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"The Trouble with Angels" Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre

Paint Your Wagon and Norwood Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre

Also on same program "Norwood" starring Glen Campbell

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"OUR MAN FLINT" Now Playing at THE DECATUR THEATRE

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Santa Claus Conquers The Martians SAT-SUN Matinee Only!

ALL SEATS 50 cents Take the kids! They'll enjoy it! You too!

In Space Blazing COLOR

Let's All Go To The Lobby

"SCREAMING EAGLES" Starts Monday at The Decatur Theatre

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"While the City Sleeps" Coming to The Decatur Theatre

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Robert Blake Visits The Decatur Theatre in 1947 for Republic Pictures "Red Ryder "

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Bobby Blake and his Big Show
Featuring " Sons of The Prairie"
-- Wednesday Aug 6, 1947
Stage Shows 4:30, 7:30, 9:30
Adm Adults 50 cents Children 25 cents




Robert Blake (Bobby Blake)

American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang series the age of five. As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained attention for his cute good looks and his lovable, if somewhat melancholy, personality. In 1940, he took on the stage name Bobby Blake (though he continued to use the name Mickey Gubitosi in the Our Gang series for another three years) and began playing child roles in a wide range of films. He gained a good deal of fame as the Indian sidekick Little Beaver in the Red Ryder series of Westerns. Though roles were sporadic as he grew to manhood, he was never long off the screen (except for a period of military service, 1954- 1956). But despite some fine work in films like Pork Chop Hill (1959) and Town Without Pity (1961), his career did not take off until his stunning portrayal of killer Perry Smith in In Cold Blood (1967). A number of telling performances in films of the next decade, stardom in a popular television series ("Baretta" (1975)), and several ruefully comic appearances as a guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962) made him a popular figure even as his personal difficulties increased. Consumed with anger over his treatment by his family and the studio as a child, he denigrated his early work, suffered bouts of difficulty with drugs, and became known as a difficult, perfectionistic person to work with. He quit his successful TV series "Hell Town" (1985) when his personal demons became overwhelming. After a self-imposed exile of nearly eight years, during which he struggled to right his life, he successfully returned to films and television work, appearing renewed and more confident in himself and his work. But in 2001, the murder of his wife Bonnie Bakley thrust Blake into the limelight in a different way. Admittedly having married Bakley through the coercion of her pregnancy, a routine Bakley had apparently tried with various other celebrities, Blake made no denial of his distaste for the woman, but was by all accounts thrilled with the daughter born to them. Blake was arrested for his wife's murder, but the presumption of innocence trumped what jurors believed to be flimsy evidence, and Blake was acquitted in a trial which made worldwide headlines. Reportedly broke from legal costs, Blake indicated hopefulness that he might be allowed to return to acting work.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver
From: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086706/bio

The Decatur Theatre

The Decatur Theatre
Decatur, GA
circa 1967

On the marquee this day "BRIGHTY of The Grand Canyon" with Joseph Cotton.

The Decatur Theatre

This is my Christmas train layout.
It is based on The Decatur Theatre at night in the 1950's

"GOOD NEWS" Movie ad For The Decatur Theatre

The Decatur Theatre Grand Opening in 1940

Coming Soon to The Decatur Theatre

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---Don't miss The Biggest Bond of All--- "THUNDERBALL" ------------------------COMING SOON TO THE DECATUR THEATRE-

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The Decatur Theatre in Jan. 1961

--Playing at The Decatur Theatre this day was BUTTERFIELD 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor
and Laurence Harvey--

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ELVIS PRESLEY in KING CREOLE at THE DECATUR THEATRE

----See it in delightful Air-Conditioned Comfort----

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"SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF" - NOW PLAYING at THE DECATUR THEATRE

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----Be sure to visit The Concession Stand in the lobby for assorted candies, popcorn and your favorite beverage. ----

BONNIE and CLYDE at The Decatur Theatre

----NOW PLAYING AT THE DECATUR THEATRE----

---- Please visit The Concession Stand in the lobby, where you'll find a wide variety of delicious foods and drinks. ----

Steve McQueen's "BULLITT" Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre

Steve McQueen works for the truth in BULLITT at The Decatur Theatre
---NOW PLAYING AT THE DECATUR THEATRE---RATED M - Suggested for Mature Audiences


----Be sure to visit The Concession Stand in the lobby for assorted candies, popcorn and your favorite beverage. ----

A SOLAR PRODUCTION
Warner Bros - Seven Arts
WB7

Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre : "GOLDFINGER"

----NOW PLAYING AT THE DECATUR THEATRE----

Please visit The Concession Stand in the lobby, where you'll find a wide variety of delicious foods and drinks.

Girls! Girls! Girls! Elvis Presley at The Decatur Theatre

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Be sure to visit The Concession Stand in the lobby for assorted candies, popcorn and your favorite beverage.

THUNDER ROAD played at The Decatur Theatre Back in Oct. of 58.

Robert Mitchum Blasts onto the Screen !




Thunder Road played at The Decatur Theatre back in Oct. of 58.
Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 drama-crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself. He also co-wrote (with Don Raye) the theme song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road".

The film became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some Southeastern markets through the 1970s and 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=133672


Thunder Road played at The Decatur Theatre from Oct 16 thru Oct 18, 1958.

The Bravados Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre

A Labor Day Treat !
The Finest Featur Your Ever Hope to See!
Gregory Peck in THE BRAVADOS
COLOR by DE LUXE
CinemaScope
See It in Delightful Air-Conditioned Comfort

The Fly Now Playing at The Decatur Theatre

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MUNSTER GO HOME & THE GHOST and MR. CHICKEN

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CALL ME BWANA - BOB HOPE / ANITA EKBERG

HARRY SALTZMAN and ALBERT R. BROCCOLI Presents CALL ME BWANA.
Can you belive these two did this comedy.
These are the guys that started the James Bond movies.

NOW at The Decatur Theatre

Robert Mitchum in Man With The Gun - NOW at The Decatur Theatre

Lee Marvin gives it to you "POINT BLANK"

"POINT BLANK" NOW PLAYING AT THE DECATUR THEATRE

The Flim-Flam Man

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WALT DISNEY'S "SO DEAR TO MY HEART"

Decatur, GA. 1964


"SO DEAR TO MY HEART" played at The Decatur Theatre from Dec.10, 1964 to Dec.24, 1964
"Father Goose" started Christmas Day 1964.

Caption for Dec. 64 (top) photo:
Decatur, GA.
More than 500 persons turned out to see the first Sunday movie in Decatur in 7 years.
The film was Walt Disney's "So Dear to My Heart." The Decatur City Commission lifted the
ban on Sunday movies more than a week ago, but owner Fred Storey decided to open for
Sunday audiences with the Disney picture. Sunday movies have been prohibited in Decatur
for more than 18 years. For a brief period in 1957 the ban was lifted.

Christmas Day Attraction "FATHER GOOSE"

A Special Premiere Presentation Christmas Attraction
Starts Christmas Day 1964