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For more than ninety years the Cabot Street Cinema Theatre has been an important part of the Boston's North Shore community. Harris and Glover Ware, two brothers and former vaudeville musicians from Marblehead, Massachusetts, built the Cabot eight years after the construction of their first Beverly theater, the Larcom Theatre.
The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston.Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theater was only one of the highlights of the Hobbs Building, which also contained a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten ...
The Paramount opened in 1932 as a 1,700-seat, single-screen movie theatre. It was one of the first movie houses in Boston to play talking motion pictures. The theatre was named after its original owner, Paramount Pictures. It closed in 1976 and most of the Art Deco interior decoration was destroyed in the 1980s during the removal of asbestos. [2]
The theater opened on October 29, 1928, presenting first-run films along with live vaudeville. [2] [3] By 1929, the theater had converted to showing only films and remained a leading Boston movie showcase through the 1950s. It became known as RKO Keith's, and bore signage that said both "B.F. Keith's" and "RKO Keith's" (see the 1938 photo shown ...
The Plymouth Theatre (1911–1957) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. [ nb 1 ] Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Performers included Henry Jewett , [ 4 ] Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , 8-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. , [ 5 ] and Bette Davis . [ 6 ]
It is one of the few remaining movie theaters, if not the only one, to use a rear-projection system; the projector is located behind the screen rather than behind the audience. The Brattle Theatre mainly screens a mixture of foreign, independent, and classic films, and began showing repertory and foreign films in February 1953.
The Paramount Theater (formerly known as Julia Sanderson Theater and The Hippodrome) is an historic theater located at 1676-1708 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1926 out of part of the grand Massasoit House hotel [ 2 ] at a cost of over $1 million, the Paramount Theater was the most ornate picture palace in Western ...
Plymouth Adventure (1952) – the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts; The Actress (1953) – set in Wollaston, Massachusetts (a neighborhood of the city of Quincy) White Christmas (1954) – set in Vermont; Seven Angry Men (1955) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Lady and the Tramp (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) Carousel (1956)