VIDEO: Tour Brooklyn's Magnificently Restored Kings Theatre

Brooklyn's Loew's Kings Theatre was one of the country's great opulent movie palaces when it opened just before the stock market crash of 1929.

Deemed as one of the five original "Loew's Wonder Theatres," the showplace was designed by architectural masters Rapp & Rapp with interior design by Harold W. Rambusch. The premiere audience enjoyed a screening of Dolores del Rio in EVANGELINE, as well as onstage performances by Wesley Eddy & His Kings of Syncopation and The Chester Hales Girls.

Great vaudevillians like Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante played the Kings, but as the Depression endured and vaudeville declined, the theatre limited its offerings to feature films. The popularity of multiplexes shrunk the venue's appeal as a place for first-run films and the Kings began running low-budget features until officially closing in 1977.

But after a $95 million dollar restoration to the original 1929 design, and the inclusion of new state-of-the-art building systems providing more comfort for patrons and technically advanced sound and lighting, the Kings Theater is once again a stylish showplace.

Visit kingstheatre.com for the upcoming schedule of live performances, and take a video tour, as recently shown on CBS This Morning. (Click photo below for link)