Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) resides in the Pantheon of great French filmmakers, playwrights, and auteurs. So perfect to name a cinema after him, as with Jean Cocteau or Jean Renoir.
FDR, president at the time, suffered the effects of infantile paralysis (polio). The first polio vaccine was available in the United States in 1955. Because of its widespread use, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
This is also a good guide to many (but not all) of the movie theatres in operation in RI that year. Missing are theatres in Johnston, East Providence, and a couple of other places.
“Working Girls” and “Eat the Peach” were both 1986 films.
“Stop that Man” was a 1928 film release.
“Over the Hill to the Poorhouse” was a 1920 film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
In the 1980s, before the current Film Forum on West Houston.
In 1938.
In 1957.
Add previous name: Pix Theatre.
1948, actually.
The film on the marquee is the 1952 “Son of Ali Baba” with Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie.
Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) resides in the Pantheon of great French filmmakers, playwrights, and auteurs. So perfect to name a cinema after him, as with Jean Cocteau or Jean Renoir.
Remade in 1962 by Yves Robert as “The War of the Buttons.” There are at least a couple of other versions as well.
“The Postmaster’s Daughter” = “Nostalgie” (1938), directed by Viktor Tourjansky.
FDR, president at the time, suffered the effects of infantile paralysis (polio). The first polio vaccine was available in the United States in 1955. Because of its widespread use, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
This is also a good guide to many (but not all) of the movie theatres in operation in RI that year. Missing are theatres in Johnston, East Providence, and a couple of other places.
“Night and Day,” 1946.
“Site of old Cycledrome.”
“Dodge City.”
I believe this film had a showing in the White House’s screening room when George W. Bush was president.
A painted artistic memorial can be see in the parking lot where the Star Theatre used to stand. See photo section.
The film on the marquee was “No Hands on the Clock” with Chester Morris, 1941.
Film from 1937.
Directed by the Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak.
In the USA this was also called “Amore, patria e dovere” when it was run in ethnic Italian-language houses.
The film auditorium was most likely on the upper floor.
A neorealist Italian film paired with a western. Why not?