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Cinemas and movie theaters in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (8 P) Pages in category "Cinemas and movie theaters in Ohio" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Atlas Cinemas on Thursday reopened the 10-screen former Cinemark movie theater in Barrington Plaza, 140 Barrington Town Square Drive. For showtimes and tickets, check out atlascinemas.net .
The theatre opened on November 6, 1922, with vaudeville star Elsie Janis headlining. The show was sold out, with several high-profile guests of the entertainment world attending, like Marcus Loew, a pioneer of the motion picture world and founder of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM) film studio, and Adolph Zukor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.
Designed by architect George Rapp of Chicago, the Palace was the last theater built in Cincinnati before movies gained the prominence that they now enjoy.Built by the Ohio Construction Company at a cost of half a million dollars, the theater originally showed primarily vaudeville acts, but by the time RKO Pictures purchased it in 1930, it had been renovated to facilitate the showing of movies.
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The last theater to be constructed was the Palace Theatre, [7] now known as the Connor Palace, opening in November 1922 in the Keith Building, which at the time was the tallest in Cleveland. [5] There was a great promotion for the theater's opening: the largest electric sign in the world [ 8 ] was turned on to show that the Palace was open for ...
In 2006, the building was leased by Palace Cinemas who also acquired the cinema's business and added two extra screens in the former upstairs balcony. [13] Yiannoudes retains ownership of the building itself. He maintains an office on the premises full of memorabilia from decades of Greek cinema that he plans to turn into a museum. [14]