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Question of the Day | 11/10/2008 11:00 pm

What is the first movie you ever saw in a movie theater? What do you remember about it?

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Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney | 11/10/2008 11:00 pm

Why Joan Ganz Cooney Remembers This Clark Gable, Charles Laughton Film

The first movie I remember was "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. I spent much of the 90 minutes crouched in fear underneath my seat.

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Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 11/10/2008 11:00 pm

Which Movie Changed Liz Smith's Life?

My God, it’s the opening of my memoir, Natural Blonde. It was my first hint of racial prejudice because our black maid, Dott, had to sit in a balcony but if she accompanied a white child, she didn’t (Fort Worth, TX, circa 1928). I insisted we sit in the balcony with the "colored" people. The movie starred a little-known stage star, Lenore Ulric. She played a half Eskimo-half white demented girl who fell into a crack in the ice and died as she flitted by dogsled between Nome and the igloos. It made a lasting impression on me. I cried all the way home because her dogs died too. "Shhh, it’s only a movie!" said Dott. God bless her, she was the first black person who paid any attention to me, maybe the first person who really loved me. It was Dott, not the movie, that informed my early life.

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Rosemary Butt
Either Disneys Song of the South or Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind, can’t remember, but loved the music in South and Wind
By Rosemary Butt on 11/13/2008 6:43 pm
Susan B
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown” with Debbie Reynolds. My parents dragged me to one of the first Cinerama’s in Northern California to see this musical. I remember being overwhelmed by the size and “surround” quality of the screen. But it launched (as it were) my lifelong interest/obsession with the Titanic. Strange. Must’ve been 7 or so.
By Susan B on 11/14/2008 8:07 pm
LadyBella Bella
Jaws. It was 1975 & I was just 7 years old. I had to be carried out of the theater and didn’t go to the beach for 2 years. I STILL get chills when I see this movie. Great memory!
By LadyBella Bella on 11/15/2008 11:45 am
Eve Fulton
My first movie that I remember was seen in White Plains New York, It was THEM. A horror movie about giant ants, I still remember it to this day. I still love movies. Like Candis, I was a 40 year old Mom and loved the Disney stuff as well. Still like some of it. Happy viewing!
By Eve Fulton on 11/15/2008 12:26 pm
Denise L
My Grandmother took us to see Judy Garland in the movie with the soundtrack “Over the Rainbow”. I was impressed. And I just remembered that - because I was going to put “Pork Chop Hill” which was a matinee on a Sat afternoon with my friends and I remember spending the whole thing hiding in the bathroom cause it was gross. But my parents took us to the drive-in in our pj’s every weekend and we loved it just cant remember any of the movies, probably cause we 3 kids always went to sleep.
By Denise L on 11/16/2008 3:11 am
Andromeda Jakes
My, My, I have no idea. All I remember is going to the Movies for like $.25 and you could stay all day. No clearing of the theater. My mom did not like us children going to the Movies. But for some reason it was ok on certain Sat. Ummmmm. Wonder why. No problem. The movie theather has now been restored.
By Andromeda Jakes on 11/16/2008 8:05 pm
Diana T
I think my first movie was either Dumbo or Snow White. All I know is that I remember being scared when Snow White was running through the animated Disney forest.
By Diana T on 11/17/2008 12:15 am
Sybelle J
One of the Peter Sellers’ Pink Panther movies back in the 70’s. It was a big deal because my cousin and I took the bus into The City (lol or so we thought it was). We spent the afternoon shopping at Woolworths. Bought this big ole pink gaudy tube of pink bubblegum lipgloss.
By Sybelle J on 11/17/2008 12:24 pm
Saj Rising
I remember a few when I was very, very young. I was frightened of the folding seats, I sat on the edge of my seat or stood up, holding the back of the seat in front of me. I saw Bambi (re release of 1957), Old Yeller (1957) Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and the Ten Commandments (1956). Scariest scene? water turning into blood during the Ten Commandments…..
By Saj Rising on 11/18/2008 7:44 pm
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