Wording on the marquee reads VISIT E.M. LOEW’S PROVIDENCE DRIVE-IN THEATRE, PROVIDENCE CITY LINE. So the Center itself must have been shuttered at this time.
Wording on the marquee reads VISIT E.M. LOEW’S PROVIDENCE DRIVE-IN THEATRE, PROVIDENCE CITY LINE. So the Center itself must have been shuttered at this time.
“In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.” —IMDb intro
“4 Devils” is a now-lost film by F. W. Murnau.
“Der träumende Mund” by Paul Czinner.
The complete film can be seen on YouTube but only in its Spanish-language version. It was an American movie.
The theatre opened as the Central around September 2, 1913.
This would mean that the Central Theatre was not demolished.
Strand up the street.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
First film shown here, I believe.
A truncated version of the film.
Renoir’s “La Bête Humaine” was a 1938 film released in New York in February 1940.
Frank Capra film. Soundtrack now lost.
Wording on the marquee reads VISIT E.M. LOEW’S PROVIDENCE DRIVE-IN THEATRE, PROVIDENCE CITY LINE. So the Center itself must have been shuttered at this time.
Wording on the marquee reads VISIT E.M. LOEW’S PROVIDENCE DRIVE-IN THEATRE, PROVIDENCE CITY LINE. So the Center itself must have been shuttered at this time.
Article from 1989.
A John Ford film.
“The Brat” is a little known or seen John Ford film. Attention, TCM!
Adapted revival.
That was the REAR of the Empire Theatre. This area was then part of Providence’s Chinatown.
About European Jewish war orphans in Palestine.
A film about homeless Jewish children in Palestine after WWII. Not easy to find copies of this movie today. A shame.
“Agony and the Ecstasy” - 1965.
Looks like 1977.
This movie can be seen, complete, on YouTube.
“In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.” —IMDb intro