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Soon the company opened vaudeville houses and movie palaces. Loew's theaters were found in cities throughout the United States, but primarily in East Coast and Midwest states. To provide films for his theaters, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924, by merging the earlier firms Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer ...
In 1968–69 the theater was known as the Cleveland Grande. In the early 1980s, it briefly re-opened as the New Hippodrome Theatre showing movies. [8] [9] Following the fire which damaged the Agora Ballroom on East 24th Street, club owner Henry LoConti Sr. decided to move to the 5000 Euclid Avenue location.
Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia), or The Met, a theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Metropolitan Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) or Agora Theatre and Ballroom; Metropolitan Theatre (Morgantown, West Virginia) Metropolitan Theatres, a southern California movie theater chain; Wang Theatre, formerly the Metropolitan Theatre, in Boston ...
The Randall Park 12 in Cleveland, Ohio; Northline 12 in Houston, Texas; and Greenbriar 12 in Atlanta, Georgia — were all closed by AMC due to lack of profitability. The Magic Theatres Cap Center 12 in Largo, Maryland is still open and operated by AMC Theatres. The Cap Center 12 was the first multiplex opened that was not a partnership with ...
AMC Theatres – as of July 2012 AMC divested of its Canadian operations, selling four to Cineplex, two to Empire Theatres which were later sold to Landmark Cinemas in 2013, closing two. Empire Theatres – closed on October 29, 2013, by selling most of their locations to Cineplex Entertainment and Landmark Cinemas and closing 3 others that ...
The Allen Theatre is one of the theaters in Playhouse Square, the performing arts center on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally designed as a silent movie theater by C. Howard Crane and opened its doors on April 1, 1921, with a capacity of more than 3,000 seats. [ 1 ]
The KeyBank State Theatre is a theater located at 1519 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. [1] It is one of the theaters that make up Playhouse Square.It was designed by the noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb and was built in 1921 by Marcus Loew to be the flagship of the Ohio branch of the Loew's Theatres company.
The theatre opened on November 6, 1922, with vaudeville star Elsie Janis headlining. The show was sold out, with several high-profile guests of the entertainment world attending, like Marcus Loew, a pioneer of the motion picture world and founder of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM) film studio, and Adolph Zukor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.