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Thorley Theatre

Cedar City UT

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Record #26067  
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Information for this tour was contributed by Grant Smith.

The Thorley Theater opened before 1914 (1) and showed movies from about 1930 to 1945. (2)

The first showing (but not the world premiere) of Cecil B. DeMille's "Unioin Pacific" (1938) was at the Thorley Theater in Cedar City. The movie was filmed in Utah. (3)


1. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928, 1930-1931
2. "Rural 2", movie-theatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. "They Came This'A Way," by James V. D'Arc, , Mountainwest Magazine (March 1978), page 23 & "Chapter 7: The Early Twentieth Century: 1900 to 1940", A History of Iron County, by Janet Burton Seegmiller



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