12-582: Mayfair Theatre may refer to: Fox Theatre (Portland, Oregon) , a demolished theater in Portland previously named Mayfair Theatre Mayfair Music Hall , also known as Mayfair Theatre, a former vaudeville theater in Santa Monica, California, opened 1913 Mayfair Theatre, Baltimore , a vacant theater structure in Baltimore, opened in 1941 Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin ,
24-682: A live performance venue in Dunedin, New Zealand, opened 1914 Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa , the oldest active movie theater in Ottawa, opened 1932 Mayfair Theatre, Sydney , movie theatre in Australia, closed 1979 Sony Hall , a former Broadway house previously named Mayfair Theatre opened 1938 May Fair Theatre , in The May Fair Hotel, London Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
36-595: A marquee and talking equipment, but only operated the venue for two years due to the Great Depression. Under the J. J. Parker chain, the theatre was renamed the Mayfair. It hosted double features and road show stage performances The Mayfair closed in October 1953 to undergo a nine-month restoration, becoming part of Fox West Coast Theatre's CinemaScope line of movie theaters. The local architectural firm Dougan and Heims oversaw
48-590: A package wrapper at Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills , she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in 1951. She first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who is intrigued by Marlon Brando in The Wild One . The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead , and with Dale Robertson in Sitting Bull , and the year after that as Fredric March 's daughter in
60-583: The Heilig , Rialto , and Mayfair ) was a theatre building located at the intersection of Southwest Broadway and Taylor Street in Portland, Oregon , in the United States. The Heilig auditorium was designed by E. W. Houghton and opened on July 22, 1910. The theatre was initially used as an opera house, and notably staged a production of Zandonai's Conchita starring soprano Tarquinia Tarquini in 1912. The theatre
72-566: The "Million Dollar" Fox Theatre, opened on August 12, 1954. It featured the second largest screen in the United States (two feet smaller than the screen at the Roxy Theatre in New York City). The theatre opened to the public the following day (August 13), screening Broken Lance (1954). The Fox stopped screening films regularly in September 1990, then hosted occasional special events before
84-404: The building's conversion. To promote the theatre's reopening, 20th Century Fox chartered an airplane and brought celebrities to Portland, including Rex Allen , Edward Arnold , Van Heflin , Rita Moreno , Mary Murphy , Johnnie Ray, and Mamie Van Doren . City and state officials, along with members of the public, greeted the celebrities at Portland International Airport . The venue, billed as
96-476: The thriller The Desperate Hours , which also starred Humphrey Bogart . She co-starred with actor-director Ray Milland in his Western A Man Alone . That was one of her best roles; another was in the film she made the following year for Joseph Losey , The Intimate Stranger (1956). Murphy co-starred with James Franciscus and James Philbrook in the 1961 CBS crime adventure-drama series The Investigators . Among her other television appearances, she
108-516: The title Mayfair Theatre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayfair_Theatre&oldid=1099024241 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fox Theatre (Portland, Oregon) The Fox Theatre (formerly known as
120-827: The venue was demolished in 1997. The block is now occupied by the Fox Tower . Mary Murphy (actress) Mary Murphy (January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011) was an American film and television actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Murphy was born in Washington, D.C. , and was the second of three children. She spent part of her early childhood in Rocky River, Ohio , a westside Cleveland, Ohio suburb. Her father, James Victor Murphy, died in 1940. Shortly afterwards, she and her mother moved to Southern California . She attended University High School in West Los Angeles. While working as
132-559: Was a frequent stop for the Lambardi Grand Opera Company; a touring opera company based out of California that was founded by impresario Mario Lambardi . The Boston Opera Company toured to the theatre in 1916; giving a performance of L'amore dei tre re starring soprano Maggie Teyte . In 1929, the Paramount-Publix chain began leasing the theatre and showing double feature film and vaudeville shows. The company added
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#1732851409147144-715: Was featured in the title role of defendant Eleanor Corbin in the 1962 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Glamorous Ghost". She also appeared in dozens of other television series including The Lloyd Bridges Show , The Tab Hunter Show , Wagon Train , I Spy , The Outer Limits , The Fugitive , and Ironside . She was absent from the big screen for seven years before resuming her film career in 1972 with Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner . On June 3, 1956, Murphy married actor Dale Robertson in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage
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