Paramount Theatre - Middletown NY
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N 41° 26.651 W 074° 25.239
18T E 548395 N 4588229
Built in 1930 in an Art Deco style, a twin to the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, across the Hudson River.
Waymark Code: WMMYAG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/23/2014
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Paramount-Publix Corporation (now Paramount Pictures), the builder and original owner, opened the building on June 12 of that year with a celebration that included a parade at noon, a musical performance by the Paramount Symphony Orchestra, and the first movie, The Big Pond, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert at 6 p.m. It was preceded by a newsreel, a short film about Middletown and its citizens, and a welcome film starring Buddy Rogers.
Paramount-Publix had to sell the theater after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1948 United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. decision, which required the movie studios to divest themselves of their theater chains. ABC, a successor corporation, owned the Paramount until 1973 when it sold it to Hallmark Releasing. After several other owners, it closed five years later. In 1979, the city took title when back taxes went unpaid
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