Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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 ...
Malco Theatres: 35 362 Memphis, TN Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana ... In 2014 there were 5,813 movie theaters in China and 299 cinema ...
Nashville's status as the home of country music has been immortalized in both film and television, while Memphis' rock and roll ties have featured heavily in a number of films.
So, with the aura of movie magic lingering in the air like last week's freezing fog (and with Memphis recently named No. 21 in MovieMaker magazine's annual list of the top 30 "Best Places to Live ...
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 ...
US Premiere: Malco Theatres' Studio on the Square, Sept. 10, 2009 in Memphis, TN. Promoted by a collaboration between the On-Location Memphis & Indie Memphis Film Festivals. Promoted by a collaboration between the On-Location Memphis & Indie Memphis Film Festivals.