Star Theatre

N. Main Street,
Whitinsville, MA 01588

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Boondog
Boondog on September 21, 2013 at 10:51 am

Ron, I am a Historian for Northbridge/Whitinsvile and am desperately seeking images of these local cinemas. I can’t seem to find any info on the MGM Theatre Photograph and Report project online. Do you or anyone know where I can get images of the star and/or prospect theatre?

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on January 4, 2012 at 2:07 pm

The 1927 Film Daily Yearbook’s list of movie theaters has two for Whitensville MA – the Star Theatre with 400 seats, open 3 days per week; and the Prospect Theatre with 792 seats, open 4 days per week.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on January 4, 2012 at 2:02 pm

The Star Theatre in Whitensville was included in the MGM Theatre Photograph and Report project. It includes a photo of the theater taken in June 1941. It was a free-standing structure 2 stories high, with a center entrance and a boxy marquee above. The Report says that the Star was on North Main St., that it had been showing MGM product for 3 years, was built about 1930, was in Fair condition and had 344 seats, apparently all on one floor. A competing theater was the Prospect Th. in Whitensville. The patronage was described as “factory and mill help”. The 1941 population of Whitensville was 6,100.