Art houses & film societies / Highland Park / Woodward
Krim Theatre
Closed – archive entry · 1941–1990
Highland Park's 760-seat Streamline Moderne cinema on Woodward, next to the Uptown. In the 1950s it was an art house, and its nearly year-long run of Marlon Brando's Julius Caesar out-grossed most downtown palaces.
Quick facts
- Opened
- 1941
- Closed
- 1990
- Architect
- Charles N. Agree
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- Seats
- 760
02 / The story of this place
Make time for these
The Krim opened on April 26, 1941, with The Sea Hawk and A Star is Born, a 760-seat Streamline Moderne house by Charles N. Agree next to the Uptown on Woodward. Through most of the 1950s it was one of the area's art and foreign-film houses. Its nearly year-long run of Marlon Brando's Julius Caesar out-grossed most downtown palaces. Renamed the Trans-Lux Krim, it turned to adult films in the 1970s and 1980s. The Revival Tabernacle church bought it in 1990.
- A 760-seat Streamline Moderne house from 1941
- An art and foreign-film house in the 1950s
- A nearly year-long run of Julius Caesar
Plan your visit
The Revival Tabernacle church bought the Krim in 1990. For art-house and foreign films today, see the cinemas in our guide that are still open.
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