{"id":137179,"date":"2025-01-10T03:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/laemmle-theatres-owner-was-89\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T03:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:19:26","slug":"laemmle-theatres-owner-was-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/laemmle-theatres-owner-was-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Laemmle Theatres Owner Was 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/robert-laemmle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-laemmle\" data-tag=\"robert-laemmle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Laemmle<\/a>, the proprietor and former president of California\u2019s arthouse chain <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/laemmle-theatres\/\">Laemmle Theaters<\/a>, has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline confirms that Robert died on Thursday at Berkley East Healthcare Center in Santa Monica. A reason for demise was not instantly identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRobert\u2019s son Greg Laemmle, who took over as Laemmle Theatres president in 2004, advised the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2025-01-09\/robert-laemmle-son-of-theater-chain-co-founder-dies-at-89-obituary\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> his father was hospitalized after struggling a fall at his Santa Monica dwelling on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn Sept. 5, 1935 in Paris, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bob-laemmle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-laemmle\" data-tag=\"bob-laemmle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Laemmle<\/a> immigrated to the United States together with his household in 1938, the identical 12 months his father Max and uncle Kurt Laemmle launched their first cinemas in Highland Park. Their uncle Carl Laemmle beforehand co-founded <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/universal-pictures\/\">Universal Pictures<\/a> in 1912.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRobert joined the household enterprise in 1961 earlier than ultimately taking on for his father. Although he retired in 2004, Robert continued going into the workplace till 2020 and working the enterprise together with his son Greg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere really has been a Laemmle in the film business ever since there has been a film business,\u201d Greg advised <a href=\"https:\/\/smdp.com\/lifestyle\/new-film-tells-the-story-of-la-institution-laemmle-theaters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Santa Monica Daily News<\/a> in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty rare to have a three generational family business and I think we occupy a unique, interesting place in Los Angeles: being the family that has been bringing foreign films to LA for generations, and those films educate and inspire people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRobert is survived by his spouse Michelle and his youngsters Greg, Jessica, Yvonne, Michelle, David, Carri, Mitchell, Maitland and Robert, in addition to 13 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Robert Laemmle, the proprietor and former president of California\u2019s arthouse chain Laemmle Theaters, has died. He was 89. Deadline confirms that Robert died on Thursday at Berkley East Healthcare Center in Santa Monica. A reason for demise was not instantly identified. Robert\u2019s son Greg Laemmle, who took over as Laemmle Theatres president in 2004, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8261,1683,8262],"class_list":{"0":"post-137179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-laemmle","9":"tag-owner","10":"tag-theatres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}