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The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square is a prominent cinema building in the West End of London.Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1937, the building has been continually altered in response to developments in cinema technology, and was the first Dolby Cinema in the United Kingdom.
The square lies within an area bound by Lisle Street, to the north; Charing Cross Road, to the east; Orange Street, to the south; and Whitcomb Street, to the west.The park at the centre of the square is bound by Cranbourn Street, to the north; Leicester Street, to the east; Irving Street, to the south; and a section of road designated simply as Leicester Square, to the west.
Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
The Odeon Luxe West End is a two-screen cinema [1] on the south side of Leicester Square, London. It has historically been used for smaller film premieres and hosting the annual BFI London Film Festival. The site is on an adjacent side of the square to the much larger flagship Odeon Luxe Leicester Square.
Victim premiered at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square on 31 August 1961, [20] and its US premiere occurred on 5 February 1962 at two theaters in New York. [5] It was the only British entry in the Venice Film Festival in 1961, [ 18 ] where an Italian critic commented: "at last the British have stopped being hypocrites".
Former New Palladium, Shepherd's Bush, photographed in 2008 when it was an Australian-themed pub Former Capitol Cinema, Forest Hill Former Forum Cinema, Ealing, in 2006 John Stanley Coombe Beard FRIBA (17 July 1890 – 1970), [1] known professionally as J. Stanley Beard, was an English architect known for designing many cinemas in and around London.
Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941) [1] was a British entrepreneur who was the founder of Odeon Cinemas, the largest cinema chain in the United Kingdom. He opened his first cinema in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire in 1928, with the chain's flagship cinema, the Odeon, Leicester Square in London, opening in 1937.
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