Cinema Theatre
125 Danbury Road,
Ridgefield,
CT
06877
125 Danbury Road,
Ridgefield,
CT
06877
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Previously operated by: Jerry Lewis Cinemas
Previous Names: Jerry Lewis Cinema, Ridgefield Cinema
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Located in Copps Hill Plaza Shopping Center. Opened as the Jerry Lewis Cinema in 1972. It was soon taken over by new operators and renamed Ridgefield Cinema. This first run house in the 1980’s was run or booked by a company called Mini Theatres. It was closed in August 1990.
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The Ridgefield Cinema — if it’s the one I’m thinking of (and it must be because it was the only one open in Ridgefield in the 80s) — was not a classic theater. It was built as part of the Copps Hill Plaza shopping center in the early 1970s. The center was anchored by a W.T. Grant, which soon went out of business and was replaced by Caldor and, in turn, Kohl’s, and a Stop & Shop supermarket. The theater closed in the 1980s and its space was used — ironically — by a Blockbuster Video. Two years ago, in a major reconstruction of the shopping center, the entire leg of stores that included the old theater was demolished to permit Stop & Shop to increase parking and expand to a Super Stop & Shop. Smaller stores that remained were moved to a new satellite building. All traces of the theater are gone, but I recall it being a totally nondescript, charmless, beige box. But I did see Mel Brooks' “Blazing Saddles” and Woody Allen’s “Love & Death” there.
I found two references in Jack Sanders' Ridgefield (CT) Time Line 1900s:
1976 – The owner of the Ridgefield Cinema at Copps Hill Plaza promises in December that he won’t book any more X-rated movies after a storm of protest over showing of Emmanuelle.
1990 – Ridgefield Cinema, the town’s last movie house, closes in August.
(See “Ridgefield Playhouse” for Ridgefield’s only other theater.)
The map that was added showing this theater’s former location is way off. It should be in the grey area just to the south of Copps Hill Rd and just to the west of Danbury Rd – Rt 35, which is the Copps Hill Shopping Center.
The address was 125 Danbury Road.
The current map is correct.