Biograph Theater
Theater Location: 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657
Theater Open Date: 1914
Theater Status: Open
Cast Affiliations
Anticipation Players
Absent Friends
The Voyeuristic Intentions
History
The Biograph Theater opened in 1914 with 942 seats on a single floor.
This Lincoln Park neighborhood landmark is best known by Chicagoans as the place where John Dillinger was shot and killed on July 22, 1934 after attending a screening of “Manhattan Melodrama”.
The historic Biograph Theater continued to show movies until 2001.
The Biograph Theater was purchased by the legitimate Victory Gardens Theatre company in 2004. The interior has been entirely rebuilt, from a venue which could originally seat over 900 to 299 today. The facade was repaired and cleaned and the marquee was rebuilt to resemble it’s original appearance. The Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph opened on September 28th, 2006.
The exterior of the Biograph was retrofitted to look like it did in 1934 for the filming of the movie, PUBLIC ENEMIES starring Johnny Depp. Since the interior had been altered so drastically, the interior of the Portage Theater in the Portage Park neighborhood was used for the interior shooting.
External Links
Cinema Treasures [1]
