"Crowd waiting in line Saenger Theatres, Dolores Del Rio premier, Sunday."

ID: 5087 ~ Source: Image retrieved from The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Waldemar S. Nelson, 2003.0182.366. ~ Creator: John Tibule Mendes, 1888-1965 (photographer).

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View of a large crowd gathered outside of the Saenger Theatre on June 14, 1929. The movie, Evangeline, starring Dolores Del Rio, premiered at this Canal Street location that day. Part of the Southern Railway Station is seen at the left and buildings along the 100 block of North Rampart Street are also visible.

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Saenger Theater

By Jesse Chicco, Brett Schelsinger, Carolyn Heneghan, David Patton & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

The Saenger Theatre witnessed and mediated the rise and fall of several different forms of entertainment, including vaudeville, jazz and orchestral music, and motion pictures in its first decades on…