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The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, opened in 1925 as a Vaudeville venue and was nicknamed "The greatest theatre of the South" and the "Million Dollar Theatre" by its builders, Julian and Abraham Saenger of Shreveport, owners of the Saenger Amusements Company, which operated theaters throughout the American South and in Central America.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. found an audience to laugh with him rather than at him at a comedy campaign fundraiser in downtown L.A.
Did you know the first movie shown at the Bama Theatre starred Cary Grant? Or that the Police, Vincent Price and Lily Tomlin have performed there?
Le Grand Rex, Million Dollar Theater: 18th Jules Verne Awards: 2010: Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Steve McQueen: The Empire Strikes Back, Bullitt: Le Grand Rex, Cinerama Dome: 19th Jules Verne Awards: 2011: John Wayne: True Grit: Cinerama Dome: 20th Jules Verne Awards: 2012: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Jacques Perrin, David Newman ...
The million dollar Mark Strand Theatre at 47th Street and Broadway in New York City opened in 1914 by Mitchell Mark was the archetypical movie palace. The ornate Al. Ringling Theatre was built in Baraboo, WI by Al Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Bros. Circus, for the then-incredible sum of $100,000.
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