The Paramount was sometimes a de-facto art house, since there was no full-time art house in Newport. Often, in the 1950s, an art-house feature could be scheduled for the bottom of a double bill.
This was Robert Bresson’s first feature, 1943, originally titled “Les anges du péché.” Seems peculiar that the director’s name is not mentioned in the ad.
I remember chaperoning with others a special school screening here in the 1970s of Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth.” La Salle Academy English department. I remember students laughing a lot and being rowdy.
The book “The Lost Villages of Scituate (RI)” by Raymond A. Wolf narrates the history of the post-1915 leveling of several villages for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir which provides water to the Providence metropolitan area. It is in the “Images of America” series.
Italian film as second feature.
Should be LOEW’S Paramount, not “Lowe’s”.
You can see the Paramount toward the bottom, with the marquee still visible as well as the backdrop tower behind the stage.
The Paramount was sometimes a de-facto art house, since there was no full-time art house in Newport. Often, in the 1950s, an art-house feature could be scheduled for the bottom of a double bill.
Both good films, but a very strange pairing of an Italian soaper with a Hollywood musical.
The theatre closed in 1960; the marquee was moved in 1972 (see another photo).
Across from rear trolley.
Shortly after I had seen it in nearby Providence. My first film at age 5.
“La soif des hommes”, 1950, by Serge de Poligny.
This was Robert Bresson’s first feature, 1943, originally titled “Les anges du péché.” Seems peculiar that the director’s name is not mentioned in the ad.
Ralph Bellamy, “Smashing the Spy Ring” - 1938.
In 1946.
In 1954.
In 1946.
In 1937.
As the Stanley.
I loved that entranceway. This was the movie theatre I was taken to at age 5 in 1947 to see my first movie, “Song of the South.”
Year uncertain.
“Whistle Down the Wind” and One, Two, Three.“ Circa 1962.
“Whistle Down the Wind” and One, Two, Three."
I remember chaperoning with others a special school screening here in the 1970s of Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth.” La Salle Academy English department. I remember students laughing a lot and being rowdy.
This village and others were flooded for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir post-1915.
The book “The Lost Villages of Scituate (RI)” by Raymond A. Wolf narrates the history of the post-1915 leveling of several villages for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir which provides water to the Providence metropolitan area. It is in the “Images of America” series.
The dance hall’s location was on Kent Dam Road, now called Tunk Hill Road.
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”