Guild Theatre
782 E. McMillan Street,
Cincinnati,
OH
45206
782 E. McMillan Street,
Cincinnati,
OH
45206
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One of a few theatres in the formerly vibrant Peebles Corner business district in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati. Opened as the Eden Theatre in 1939.
Later known as the Guild Theatre, it was long known as an art theatre, and is most famous for being the venue where Russ Meyer’s “Vixen” had opened before being shut down by the city vice squad, leading to a long and very expensive lawsuit filed by Meyer against the city.
When last spotted, the building was still standing and serving as a TV repair shop. An intriguing, abstract painting (I suppose meant to suppose artistic film expression) still adorns its visible side wall, albeit in extremely degraded condition.
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Marc Edward Heuck
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I think there was an attempt to reopen it as the Eden in the early/mid-70s, some kind of joint attempt between the Alpha Fine Arts and one of the local theatre bookers/owners. It didn’t last long.
Is this the theater? It would be around the 700 block of E. McMillan street.
http://tinyurl.com/lkmq2m
I don’t know. Here is the matching map.
This is from the Lima (OH) News on September 30, 1969:
CINCINNATI (AP)-Obscenity charges against a movie operator for showing the film “Vixen” were returned to Hamilton county common pleas court today from U. S. District court. Judge Davis S. Porter said there were no federal or civil rights questions in the case and refused to hear it. But he ordered the film returned to the defendant, Malibu, Inc. operators of the Guild Theater in Cincinnati. The charges were brought by Charles Keating, founder of the Citizens for Decent Literature.
That’s interesting but doesn’t give the address.
Sound Electronics is at 782 E. McMillan:
http://tinyurl.com/lzqam8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyum/3871784609/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyum/3871782119/
The earliest mentions of the Guild Theatre in Boxoffice are in 1949, when it was already running foreign films. The most recent mention of the Eden Theatre I’ve found is from March 30, 1946.
The November 16, 1935, issue of Boxoffice reported that Willis Vance would open a new theater at Peebles Corner to be called the Eden. It was to have about 300 seats.
Eden Theater address was 782 East McMillian Avenue as of the 1944 Cincinnati,Ohio City Directory.Charles F.Clarke was its manager.
Eden Theater was build in 1939.