You may remember this film as a Howard Hughes production filmed in Utah, near the atomic testing area. Most of the principals died of cancer years later, including Wayne and Hayward, Agnes Moorehead and director Dick Powell.
Here’s a coincidence – there were theaters named Esquire and Telenews in Oakland, but on different streets. The same two theaters were adjacent in San Francisco, as per this photo from the SF Public Library website:
From the SF Public Library website:
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You may remember this film as a Howard Hughes production filmed in Utah, near the atomic testing area. Most of the principals died of cancer years later, including Wayne and Hayward, Agnes Moorehead and director Dick Powell.
From the Santa Monica Library website:
http://www.smpl.org/archive/4831/IMG0029.JPG
From the Santa Monica Library website:
http://www.smpl.org/archive/2105/IMG0048.JPG
From the Santa Monica Library website:
http://www.smpl.org/archive/0259/IMG0053.JPG
Does anyone know if the Uptown in San Francisco is listed under another name?
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Where is the UA Theater listed? I checked the UAs and didn’t see one in San Francisco:
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This is also the Parkside, per the SF Public Library, but it’s hard to imagine that this is the same building:
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Such a distinguished theater to be reduced to showing Elvis movies:
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Is the Palace Theater on Powell Street listed here under a different name?
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From the SF Public Library website:
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From the SF Public Library website:
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From the SF Public Library website:
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From the SF Public Library website:
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From the SF Public Library website:
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From the SF Public Library website:
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Does anyone know if the Crown Theater in San Francisco is listed here under another name?
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Here’s a coincidence – there were theaters named Esquire and Telenews in Oakland, but on different streets. The same two theaters were adjacent in San Francisco, as per this photo from the SF Public Library website:
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There was also a Telenews Theater in San Francisco, as seen in this photo from the SF Public Library website:
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