Playhouse Cinema
Church Street,
Moreton-in-Marsh,
GL56
Church Street,
Moreton-in-Marsh,
GL56
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Located in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The Playhouse Cinema was built at the rear of the Manor House Hotel on Church Street, and used an existing former cottage in the hotels' rear yard as its entrance, which also contained the projection box. The auditorium lay along Church Street. It was built for Mr. G.S. Thomas and opened in 1927. All seating was on a single level. The proscenium was 18 feet wide, the stage 12 feet deep and there were two dressing rooms.
Around 1929 it was equipped with an A.W.H sound system. During World War II a snack bar was installed in the foyer. The Playhouse Cinema was equipped with CinemaScope in 1955.
The Playhouse Cinema was closed on 19th March 1961 with Paul Henreid in “The Spanish Main”. It then hosted dances and other social events. Eventually, the cottage/entrance part of the building was renovated into living accommodation, and the auditorium was possibly used for storage. The building still stands in 2014.
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According to a history and a contemporaneous press cutting held in the Cinema Theatre Association Archive the Playhouse closed on 19th March 1961. In the history, the final film is said to be “The Spanish Man”, but this should perhaps have read “The Spanish Main”, a swashbuckler from 1945 starring Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara.