Gaiety Theatre

It simply isn’t true that the Gaiety had to rely on double bills and films from smaller studios. It remained a first run cinema to the end and in its last six months it played a highly successful eight week run of Room at the Top, a number of other circuit releases like Auntie Mame and The Black Orchid and finished up with three weeks of Look Back in Anger followed by three weeks of Al Capone (a surprise UK box office success). These were all exclusive Manchester premiere runs. I suspect that it closed because its owners received an offer for the site that they couldn’t refuse.