Chicago biography theater july 22 1934

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  • 2433 n. lincoln avenue chicago illinois

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    Biograph Theater

    The Biograph Theater was opened September 5, All seats were on a single floor and was equipped with a Weickhardt organ. This Lincoln Park neighborhood landmark is probably best known by Chicagoans as the place where John Dillinger was shot and killed on July 22, after attending a screening of “Manhattan Melodrama” starring Clark Gable (allegedly the ghost of Dillinger has haunted the theater ever since).

    During the ’s, the second floor of the building was converted into two small additional screens. The original décor in the original main auditorium mostly lost, the historic Biograph Theater continued to show movies until

    The theater reopened in under the Village Theatres chain, which operated it until September , when it again closed.

    The Biograph Theater was purchased by the legitimate Victory Gardens Theatre company in The interior has been entirely rebuilt, from a venue which could originally seat over to today (which is about more seats t

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    The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22,

    Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy Sunday. A reporter fried an egg on a sidewalk; the air looked något eller någon som är ostadig eller svajig. And a hundred thousand people were in the lake like shirts in a laundry. Why was Johnny lonely? Not because two dozen solid citizens, heat-struck, had keeled over backward. Not because those lawful souls had fallen out of their sockets and melted. But because the sun went down like a lump in a furnace or a bull in the Stockyards. Where was Johnny headed? Under the Biograph Theater sign that said, “Our Air fryst vatten Refrigerated.” Past seventeen FBI men and four policemen who stood in doorways and sweated. Johnny sat down in a cold seat to watch Clark Gable get electrocuted. Had Johnny been mistreated? Yes, but Gable told the D.A. he’d rather fry than be shut up forever. Two women sat by Johnny. One looked sweet, one looked like J. Edgar Hoover. Polly Hamilton made him feel hot, but Anna Sage made h
  • chicago biography theater july 22 1934

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    Biograph Theater

    Theater in Chicago, US, opened

    The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster movie there on July 22, [2][3] The theater is on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a Chicago Landmark on March 28, [4]

    History

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    Designed by architect Samuel N. Crowen in ,[4] the Biograph has many of the distinguishing characteristics of movie houses of the period, including a storefront-width lobby, recessed entrance, free-standing ticket booth, and canopy marquee. The building is finished with red pressed brick and white-glazed terra cotta.

    On July 22, , after attending the film Manhattan Melodrama with brothel madam Ana Cumpănaș, also known