Miller Theatre
708 Broad Street,
Augusta,
GA
30901
708 Broad Street,
Augusta,
GA
30901
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Mike did you ever have a “BUD” at the MIller,if youv'e got the time we got the Miller
Something called MONKEY HUSTLE is gracing that beautiful Screen. Rated PG. Clint is across the street at the IMPERIAL with THE ENFORCER kicking butt.MONKEY HUSTLE ratedPG.
THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER opens at the Miller. It is slow one night at the IMPERIAL and David Hyatt, Manager lets me catch a bit. Ron O'Neal outta know better, and Tom Laughlin from Billy Jack FAME is just as bad. Thank goodness we ain’t playing it.
In 1969 the MILLER opens first run CASTLE KEEP the long awaited Burt Lancaster war movie. The R rating does not help with his fans. His Next effort the GYPSY MOTHS would quckly be shipped to the Drive ins. Both Rated R.And I believe the R rating hurt both productions.His last money maker at the Miller was AIRPORT.
that same sad weekend THE LONGEST DAY is playing at the Miller> A fitting Film for WW2 hero JFK. Nov 22 1963.
The nation mourns Nov. 23 1963. some theatres have cancelled shows in the afternnon at night THE MILLER is showing ELVIS in FUN IN ACAPULCO. This is a Midnight Show,
A STRANGER IN TOWN with Tony Anthony opens a run at the MILLER. april 27 1968. MGM western.
A huge ad in the local paper. Now playing THE WILD BUNCH rated R at the Miller. Show starts at 1;15- 3;45- 6:10 and 9:00.
I remember when i was under 17 and theatres enforced the code.I could not see THE GODFATHER had to go over to the IMPERIAL and see TALES FROM THE CRYPT. A PG rated horror movie,It wasn’t bad.
One night after finishing up at THE IMPERIAL i waled across the street to see THE FRENCH CONNECTION PART 2,but it was a big let down.You know it might have done better at NATIONAL HILLS.
ENTER THE DRAGON played at THE MILLER after THE IMPERIAL getting the first BRUCE LEE FILMS; FIST OF FURY and CHINESE CONNECTION.
AIRPORT opens first run at the MILLER and AIRPORT 75 will open there first run. SHAMPOO opened at the Miller and was then moved to SOUTHGATE cinema where it played 4 weeks more. THE TOWERING INFERNO was the big 1974 CHRISTMAS picture. It ran neck and neck with EARTHQUAKE across the street at the IMPERIAL. I sat in there probably for the last time and watched THE SHINING with a black audience that talked back to the screen constanly.Something you just dealt with when i worked at the IMPERIAL. One guy was playing a boombox,not loud,but enough to bother the heck out of me.
thank goodness i was seeing it for free. The mighty MILLER theatre was on its last legs. Rowdy moviegoers an honest to goodness boombox and no one working the theatre that really cared.
On the HALLOWEEN edition of the METRO SPIRIT they are running a story if THE MILLER is haunted. Believe me i have been everywhere in that theatre and NEVER came across a ghost. It is nonsense. OCT. 28 2009.
Mike D. i have just about wrote all i can on the Imperial NATIONAL HILLS and COLUMBIA 1 and 2. I did get a set of blueprints from the MILLER when we were cleaning it up in the 80’s for the ballet.I could not see throwing them away.I told TIM CAMPBELL at the IMPERIAL when i locate them in a basement ful of theatre stuff I want the MILLER to have them.
Mike, you can contact me via my website, www.augustaamusements.com
Look forward to sharing more Augusta historic theatre information.
Mike D.
The MILLER Theatre probably on that screen for the last time, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is playing at 1:15 4:30 and 7:50. OCT. 25 1974
I was an Usher at the Miller in 1958. That Theater was a Masterpiece.
One night the other Usher (I don’t remember his name) talked to the candy girl at the Concession stand just inside the inside entrance doors. He came back and said “guess who’s coming in”. Buddy Knox. Buddy had just released his record “Party Doll”. He came through the doorway with his manager and they went on past us. we were not to offer to show anyone seats unless they asked. I did'nt get a chance to see Buddy’s face so I went down the isle with a flashlight as if looking for something. when I finally realized where he was sitting I went past a ways and then turned and walked back up the isle so I could get a look at him with the screen reflection on him.
10 years later I was in a Band in Macon, Ga. playing 5 nights a week at the Cabaret Lounge. Somebody said" guess who is in the place" , yep . Buddy Knox. I got to meet him and I told him about the “big deal” of him being in the Miller. He was very amused an a great polite person and fine singer. He said he released about 185 songs and had 3 gold records. That was in 1968.
Thanks, Ray Hutto
Thank you, Mike. I look forward to whatever contributions you can make to the history (and even existence of) Augusta indoor and outdoor theaters.
THE MILLER THEATRE WAS GEORGIA THEATRE.As a child i saw a lot of movies there like Sword in the Stone. BATMAN with Adam West SOLD OUT the place the saturday I was there.I was Planet of the APES there. THE MILLER played the GOdfather.IT also played TOWERNING INFERNO while Across the street The Imperial played EARTHQUKE. SOmeone called it SHAKE and BAKE. AUGUSTA’s LOCAL 629 stagehands which i am a part of was hired to clean the theatre for the NUTCRACKER BALLET. I FOUND COUNTLESS PRICELESS THEATRE ONE SHEETS AND RECORD BOOKS THAT we were told to trash. I took everything i could. I did open my stupid mouth about the movie posters and my union buddies grabbed some great BEATLES Stuff. DAVID HYATT WAS THE THEATREMANAGER FOR the good years and he sadly saw the lousy drive in type films Georgia Theatres were booking in. LYNARD SKYNARD PLAYED A CONCERT THERE IN THE EARLY 70s. WHAT MOVIE OPENED WHEN JAWS OPENED across the street AT the IMPERIAL? Well, THE MILLER HAD THE JAMES CANN FLICK ROLLERBALL. THEBUSINESS IT DID WAS FROM OVERFLOW FROM JAWS. WE KICKED THEIR BUTT ON THAT BOOKING. DAVID HYATT STATED IN THE THEATRE BUSINESS AT THE MODJESKA AND THATS ALL HE EVER KNEW. ED BLANK I AM PUTTING A COMPLETE HISTORY ON ALL AUGUSTA’S THEATRES THE DRIVE INS TO BECAUSE REALLY NO ONE IN THIS TOWN KNOWS ARE CARES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THSES FINE SHOWCASES.
Here is a B&W photo:
http://tinyurl.com/mhpv66
Renewing link.
There are some interior photos from 2004 on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/9eeoxj
The Miller Theatre has been donated by Peter S. Knox IV to the Augusta Symphony. Hopefully SPLOST (special purpose local option sales tax) will be approved and restoration will begin ~2011.
Thanks for your informative responses, Faude. I was at Fort Gordon from summer 1965 through spring 1966 and saw just about everything that opened in and around Augusta. I’ll check out (on Cinema Treasures) the drive-ins and the theater you mentioned. The Forest Hills sounds most familiar.
Also in response to Ed Blank: If you don’t consider North Augusta a “city of some size,” then, yes, Aiken is the closest city to Augusta that’s in SC.