Ellet Theatre
666 Canton Road,
Akron,
OH
44312
666 Canton Road,
Akron,
OH
44312
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The Ellet Theatre was opened April 12, 1941 with Louis Hayward in “The Son of Monte Cristo” & W.C. Fields in “The Bank Dick”. It was a neighborhood theatre similar to the Linda Theatre, which is still operating, only three to four miles away in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood.
I remember, very vividly, seeing the Beatles' movies “A Hard Days Night” and “Help”, the Dave Clarke Five movie “Catch ‘em If You Can”, and an early Vincent Price horror movie at the Ellet Theatre. The Ellet Theatre was closed on December 12, 1976 with Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
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This is from the Newport (RI) Daily News dated 2/4/50, which incidentally was the day my parents were married. Ingrid Bergman was unpopular because she had left her husband and was having a baby with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.
AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 4â€"The management of the Ellet Theatre in Akron decided to cancel Ingrid Bergman’s latest film, “Under Capricorn†because of possible public reaction to the birth of her baby.
Here is a 1971 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cfpfqg
Growing up in Akron, the Ellet was the neighborhood theatre for my mother and her siblings. She recalls seeing many films there, including “A Hard Day’s Night”, for which she and her friends waited in the line that snaked all the way around the block.
Ken, the tidbit about Ingrid Bergman is quite entertaining.
I think the baby turned out to be Isabella Rossellini, from Blue Velvet. Remember that scene with Dennis Hopper?
I believe it was Isabella.
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet = creepy.
The April 11, 1941, issue of The Film Daily said that Louis Israel’s Ellet Theatre in Akron was to open soon. The new house was being outfitted by National Theatre Supply, Cleveland.
This opened on April 12th, 1941. Grand opening ad in photo section.
Closed on December 12, 1976 with “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”. It originally closed for the holidays but appears that it never reopened afterward.