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unusual facts about General Cinema



Franklin Mills

AMC Theatres, opened 1998 as General Cinema on former Sears Catalog Oulet site, renamed to AMC in 2002

Greengate Centre

It was built in 1977 and was anchored by a General Cinema triple-screen movie theater, later to become part of Carmike Cinemas.


see also

General Cinema Corporation

Starting in the 1960s General Cinema diversified into other businesses; at times they owned the department store Neiman Marcus, the publisher Harcourt Brace, radio stations in several major markets (notably WEFM in Chicago, WZGC in Atlanta, WGCL in Cleveland, and WIFI in Philadelphia), and TV station WCIX in Miami.

Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal

In 1936, he was one of the main investors in J. Arthur Rank's General Cinema Finance Corporation, the company which one year later would become the British film industry's most important company, The Rank Organisation.