Friday, December 27, 2013

NEW YEAR'S THEATER PARTIES


CAPITOL THEATRE
1941
CENTER THEATRE
1955

CAPITOL THEATRE
1957

CAPITOL THEATRE
1958

Saturday, December 21, 2013

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SALISBURY THEATERS

To commemorate the third anniversary of their operation of the CAPITOL and VICTORY theaters in downtown Salisbury, PUBLIX-SAENGER THEATRES ran the following ads in the June 30, 1929 edition of the SALISBURY POST.


Sunday, December 15, 2013

FIFTIES FLICKS IN SALISBURY / ROWAN


STATE THEATRE
October 11, 1950

CAPITOL THEATRE
November 18, 1951

SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE
August 9, 1952

HITCHING POST DRIVE-IN THEATRE
June 7, 1953

HITCHING POST DRIVE-IN THEATRE
March 18, 1952

CAPITOL THEATRE
September 15, 1953

CAPITOL THEATRE
June 8, 1954

CAPITOL THEATRE
October 3, 1954

SKYLINE DRIVE-IN THEATRE
February 18, 1955

CAPITOL THEATRE
March 27, 1955

601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE
April 28, 1956

601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE
June 2, 1956

CAPITOL THEATRE
June 3, 1956

HITCHING POST DRIVE-IN THEATRE
June 15, 1956

SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE
July 2, 1957

Saturday, December 14, 2013

SALISBURY MOVIES DURING THE 1930s


CAPITOL THEATRE
November 13, 1930

The ONLY movie during
the 1930s which played
more than six
straight days.

VICTORY THEATRE
January 17, 1930

VICTORY THEATRE
November 16, 1930

CAPITOL THEATRE
November 23, 1930

CAPITOL THEATRE
December 21, 1930

VICTORY THEATRE
December 28, 1930

CAPITOL THEATRE
October 13, 1932

CAPITOL THEATRE
October 8, 1933

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 1, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 4, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 26, 1934

VICTORY THEATRE
March 11, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
May 1, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
May 20, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
June 4, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
July 22, 1934

CAPITOL THEATRE
September 16, 1934

VICTORY THEATRE
December 7, 1934

VICTORY THEATRE
March 13, 1935

CAPITOL THEATRE
April 29, 1935

VICTORY THEATRE
February 23, 1939

Saturday, December 7, 2013

That "FIDDLE-DEE-DEE" Woman


 VIVIEN LEIGH
(1913 - 1967)

The British actress, best remembered for playing two Southern belles on the screen (Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND and Blanche DuBois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE) was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, daughter of a successful businessman living in India.

At the end of WWI, her family moved back to England, and her parents placed the young girl of six in a convent school. One of her best childhood friends at the school was future actress Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in six features).

At the age of nineteen, Vivian married Herbert Leigh in 1932 and had her only child the following year. She left her husband in 1937 and began a relationship with actor Laurence Olivier. Their twenty-year marriage began in 1940 after divorce ink was dry for both.

She was awarded the plum role of Scarlett O'Hara after virtually every actress in show business had auditioned for the part. For her nine months of work on GONE WITH THE WIND, she was paid $25,000. After winning the Academy Award Best Actress award as Scarlett, her film salary quadrupled. She later won the Best Actress honor again for STREETCAR.

Her health unraveled in 1945. She contracted tuberculosis and was diagnosed as a manic depressive. Both illnesses would plague her the rest of her life.

She had to drop out of the filming of the 1954 film, ELEPHANT WALK, due to sickness. She was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor. An affair with co-star Peter Finch during filming nearly broke up her marriage to Olivier. Watching ELEPHANT WALK today, if you look closely at some of the long shots of the movie, it is Vivien Leigh in the frame, not Liz.

The strain of her illnesses eventually destroyed her marriage, and she and Olivier divorced in 1960.

A severe attack of tuberculosis took Vivien in 1967. She was only 53.

Despite her legendary status as a movie actress, Vivien Leigh made only nineteen movies. She and Olivier spent much of their careers performing on the London and New York stages.

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
(1935)

GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
1935

THE VILLAGE SQUIRE
1935

FIRE OVER ENGLAND
1937

DARK JOURNEY
1937

STORM IN A TEACUP
1937

A YANK AT OXFORD
1938

THE SIDEWALKS OF LONDON
1938

GONE WITH THE WIND
1939

21 DAYS TOGETHER
1940

WATERLOO BRIDGE
1940

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
1941

CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
1945

ANNA KARENINA
1948

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1951

THE DEEP BLUE SEA
1955

THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE
1961

SHIP OF FOOLS
1965