In the news. Warning of same-sex kiss in a film. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/oklahoma-theater-posts-warning-sign-sex-kiss-pixars-lightyear-rcna34725
In her extraordinary autobiography, “Finding Me,” published in 2022, actress Viola Davis, who grew up in next-door Central Falls, mentions going to the Leroy Theatre with her siblings, probably in the 1970’s. She writes: “After that, we took our Easter money to Leroy Theatre to watch a double feature and eat either hot dogs or large bags of M&M’s. Seventy- five cents for a double feature and 35 cents for a big bag of M&M’s.” (Page 74)
The Park Theatre and Events Center has re-opened after being shuttered during the Covid 19 pandemic.
https://turnto10.com/news/entertainment/cranston-rhode-island-park-theatre-event-center-reopening-rolfe-square-dig-in-dining-entertainment-restaurant-group
Surprised to see there was actually a reserved seat policy for this film here. “Ways of Love” was a distributor created trilogy which included the controversial “The Miracle” by Roberto Rossellini.
August 1964.
First saw this here!
KWAHERI can be watched on YouTube, complete.
I saw this here. Surprisingly it was shown in the original Italian version with English subtitles.
A white supremacist film title.
“Last and Sassy” = “Fast and Sexy.”
Revival showing. It had premiered at the Majestic about four years earlier.
Day-dating with the Majestic in Providence.
Wouldn’t be long before this place became a porno house.
I came to see this here at age 16.
Mid-1960s, I believe. I remember seeing “Treasure of Sierra Madre” as part of this series here.
Don’t believe so. I attended one of these showings. The image was cropped too!
In Pawtucket Times.
In the news. Warning of same-sex kiss in a film. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/oklahoma-theater-posts-warning-sign-sex-kiss-pixars-lightyear-rcna34725
In her extraordinary autobiography, “Finding Me,” published in 2022, actress Viola Davis, who grew up in next-door Central Falls, mentions going to the Leroy Theatre with her siblings, probably in the 1970’s. She writes: “After that, we took our Easter money to Leroy Theatre to watch a double feature and eat either hot dogs or large bags of M&M’s. Seventy- five cents for a double feature and 35 cents for a big bag of M&M’s.” (Page 74)
I saw this here on July 31, 1959.
A.k.a. “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto”. A 1954 Japanese film with Toshiro Mifune.
The Park Theatre and Events Center has re-opened after being shuttered during the Covid 19 pandemic. https://turnto10.com/news/entertainment/cranston-rhode-island-park-theatre-event-center-reopening-rolfe-square-dig-in-dining-entertainment-restaurant-group
Two films from 1956.
A 1962 film.
This ad was from February 4, 1956 in The Woonsocket Call.
Saw this film here in 1976 when the photo was taken.
Rossellini, Stendhal.
The marquee signage gives the theatre the name “B. F. Keith’s Palace.”
Surprised to see there was actually a reserved seat policy for this film here. “Ways of Love” was a distributor created trilogy which included the controversial “The Miracle” by Roberto Rossellini.