Miller Theatre
E. State Street and N. Main Street,
Atkinson,
NE
68713
E. State Street and N. Main Street,
Atkinson,
NE
68713
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Arthur G. “Tidy” Miller was a veteran film exhibitor and former postmaster in Atkinson. The Miller Theatre was his third movie theatre location in downtown Atkinson and the second to use the name of Miller. He opened this location after World War II on May 12, 1946 in the former Seger Brothers garage. The opening film was the Edward G. Robinson and Agnes Moorehead film, “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes".
The theatre celebrated its 20th Anniversary in May of 1966 continuing in that location. Though Miller died in October of 1975 just shy of the still-operating theatre’s 30th Anniversary, it was still in time for Tidy’s 60th anniversary in motion picture exhibition in Atkinson.
Miller had previously launched the Lyric Theatre on February 9, 1926 in the former Memorial Hall with Lon Chaney in “The Unholy Three". It had replaced the original Miller Theatre which had opened in 1914/1915 as Theatre then the Miller Theatre. It proved too small as Atkinson loved silent films. The Lyric Theatre (which has its own page on Cinema Treasures) was converted for use by the American Legion and the original Miller Theatre was converted for retail use.
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