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Thorley Theater
Cedar City, Utah
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Empress Theatre
Magna, Utah
The Empress Theatre has opened once again!
9104 West 2700 South
The OHPAA group continues it's renovating efforts, with an expanded parking area now ready to use and two addtitional rooms now painted! We have also been officially designated a Non'profit Corporation by the IRS! The Empress is also the filming location for a new Disney Movie ("Dadnapped") which will be aired on the Disney Channel next spring. We are very excited!
And come see the new carpet in our lobby! It's gorgeous!
Things are happening fast at the Empress. You'll have to hurry to keep up!
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Thorley Theater
Cedar City, Utah
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Before 1914
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After 1945
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The Thorley Theater opened before 19141 and showed movies from about 1930 to 1945.2
The first showing (but not the world premiere) of Cecil B. DeMille's "Unioin Pacific" (1938) was at the Thorley Theater in Cedar City. The movie was filmed in Utah.3
1. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928, 1930-1931
2. "Rural 2", movie-theatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. "They Came This'A Way," by James V. D'Arc, , Mountainwest Magazine (March 1978), page 23 & "Chapter 7: The Early Twentieth Century: 1900 to 1940", A History of Iron County, by Janet Burton Seegmiller
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