint Charles Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70130
420 Saint Charles Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70130
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The Liberty Theatre opened around 1920, next to the St. Charles Theatre, on St. Charles Avenue. It, like the St. Charles Theatre, was part of the Saenger Amusement chain.
The Liberty Theatre lasted into the mid-1950’s before closing, and was demolished a few years later (followed not long afterward by the St. Charles Theatre, which ended its days as a nightclub). The Pan-American Life Insurance Building was later constructed on the site of the two theaters.
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Library of Congress website has a photo and lists the location as Saint Charles Street.
The 1945 Film Daily Yearbook shows the Liberty seating 1250.
Here is a 1935 photo:
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A Moller theater organ was installed in the Liberty Theater in 1922.
Was this theater also known as the RKO LIberty? This is a photo of an RKO Liberty Theater in New Orleans. No address is given so I don’t know if its this theater.
The Mike Rivest website lists only one Liberty Theater in New Orleans, locating it at 420 St. Charles and further indicates that the operator was RKO from 1950-55. “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman” was re-released by RKO in 1950 (originally released in 1946).
CinemaTour, though, puts this theater on Canal Street (no number indicated). The picture matches, but I doubt that it was on Canal.
Thanks. I also think that the photo of the RKO LIberty Theater is the same theater listed here. Saenger Amusements gives the location of the Liberty theater as Saint Charles Avenue, located to the left of the St Charles Theater.
Actually, there’s another picture of the Liberty on the same site that you cited earlier;
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where, if one looks to the right, a set of framed exhibition photos for the film showing at the theater next door and what appears to be a neon letter ’S' on top of what is undoubtedly a marquee can be seen. Considering also the streetcar tracks in front of the theaters, I don’t think there’s any doubt about the location being St. Charles Street circa 1950.
The theater next door and to the right in that photo must be the St Charles Theater. This theater should have an aka name of RKO Liberty.
Should have an AKA Rko Liberty. RKO took over operations of the Liberty in the-1940’s. I would think that it should be listeed as the RKO Liberty with an AKA Liberty since RKO Liberty was the name until it closed in 1955.