The Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, was selected as the theater for the premiere of Gone with the Wind, Friday, December 15, 1939.

" Management at Loew's Criterion in Manhattan kept theater doors open until 5am to oblige over 49, 000 attendees during the first premiere week of " In The Navy.

In 1948, the U. S. Supreme Court Paramount Decision ordered the major Hollywood movie studios – Loew's / MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros ./ First National, 20th Century Fox and RKO – to sell their theater chains and to eliminate certain anti-competitive practices.

Loews Theatres, aka Loews Incorporated ( originally Loew's ), founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew and Brantford Schwartz, was the oldest theater chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006.

Completed in early April 1921, Jules and Jay Allen's Pompeiian-style theater was sold to Loew's in 1922.

The Kings Theatre, formerly Loew's Kings Theatre, is a movie palace-type theater located at 1025 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.

With Loew's assistant Nicholas Schenck needed in New York City to help manage the large East Coast movie theater operations, Loew had to find a qualified executive to take charge of this new Los Angeles entity.

Due to the decline in new Broadway shows during the Great Depression, the theater became the Loew's Ziegfeld in 1933 and operated as a movie theater until showman Billy Rose bought it in 1944.

Built by the Loew's theater chain in partnership with United Artists the 2, 779 ( originally 3, 096 ) seat Spanish Baroque movie palace opened on March 17, 1928.

Loew's closed the theater on February 24, 1969 ; the final film shown was Play Dirty with Michael Caine.

South of Fordham Road, the palatial Loew's Paradise theater, one of the Loew's Wonder Theatres and at one time the largest movie theater in New York City, was constructed in 1929.

As of 2007, the Loew's Jersey presents a wide range of programming.

Loew's Inc. controlled more than 200 theaters, as well as the MGM studio ( whose films are currently distributed internationally by Fox ).

When Thalberg returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects and MGM resources, including its stars, due to his closeness to Nicholas Schenck, who was then president of MGM corporate parent Loew's Inc. Schenck, who was the true power and ultimate arbiter at the studio, usually backed up Thalberg.

Selznick's father-in-law, MGM chief Louis B. Mayer, offered in May 1938 to fund half of the movie's budget in return for a powerful package: 50 % of the profits would go to MGM, the movie's distribution would be credited to MGM's parent company, Loew's, Inc., and Loew's would receive 15 percent of the movie's gross income.

Early in 1962, WMGM, owned by Loew's, which then owned MGM, was sold to Storer Broadcasting.

With RKO and Warner Bros. ( soon to become Warner Bros .– First National ) joining Fox, Paramount, and Loew's / MGM as major players, the Big Five that would rule Hollywood — and thus much of world cinema — for decades to follow were now complete.

The studio system around which the industry had been organized for three decades finally expired in 1954, when Loew's, the last holdout, severed all operational ties with MGM.

Granlund was also first to introduce trailer material for an upcoming motion picture, using a slide technique to promote an upcoming film featuring Charlie Chaplin at Loew's Seventh Avenue Theatre in Harlem in 1914.

" He was also heavily influenced by an African-American dancer Dancing Dotson, whom he saw at Loew's Penn Theatre around 1929, and was briefly taught by Frank Harrington, an African-American tap specialist from New York.

In 1971 the orchestra moved to the newly-renovated Loew's Penn Theater, a move funded by H. J. Heinz II of the H. J. Heinz Company.

Fortunately for Mayer, Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered he had lost most of his fortune in the fall, 1929 stock market crash, putting an end to the Loew's merger.

SIMPP also fought to end ostensibly anti-competitive practices by the seven major film studios – Loew's, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros ./ First National – that controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films.

This would have required the razing of the historic Fox Theatre which would have been an especially great loss to the city after the downtown Loew's Grand Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1978.

Loew's Theatres Incorporated was founded in 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by entrepreneur Marcus Loew.

Loew's Incorporated served as distribution arm and parent company for the studio until the two were forced to separate by the 1948 U. S. Supreme Court ruling " United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc .".

In his book Me And A Guy Named Elvis, Jerry Schilling recounts the atmosphere inside Loew's State Theater in Memphis during the premiere screening: " The screams of the girls around me made it just about impossible to follow the story — this was the first time I'd seen an audience treat a film like it was a live concert, loudly responding to every move made and word uttered by their favorite star.

In 1954, New York radio station WMGM, which was then owned by Loew's Theatre Organization, signed Sissle as a disc jockey.

In 1928 the station was bought by the Loew's Theatre Organization.

By 1962, with 1010 WINS, 770 WABC, and 570 WMCA also playing predominantly rock and roll music, WMGM-1050 was sold by Loew's to Storer Broadcasting, which owned mostly TV stations, but also owned WIBG, a rock and roll radio station less than 100 miles away in Philadelphia.

Loew's Kings Theatre was designed by the architectural firm of Rapp and Rapp.

It was built and operated by the Loew's Theatres chain, and was one of the five " Loew's Wonder Theatres " in the New York metropolitan area.

The organ remained in good condition and was played one last time in 1974 prior to its being removed and donated by the Loew's company to New York City's Town Hall.

" Invited by Kallman to have an audition in his hotel room at Loew's Miami Beach, Pretty Ricky was immediately offered a record deal on the spot.

These five lavishly designed theaters were built by Loew's to establish its preeminence in film exhibition in the metropolitan New York City area.

Loew's theaters were found in cities from coast-to-coast, but primarily in East Coast and Midwest states.

The first airing of a " remote-control " broadcast came in 1924, when Loew's Theater publicist and WHN ( New York City ) station manager Nils Granlund leased telegraph lines from Western Union to provide the first link in what became called " Cabaret Broadcasting.

Standing on a subway grating outside the Loew's Lexington theatre, her skirt billows up from the wind underneath.

First Archivist of the United States R. D. W. Connor Receiving Film " Gone With The Wind " from Senator George of Georgia and Loew's Eastern Division Manager Carter Barron, 1941

For two years he was emcee with Fanchon and Marco at Fox West Coast in San Diego ; musical director and emcee with Paramount Publix Corporation, travelling to Seattle, Denver, Houston and Toledo, and finally worked on the Loew's circuit in Providence, Rhode Island and New York City from 1933 to 1935.

Besides the various interesting communications contained in this volume, ( among which may be particularized Suffrian's criticisms on Schönherr's generic arrangement of the Curculionidae, and an elaborate investigation, by the veteran Gravenhorst, of the affinities of the Brachyeltrous genus Quedius, the society have published a second volume of their yearly journal ( the Linnaea ) containing, beside the usual portion of matter concerning Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera, from the pens of Suffrian, Zeller and Loew, a considerable contribution to the knowledge of the almost microscopical and obscure Hymenopterous family Mymaridae by Prof. Förster ; as a supplement to which may be mentioned Loew's discovery of the hitherto unknown economy and prior states of these insects, communicated in the ' Entomologisches Zeitung '.

In landmark court decision, a judge blocked Loew's from removing the contents, including chandeliers, furniture, organ and projection equipment.