Cameo Theatre
1026 Noble Street,
Anniston,
AL
36201
1026 Noble Street,
Anniston,
AL
36201
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One of six theatres that at one time lined Noble Street, this opened in a conversion of retail premises as the Cameo Theatre February 26, 1939, when it screened “You’re Only Young Once” starring Lewis Stone. Seating was provided for 936.
The Cameo Theatre was operated by Alabama Theatres. The Cameo Theatre closed in 1955. It was located adjacent to the Rialto Theatre which has its own page on Cinema Treasures.
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Here is a photo from September 2006 of the building which once was the theatre. This is a photo of the building when it was the Cameo Theatre.
It’s still the same gift shop that was seen in the 2006 photo.
February 26th, 1939 grand opening ad in photo section
Two theaters are conflated on this page. The confusion arises from an address shift. Current 1026 Noble, the Cameo’s building, is one door north of the earlier 1026 Noble, where the Theatorium/Theato/Rialto was located. The modern address of the Theato would be 1024 Noble. The Cameo was apparently a new house opened in former retail space in 1939 and had no akas.
A photo of the Theato can be seen on this Facebook page from the Anniston Photo Archives. The original name was Theatorium, which is how it was listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. It had been renamed Theato by March, 1919. The text on the photo page says the Theato closed in the early 1930s and reopened as the Rialto in 1933 (a comment by 50sSNIPES on our Anniston Roxy page says the Rialto opened on Christmas Day, 1933.) I don’t have access to FDYs at the moment, but I believe that the Rialto had closed by the time the Cameo was opened next door in 1939.