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1. historicdetroit.org › buildings › united-artists-theatreUnited Artists Theatre - Historic Detroit

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   Three of a kind. That theater was the building's main attraction. The UA was the baby of Detroit's movie palaces, as it was the smallest of the giants. The UA was built exclusively for films -- a rarity at the time -- and showed mostly United Artists films.

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3. www.detroitnews.com › picture-gallery › newsShowtime! Detroit's historic theaters

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   Dec 6, 2015 · Detroit's ornate, eye-popping Fox Theatre, designed by C. Howard Crane, opened in 1928. It was a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, and was once Detroit's premier movie...

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4. cinematreasures.org › theaters › 4643Jefferson Theatre in Detroit, MI - Cinema Treasures

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   The Jefferson Theatre opened in 1914, and could seat 376. Closed by the late-1940’s, the theatre was apparently torn down shortly thereafter. Contributed by Bryan Krefft

5. historicdetroit.org › buildings › michigan-theatreMichigan Theatre - Historic Detroit

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   The Michigan Theatre opened Aug. 23, 1926, with the film "You Never Know Women" with Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman. The opening was the same day that one of the silent screen's biggest stars, Rudolph Valentino, died at age 31 of peritonitis caused by a perforated ulcer.

6. www.detroitnews.com › story › newsBragg: Peer into the past of Detroit's United Artists Theatre ...

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   Oct 7, 2022 · The bulldozers have finally pulled up to take down the United Artists Theatre, a half-century after the Detroit movie palace closed for good.

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7. detroitmichiganhistoryproject.weebly.com › 19201920 - Detroit, Michigan

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   The Fox Theatre is an ornate performing arts center in the United States, located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. It was built by William Fox and opened in 1928. It was the first movie theatre to have live sound.

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   When did the Fox Theatre open in Detroit?

   • Detroit's ornate, eye-popping Fox Theatre, designed by C. Howard Crane, opened in 1928. It was a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, and was once Detroit's premier movie destination. It now hosts live performances. The Detroit News Archives Detroiters stand in line an hour before the Fox Theatre box office office opens in April 1934.

   Showtime! Detroit's historic theaters

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   What happened to the United Artists Theatre in Detroit?

   • Detroit — The United Artists Theatre was already in ruins in the late 1970s, when engineers from London Records toured several auditoriums in Detroit, scouting for the best acoustics in the city. They tried the Ford Auditorium and old Orchestra Hall. They tried another abandoned movie theater that was torn down before recording began.

   Bragg: Peer into the past of Detroit's United Artists Theatre

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   Is Detroit a theatre?

   • To the Michigan, to see an eye-popping playhouse," the Detroit News wrote in November 1970. "It is not merely a theatre for Detroit," Kunsky told The Detroiter in August 1926. "It is a theatre for the whole world. It is designed to be the great showplace of the middle west."

   Michigan Theatre - Historic Detroit

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   Who built the United Artists Theatre in Detroit?

   • The United Artists Theatre in Detroit was built by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D.W. Griffith. These four prominent figures in showbiz were the founders of the movie studio in 1919. Detroit's UA was one of three theaters that Howard designed in the Spanish Gothic style for the United Artists Theatre Circuit, following theaters in Chicago and Los Angeles.

   United Artists Theatre — Historic Detroit

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   What happened to Detroit's movie houses in the 1960s?

   • With the rise of television and suburban theaters, attendance at Detroit's movie houses dropped off dramatically by the 1960s. One by one the grand movie houses' marquees went dark: the Annex in 1949, the Oriental the year after, the Majestic the year after that, the Hollywood in 1958.

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   What happened to the Riviera Theater in Detroit?

   • The Detroit News Archives The Riviera Theater on Grand River Avenue, designed by John Eberson in an Italian Renaissance style, sported a four-story vertical marquee. It opened as a movie theater in 1925 and was demolished in 1999. In this 1964 photo, it was promoting a telecast of the Sonny Liston/Cassius Clay fight.

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9. www.atlasobscura.com › abandoned-movie-theatersPhotographing the Afterlives and Second Acts of America’s ...

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   Oct 21, 2019 · Today, the United Artists Theatre in downtown Detroit is vacant, crumbling, its future uncertain, but on opening night in 1928, it was packed with “lots of high hats, plenty of low gowns and the...