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Film Theatre, Michigan Theater and Redford Theatre
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Looking Back
March 1956
Step back in time to see what our movie palaces were presenting in March 1956. Also included is interesting history about other area movie theaters. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
Popular
movies at the Redford included the melodramatic All
That Heaven Allows (with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson), The
Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Gary Cooper), and The
Rains of Ranchipur (Lana Turner). On Saturday afternoons, Special
Kiddie Cartoon Parties promised "Loads of Cartoons...Lots of Fun!"
On
March 1, the Fox Theatre presented the musical Carousel,
which had a 50th anniversary showing at the Redford on March 17 and 18,
2006. Carousel was described as the first motion picture in the
new "richer, deeper, clearer" CinemaScope 55 format. Interestingly, another
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!
(1955) continued at the United Artists as "the first motion picture produced
in Todd-AO [a 70-mm widescreen format]...the most revolutionary of all
screen inventions!"
The
auditorium of the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted a 1955 German film
about World War II, The
Devil's General. Also in the auditorium was the premiere of Summer
Cinderella by the Grass Roots Opera group. Pro Musica Antiqua performed
medieval, renaissance and baroque music on period instruments.
The
Michigan Theater had the good luck to be showing The
Rose Tattoo the week that the film's star, Anna Magnani, won a
Best Actress Oscar for her performance. A week later, the Michigan hosted
the other Oscar-winning lead performance of 1955—Ernest Borgnine
in Marty.
Meanwhile, Ann Arbor area moviegoers got an early start on summer with
the opening of the Ypsi-Ann and Scio Drive-In Theatres on March 16.
