Cameo Theatre
3260 Main Street,
Exmore,
VA
23350
3260 Main Street,
Exmore,
VA
23350
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The Cameo Theatre was opened in 1938 with Katherine Hepburn in “Stage Door”. My grandfather, Pete Gladstone, ran this theatre in Exmore, VA. It was closed in the late-1950’s by the time I was old enough to pay attention. I have been inside the building since, once in an incarnation as a restaurant, and recently as a factory of sorts making handcrafted tile.
Pete was a great theatre man, later going on to manage the Neighborhood chain of theatres in Richmond, VA. Even though the details I currently know about the Cameo are skimpy, I hoped to see it listed here as a tribute to this wonderful man.
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This web page has three stories about small towns in Virginia, the last of them being Exmore. It says that the Cameo Theatre opened in 1938 with the Katherine Hepburn-Ginger Rogers film Stage Door. The house closed in the late 1950s.
The building is now occupied by a company called New Ravenna Mosaics, which bills itself as a designer of handcrafted mosaics in glass and stone. The ultimate goal is to restore the Cameo for use as the company’s main showroom.