The March 27, 1954 issue of Boxoffice Magazine has a long article entitled “Death of Carlton Mourned like Old Friend.” Google “Boxoffice-March.27.1954” and the issue should come up.
Note what was said here about the construction of the Hollywood Theatre in East Providence. The negative attitude of the city was also seen in the years leading up to the theatre’s razing in 2008, when they could have made efforts to save the building.
The Italian film “The Little World of Don Camillo” had its American premiere here at the Lincoln at the end of December 1952 according to a blurb in Boxoffice Magazine on January 3, 1953.
According to Boxoffice Magazine, this was the first time a foreign-language film played a large New York theatre in its original-language version with subtitles.
August 1948.
The co-feature was the 1955 “Cult of the Cobra.”
“Four Ways Out” was a pretty good Pietro Germi film, shown here in a dubbed version.
I remember going to see Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch” at the Majestic in Providence when I was thirteen. I loved her. Who didn’t?
Ad in Pawtucket (RI) Times.
Added to the National Film Registry in 1992, the film has been shown on TCM and can be watched in English or Spanish on YouTube.
Boxoffice Magazine.
Hurricane flooding.
The Catholic Diocese of Providence warned Catholics at masses that going to see this film would be a mortal sin. I remember it all well.
The March 27, 1954 issue of Boxoffice Magazine has a long article entitled “Death of Carlton Mourned like Old Friend.” Google “Boxoffice-March.27.1954” and the issue should come up.
Note what was said here about the construction of the Hollywood Theatre in East Providence. The negative attitude of the city was also seen in the years leading up to the theatre’s razing in 2008, when they could have made efforts to save the building.
I saw this film here during this run. I was seventeen.
I went here with my parents during the opening run. I was eleven.
I went to the film here, with my parents, during the opening run. I was eleven years old.
“The Lovers” = “Amanti in fuga” (1946).
In the Diocese of Providence announcements were made in all Catholic churches that it would be a mortal sin for any Catholics to see this movie.
In Providence announcements were made in all Catholic churches that it would be a mortal sin for any Catholics to see this movie.
The Italian film “The Little World of Don Camillo” had its American premiere here at the Lincoln at the end of December 1952 according to a blurb in Boxoffice Magazine on January 3, 1953.
The film played in January 1952.
Opening date: April 12, 1952.
According to Boxoffice Magazine, this was the first time a foreign-language film played a large New York theatre in its original-language version with subtitles.
In 2015.
The 1951 flood led ultimately to the closure of the theatre in 1952.
The Liberty was in Providence, became the Art Cinema in 1958 and the Bomes Theatre in the mid-2010’s.
President and Mrs. Truman attended the premiere of the film here in April 1951.