Stage Door Cinema
16th Street and Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
16th Street and Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
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The stagehouse of the Fox Theatre (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures) was converted on September 1, 1971 into the Stage Door Cinema with a transfer from the original Milgram Theatre auditorium of Jack Nicholson in “Carnel Knowledge”.
“The Exorcist” opened here in 1973 as part of the limited North America engagements. Barabra Streisand in “A Star Is Born” opened here Christmas Day 1976. The last film to play here was George Segal in “The Last Married Couple in America”.
The theatre along with the Fox Theatre and adjacent Milgram Theatre were demolished in 1980 for a sky-scraper. A major part of Philadelphia history was lost.
Contributed by
Mike Martinelli
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Thanks MSC77 for this before we had the theater added.
Fifty years ago today THE EXORCIST opened here. The Stage Door was among only two-dozen cinemas in twenty-one North American markets to play the film at release launch. (I do not see a separate database entry for the Stage Door, a conversion of the Fox’s stagehouse area. Earlier today I erroneously posted this comment on a page for another theater named Stage Door.)
Hey Jillian
This is great news. I contributed this story above. I unfortunately never was in any of the Milgram Theaters in Center City but remember them well. I was in the Yeadon many times and I think they may have owned the Tower on 69thst before it was sold to Ellis Theaters.