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Interesting to know the actual dates these were on, Peyton Place was released in1957 and The Long Hot Summer in 1958, both 'steamy' for that time in our lives, Peyton Place starred Arthur Kennedy, Hope Lange, Lana Turner and Russ Tamblyn and The Long Hot Summer, the first film that Newman and Woodward made together and incidentally married that year also in the cast of note were Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury. Both in their own way classics , the Paul Newman film based on the book by William Faulkner, and Peyton Place on the book by Grace Metalious. And yes we trooped into town to see them, hang the cost of going to the city centre movies, we had read the books and they obviously fitted in with the films we enjoyed, particularly some of the more obscure 'art' films as seen at the Cinephone ...'and god created Woman' aaah Brigitte je vous aime. The version of this shown in Germany was uncensored. How naïve and innocent we were all then in those far off days
According to a 1983 article by N J Staley available on Google, it was called the Picturedrome and there is a write up about it. I t is also recorded in the Cleggs book The Dream Palaces of Birmingham, which has it as the Cotteridge Picturedrome, but with very little information. It apparently opened in 1912 and lasted only a few years. Unfortunately there is no picture. Hope this helps.Would anyone know the name of the cinema that stood in Hudsons drive Cotteridge or have a photo of it G
According to a 1983 article by N J Staley available on Google, it was called the Picturedrome and there is a write up about it. I t is also recorded in the Cleggs book The Dream Palaces of Birmingham, which has it as the Cotteridge Picturedrome, but with very little information. It apparently opened in 1912 and lasted only a few years. Unfortunately there is no picture. Hope this helps.
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Further to the above, put Cottridge Picturedrome into Google and scroll down to Wickipedia and the cinemas entry. Does this help
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Would anyone know the name of the cinema that stood in Hudsons drive Cotteridge or have a photo of it G
There is a name in the centre circle that I just can't make out. Looks like somethingView attachment 118313
Does anyone know where this is. It was in a folder of old Birmingham bits and pieces but I do not remember where it came from..
According to the book by Chris and Rosemary Clegg, this is the Villa Cross. This picture is in the book, I ploughed through the book page after page and the book is presented in Alphabetical order and there are not many cinemas after the letter V.View attachment 118313
Does anyone know where this is. It was in a folder of old Birmingham bits and pieces but I do not remember where it came from..
According to the book by Chris and Rosemary Clegg, this is the Villa Cross. This picture is in the book, I ploughed through the book page after page and the book is presented in Alphabetical order and there are not many cinemas after the letter V.
Bob Davis
Apparently Jeanette Macdonald was a star long before she met up with Nelson Eddy and it was only in a 1936 film, where he wore the mounties uniform that they first sang together, but even then they were not automatically coupled and she continued to make films in her own name and then in the forties they came together after she moved studios.It seems strange that Nelson Eddy is not on that poster. Maybe that was before they teamed up.
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