The Saenger Theatre is a historic

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ...

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff, officially the City of Pine Bluff, is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, tenth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County. The population of the city wa ...

. Located at West Second Ave. and Pine St. on the southeast corner, it was added to the

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in 1995. Built in 1924 to a design by Emile Weil, it is a Classical Revival brick building with an ornate interior that was last restyled in 1937. It is one of only a handful of Saenger

movie palaces A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is a large, elaborately decorated movie theater built from the 1910s to the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930. Wi ...

that remain.

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{{commons category, Saenger Theater (Pine Bluff, Arkansas) Brick buildings and structures in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Cinemas and movie theaters in Arkansas Emile Weil buildings Former cinemas in the United States Movie palaces National Register of Historic Places in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Saenger theatres Theatres completed in 1924 Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas

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