Odeon Theatre

1473 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON M6R 1A6

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Previously operated by: 20th Century Theaters

Previous Names: Regal Theatre

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Odeon Theatre

Opened as the Odeon Theatre in 1914. It was never a part of the Odeon (Canada) circuit of theaters. It opened well prior to the formation of that circuit and was operated by 20th Century Theatres. It was last operated as the Regal Theatre which closed in 1980.

A supermarket, with apartments above, now stands on the site.

Contributed by Christopher Walczak

Recent comments (view all 14 comments)

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on April 6, 2009 at 9:51 pm

Tim, I am going to request that the moderators change the entry for this page to “Odeon Theater” and create a new page entry for the Odeon Lakeshore (aka Biltmore New Toronto) and that they move move Chuck 1231’s picture link to the new page.

telliott
telliott on April 8, 2009 at 9:45 am

Perfect. Now if they could only change the Odeon Danforth back to “single screen”.

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on April 8, 2009 at 11:04 am

They have since corrected that as well.

scruffywilber
scruffywilber on January 22, 2010 at 9:51 am

I beleive that this is the same photo that CWalczak posted on June 4 2008 and unfortunately the link no longer works.

A lot of the links to the “City of Toronto Archives” no longer work.

http://i46.tinypic.com/21d1i77.jpg

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on January 22, 2010 at 10:00 am

Yes, thanks; that is the picture. The Toronto Archives has a new numbering system and I too have been updating links as I find broken ones. However, as I noted in the original comment, I do not think it is a picture of the Odeon that is the subject of this particular listing based on the address that can been seen, and that building looks far too small to have seated nearly 800 people.

lovebldgs
lovebldgs on September 1, 2010 at 7:43 am

I research buildings and the Odeon Theatre in the City Archives photograph was 1558 Queen St. W. and first appeared in the Toronto City Directory in 1915 (so it was built in 1914). The building is still there and is now Harvest Fresh Farms grocery store.

SilentToronto
SilentToronto on October 24, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Hey guys, here’s a photo of the Odeon located at 1473 Queen St. W when it was known as the Regal: http://wp.me/pYW3L-jO

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on January 12, 2011 at 9:11 am

There is an interior photo of the Odeon’s interior on this webpage (scroll down to see it): View link

ScreenClassic
ScreenClassic on July 10, 2025 at 5:47 am

It seems ironic that a theatre called the Odeon, which one would think would naturally be part of the Odeon circuit (even though this one wasn’t), instead was associated with a circuit (i.e. 20th Century Theatres) that had ties to the Odeon Circuit’s main rival Famous Players.

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