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July 17, 1935
- As a 10-year-old boy, he was at his father’s side when he opened the first Odeon at 271 Birchfield Road, Perry Barr with screenings of Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers in Illusion and Stewart Rome in Dark Red Roses. Designed in a Moorish style by architects Stanley A. Griffiths and Horace G. Bradley, it officially joined the Odeon circuit on July 17, 1935.
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The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), England, although initially called "Picture House". The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930.
The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), England, although initially called "Picture House". The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930.
The 1937 Odeon Cinema. The 19 April 1937 saw the opening of the Odeon Cinema at 114-116 High Street Epsom. It was just latest of the cinema chain run under the Odeon brand by Odeon Theatres Limited.
Oct 13, 2015 · For it’s a little-known fact today that it was in Perry Barr that the first ever cinema to bear the Odeon brand name was opened in 1930 by Oscar Deutsch. Two years earlier, in 1928, the Balsall...
Nov 30, 2012 · Originally a Paramount cinema, which opened with Errol Flynn’s The Charge of the Light Brigade on September 4, 1937, the flagship Birmingham city centre New Street Odeon (on the site of Oscar’s old school) became an Odeon in August 1942 – nine months after Oscar’s death on December 5, 1941.
Our founder in the UK was Oscar Deutsch, a pioneer of the European cinema experience, who opened his first cinema in 1930.
Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941) [1] was a British entrepreneur who was the founder of Odeon Cinemas, the largest cinema chain in the United Kingdom. He opened his first cinema in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire in 1928, with the chain's flagship cinema, the Odeon, Leicester Square in London, opening in 1937.
