I was a friend of George Ellis and George Macrenaris, who also worked at the Film Forum (and may have been Ellis' silent partner). On May 1, 1982, I had a baby girl. The Film Forum had a “crying room” for babies and parents. My baby girl, Helen and I went to the movies every week, at least once a week, and sat quietly in the “crying room” probably through August or September of 1982. The two Georges grew to love my baby girl. In December of 1982, George Ellis was at a Christmas caroling party with my husband, my daughter, and I and his big bass voice charmed Helen Marie to sleep as he sang Christmas carols at the home of Mary Nelle and Dante Santacroce. The theater was still showing films, with Macrenaris running it, when my son was born in September of 1983. I think that is when it closed. I thought of buying it and showing children’s movies, but the informal survey I took of women with children indicated that they would not let their children go to the movies in what they called the “gay shopping center.”
I was a friend of George Ellis and George Macrenaris, who also worked at the Film Forum (and may have been Ellis' silent partner). On May 1, 1982, I had a baby girl. The Film Forum had a “crying room” for babies and parents. My baby girl, Helen and I went to the movies every week, at least once a week, and sat quietly in the “crying room” probably through August or September of 1982. The two Georges grew to love my baby girl. In December of 1982, George Ellis was at a Christmas caroling party with my husband, my daughter, and I and his big bass voice charmed Helen Marie to sleep as he sang Christmas carols at the home of Mary Nelle and Dante Santacroce. The theater was still showing films, with Macrenaris running it, when my son was born in September of 1983. I think that is when it closed. I thought of buying it and showing children’s movies, but the informal survey I took of women with children indicated that they would not let their children go to the movies in what they called the “gay shopping center.”