The night was August 21, 1929 and the film was a little picture starring the great John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and the lovely Myrna Loy entitled The Desert Song. As the film began and the lights drew to a close at Bridgeport's newly constructed cinematic gem, the Ramova Theater, the flickering light reflected off the glorious starry, night sky-inspired murals, punctuating every undulating nuance of the theater's grand and illustrious ceiling. This is the way the nights went for decades to come. At The Ramova's peak in 1940 the theater premiered screen legend Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to the film's stars as well as hundreds of film fanatics across the Chicago area..
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