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Odeon West End

Index Odeon West End

The Odeon West End, from 1930 to 1988 known as Leicester Square Theatre, was a cinema on the south side of Leicester Square, London. [1]

63 relations: Alice in Wonderland (1951 film), Anna Neagle, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Balliol College, Oxford, BFI London Film Festival, British Board of Film Classification, British Film Institute, Carry On Doctor, Crocodile Dundee, Edward Carrick, General Film Distributors, Gracie Fields, In a Monastery Garden (film), Interstellar (film), J. Arthur Rank, Jack Buchanan, Jack Hulbert, John Stuart (actor), Laurence Olivier, Leicester Square, Marie Kendall, Mary Poppins (film), Merton College, Oxford, National Asset Management Agency, Odeon Cinemas, Odeon Haymarket, Odeon Leicester Square, Odeon Marble Arch, Oscar Deutsch, Papillon (1973 film), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Radisson Hotels, Richard III (1955 film), RKO Pictures, Sally in Our Alley (1931 film), Sean Connery, Sex and the City (film), Shalako (film), Technicolor, That's a Good Girl, The Couch Trip, The Flame of New Orleans, The Happiest Millionaire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Longest Day (film), The Master (2012 film), The Pope Must Die, The Rank Organisation, Tommy (1975 film), Tommy Steele, ..., Toy Soldiers (1991 film), Twenty-One (1991 film), United Artists, Victoria the Great, Viennese Nights, Vivienne Segal, Walt Disney, Walter Gibbons, Warner Bros., West End of London, Westminster City Council, Wurlitzer, 70 mm film. Expand index (13 more) »

Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll.

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Anna Neagle

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was a popular English stage and film actress, singer and dancer.

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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 193013 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was a British photographer and film-maker.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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BFI London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the United Kingdom, running in the second half of October with cooperation from the British Film Institute.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Carry On Doctor

Carry On Doctor (1967) is the fifteenth in the series of ''Carry On'' films to be made.

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Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee (stylised as "Crocodile" Dundee in the U.S.) is a 1986 Australian-American action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City.

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Edward Carrick

Edward Carrick (born Edward Anthony Craig; 3 January 1905 – 21 January 1998) was an English art designer for film, an author and illustrator.

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General Film Distributors

General Film Distributors (GFD), later known as J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors and Rank Film Distributors Ltd., was a British film distribution company based in London.

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Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedian and star of both cinema and music hall.

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In a Monastery Garden (film)

In a Monastery Garden is a 1932 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring John Stuart, Hugh Williams, Alan Napier, and Frank Pettingell.

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Interstellar (film)

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan.

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J. Arthur Rank

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was a British industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation.

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Jack Buchanan

Walter John "Jack" Buchanan (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director.

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Jack Hulbert

John Norman "Jack" Hulbert (24 April 189225 March 1978) was a British actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy productions, and often working alongside his wife Cicely Courtneidge.

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John Stuart (actor)

John Stuart (born John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979), was a Scottish actor, and a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England.

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Marie Kendall

Marie Kendall (27 July 1873 – 5 May 1964) was a British music hall comedian and actress who had a successful career spanning 50 years.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Merton College, Oxford

Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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National Asset Management Agency

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA; Gníomhaireacht Náisiúnta um Bhainistíocht Sócmhainní) is a body created by the government of Ireland in late 2009, in response to the Irish financial crisis and the deflation of the Irish property bubble.

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Odeon Cinemas

Odeon is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway, which along with UCI Cinemas and Nordic Cinema Group is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group subsidiary of AMC Theatres.

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Odeon Haymarket

The Odeon Haymarket, preceded by Capitol Cinema (1925–1936) and Gaumont Haymarket (1937–1959), was a single-screen cinema with 600 seats, located at 50 Haymarket, London, and running from 1962 to 1996.

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Odeon Leicester Square

The Odeon Leicester Square is a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square in London, dominating the square with its huge black polished granite facade and high tower displaying its name.

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Odeon Marble Arch

The Odeon Marble Arch (known as the Regal 1928–1945) was a cinema located opposite Marble Arch monument at the top of Park Lane, with its main entrance on Edgware Road, London.

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Oscar Deutsch

Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941)Allen Eyles, ‘Deutsch, Oscar (1893–1941)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 was a British businessman.

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Papillon (1973 film)

Papillon is a 1973 historical period drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Radisson Hotels

Radisson Hotels is an international hotel company and a subsidiary of the Radisson Hotel Group.

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Richard III (1955 film)

Richard III is a 1955 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Sally in Our Alley (1931 film)

Sally in Our Alley is a 1931 British romantic comedy drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, and Florence Desmond.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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Sex and the City (film)

Sex and the City (advertised as Sex and the City: The Movie) is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Michael Patrick King in his feature film directorial debut, and a sequel to the 1998-2004 HBO comedy series of the same name (itself based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), dealing with their lives as single women in New York City.

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Shalako (film)

Shalako is a British 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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That's a Good Girl

That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson.

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The Couch Trip

The Couch Trip is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie.

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The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans is a 1941 comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Marlene Dietrich and Bruce Cabot in his first comedy role.

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The Happiest Millionaire

The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong.

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The Longest Day (film)

The Longest Day is a 1962 epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book The Longest Day (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II.

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The Master (2012 film)

The Master is a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams.

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The Pope Must Die

The Pope Must Die (U.S. alternate title The Pope Must Diet!) is a 1991 comedy film directed by Peter Richardson and released by Palace Pictures with the backing of Channel 4 Films.

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The Rank Organisation

The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April 1937.

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Tommy (1975 film)

Tommy is a 1975 British independent rock musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion.

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Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele, (born Thomas Hicks, 17 December 1936) is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.

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Toy Soldiers (1991 film)

Toy Soldiers is a 1991 American action drama film directed by Daniel Petrie Jr., with a screenplay by Petrie and David Koepp.

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Twenty-One (1991 film)

Twenty-One is a British-American drama film directed by Don Boyd and co-scripted by him with Zoë Heller.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla.

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Viennese Nights

Viennese Nights (1930) is an American all-talking pre-code musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Brothers.

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Vivienne Segal

Vivienne Sonia Segal (April 19, 1897 – December 29, 1992) was an American actress and singer.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter Gibbons

Walter Gibbons (April 2, 1954 – September 23, 1994) was an American record producer, early disco DJ and remixer.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer.

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70 mm film

70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for motion picture photography, with higher resolution than the standard 35 mm motion picture film format.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeon_West_End

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