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Plaza Theater Barrio Viejo edge Tucson Arizona October 1936-2008 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Plaza Theater Barrio Viejo edge Tucson Arizona October 1936-2008 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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A detail of the previous shot, focusing on the Cine Plaza Theater (in blue).... more
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A detail of the previous shot, focusing on the Cine Plaza Theater (in blue).
Ted DeGrazia was manager of the Plaza in the mid 1930's as he married into a family of theater owners. He and his wife Alexandra had three children and subsequently divorced.
When the Plaza was about to be closed in 1968 I shot, edited and appeared on camera in a 5 minute film on the Plaza for KVOA TV, including a brief audio interview with Ted conducted by Jackie Sharkey.
Ted said that the movie house "stunk" but "he loved it."
The short will be on my future
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About David Lee Guss
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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