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Art Deco was a decorative design movement popular from the mid 1920's to about 1940. Since the Fox Tucson theater was designed in the late 1920's,... more
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Art Deco was a decorative design movement popular from the mid 1920's to about 1940. Since the Fox Tucson theater was designed in the late 1920's, Art Deco influenced this lighting fixture; which may be a refurbished original or a skillfully made reproduction. I strongly suspect it is an original.
John Wayne spent many an hour in this theater's (then closed) balcony watching newly released films, while taking a break from making movies at Old Tucson.
Conflicting stories have him sneaking into the 1,316 seat theater, or arriving in a chauffeured driven limo which parked in front of the theater.
The refurbished picture palace now seats nearly 1,200.
@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, JW, Art Deco theater light, Fox Tucson, Tucson, AZ, 2005
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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