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The Crescent Theatre, originally built as a live theatre at the turn of the century, was a pioneering establishment in the city, being one of the first to showcase silent pictures. In 1937, amidst the Great Depression, the theatre underwent a significant renovation led by architect Cooper Van Antwerp. The revamped Century Theater emerged as an ultra-modern cinema, causing a cultural stir in a city still grappling with the aftermath of the Civil War.
Rebranded as the Crescent Theater, the venue continued to captivate audiences with a curated selection of classic and independent films. Unfortunately, the theater closed its doors in April 2023, marking the end of an era in the city's entertainment scene.
Coming Soon to the Crescent
Casablanca
Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history--Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Bogart) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Bergman) walks through the front door of Rick's club. Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind, lauded as one of the American cinema’s grandest, most ambitious and spectacular pieces of filmmaking, was helmed by Victor Fleming in 1939, the same year as the director’s The Wizard of Oz. It captured 10 Academy Awards®[ii] including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first Oscar awarded to an African-American actor. Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, on which the film is based, has been translated into 16 languages, has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, and even now, continues to sell 50,000 copies a year.
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