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In October 2008 the Mann Chinese 6 Theatre complex in Hollywood was the first 3-D-ready commercial cinema to unveil the installation of Iosono technology, featuring 380 speakers. [9] In April 2009 the Mann Chinese 6 was among the first to present motion-enhanced theatrical films featuring 30 D-BOX motion controlled seats.
Ted Mann, owner of the Mann Theatres chain and husband of actress Rhonda Fleming, purchased it in 1973. From then until 2001, it was known as Mann's Chinese Theatre. Mann Theatres grew to become the largest independent chain in the country before Mann sold the business, including the Chinese Theatre, to Gulf+Western in 1986. [20] [21]
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts' Education & Community Engagement program is the region's largest free education program, serving over 50,000 young people annually. The Mann's annual Young People's Concert Series features five free main stage performances making performing arts programs accessible to children in the Philadelphia region.
Ted Mann (April 16, 1916 – January 15, 2001) was an American businessman involved in the film industry and head of Mann Theatres.In 1973, he purchased the National General Theatre chain and changed the name of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, which was a part of the chain, to Mann's Chinese Theater.
Its genesis was the promise for a new theater made in the late 1920s by then Dartmouth president Ernest Martin Hopkins to Warner Bentley, a newly recruited English faculty member with responsibility for the non-department theatre program. Various calamities intervened—the Depression, the Second World War, Korea, and Hopkins' own retirement.
Rosa Grauman (mother of theatre owner, Sid) and George Raft (March 25, 1940) John Barrymore (September 5, 1940) Jack Benny (January 13, 1941) Carmen Miranda (March 24, 1941) Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor (June 11, 1941) Rudy Vallée (July 21, 1941) Cecil B. DeMille (August 7, 1941) The Family of Judge James K. Hardy (August 15, 1941)
On February 7, 1903, Sid Grauman opened the Unique Theatre at 20 East Santa Clara Street in San Jose. The theatre presented movies, stock theater companies, amateur nights, and vaudeville acts. The most notable amateur to develop his talent there was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The 1906 earthquake demolished the Unique Theatre, and Grauman moved ...
The second and third floors of the museum will feature the opening exhibition "Stories of Cinema". [25] The inaugural temporary collection of the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery was devoted to Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. [2] [26] The exhibition opened on September 30, 2021, and was on view until June 5, 2022. This was the first ...