Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street,
Brookline,
MA
02446
290 Harvard Street,
Brookline,
MA
02446
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Here you go, a direct link to my recent Coolidge Corner Theater photo.
I don’t see any photo there. It says I have to join Webshots to see anything.
On a recent trip to Boston I took an evening photo of the Coolidge capturing the nice Art Deco lighting features of this beautiful theater.
Here is a photo of the Coolidge showing their marquee (and building windows) promoting their current 3-D Festival. I saw a wonderful print of the M.G.M. musical “Kiss Me Kate” today. I hadn’t seen it in 3-D since 1954, the year it was made. The audience was most appreciative, from the sound of the appplause. Films in the series include “House of Wax,” “The Mad Magician,” “Miss Sadie Thompson,” “Gorilla at Large” and more.
The first sentence of the description needs to be corrected. Brookline is not a ‘Boston neighborhood’; it is a separate town. I’d change ‘neighborhood’ to ‘suburb’.
The architect of the Coolidge Corner Theatre was Ernest Haywood. It was not built in 1933 (as stated in the opening introduction notes above), but was converted in that year from a former Beacon Universalist Church (a Romanesque revival edifice) which was built in 1906.
Originally seating 1,274, the main auditorium now seats 600, the screen in the former balcony seats 250 and the small screening room seats 45.
This theatre has dependably excellent projection and 70mm capability in the large auditorium, and they sporadically do revival series of selected films in 70mm. Memory: as a teenager in 1960 I went to the Coolidge Corner for the first time ever to see Francois Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS. It made an indelible impression on me. It’s a shame that the original entrance and part of the lobby were turned into a commercial space, so that one has to go in through a thoroughly banal-looking side entrance carved out of a wall. Uggh!
Another treasure that should live forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Coolidge now has a small video screening room in addition to the two cinema screens.
The Coolidge Theatre as a single screen theatre once seated 1274 people as of 1955.
I called the Coolidge Theatre and was told the seating is 600…
Address: 250 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
office phone: 617-734-2501
recorded info: 617-734-2500
URL: http://www.coolidge.org/coolidge.html