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...Brattle housed theatricals, plays and performances throughout the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1930s and 40s, the building was rented by professional theater companies where actors such as Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, Jessica Tandy and Luise Rainer graced its stage. In 1953, Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. took over the Brattle and converted it into one of the first repertory cinemas...
Harvey, who had been exposed to French cinema at the Cinematheque while studying at the Sorbonne as a Fulbright scholar, brought a distinctly international flavor to the Brattle during a time when most Americans had seen very few non-Hollywood films. Harvey and Haliday helped rekindle interest in American classics that had long been forgotten. They also established the important Janus Films, Inc., the main distributor of avant-garde films in the U.S. until 1966, when it was forced to close after too many directors were snatched up by Hollywood. Harvey and Haliday brilliantly juxtaposed old Hollywood classics...
...beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney Greenstreet. That's life, and it's all made possible by Cyrus Harvey and Bryant Haliday who own Brattle Enterprises...
...Harvey and Haliday turn the moviehouse-coffee house which they started in 1953 into the boutique empire which they possess in 1967? Largely by filling their movie house with movies which they themselves imported. Their company, Janus Films, was the first to import Fellini, Antonioni, and Bergman. Last year, they sold Janus Films (for quite a handsome profit) partly because they were being squeezed out by the big companies, and partly because buying films was "an ulcer business." "You had to make your decision two minutes after you saw the film, and you never knew whether it would...
...Haliday did not foresee any major change in the present scheduling procedures of the two movie houses. The Brattle now presents mainly foreign and "art" films while the UT specializes in second-run Hollywood offerings...