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In 1940, Malco Theatres purchased the Orpheum Theatre, a former vaudevillian theatre in downtown Memphis, and renamed it The Malco. This opulent movie palace at 89 Beale Street also became the base of operations for Malco Theatres until 1976. The Malco began operations on April 20, 1940, with its first film It's a Date. The premiere gala was ...
As vaudeville's popularity waned, Michael A. Lightman's movie theater chain purchased the Orpheum in 1940 and changed its name to the Malco, presenting first-run movies. [6] In 1976, Lightman decided to sell the building, as intimate multiplex theaters were proving more lucrative than large single-screen venues. [2]
The Orpheum's summer movie series was launched in 1984 by the theater's longtime head, Pat Halloran (who died in February, at 80), and original series curator, Vincent Astor (who died last year ...
Bluff City Pickleball is housed at the former Malco theater at 2809 Bartlett Blvd. at the Malco Plaza Shopping Center. The 27,000-square-foot theater opened in 1989 and closed in late 2022.
Memphis actress Kat Conner Sterling, 27, has a key supporting role in "Popular Theory," a PG-rated comedy now at the Malco Cordova Cinema (an appropriate venue, for a movie featuring the former ...
This is a list of movie theater chains across the world. [1] [2] ... Malco Theatres: 35 362 Memphis, TN Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana
Those who can't wait to see Rife at the Orpheum can head to the Malco Cordova, Collierville, Desoto or Paradiso cinema for "The Private Eye," a very low-budget mystery-comedy being released to ...
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