Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1989
This is a Thomas & Benacci Ltd postcard printed in the EEC. It shows a bird’s eye view of Piccadilly Circus looking west along Piccadilly. It is summer 1989 and the Cannon Piccadilly is showing the British film “White Mischief”. It starred Charles Dance and Greta Scacchi and was based on the 1941 Happy Valley murder in Kenya, jealousy and adultery amongst the ex-pats. The Cannon Piccadilly was originally the first of the Monseigneur News Theatres which opened in the basement of the Monseigneur Restaurant on 1st November 1934, the year that the London Pavilion became a cinema. It was taken over in 1960 by the Jacey cinemas chain and began showing sexploitation films. In 1972 the Cinecenta company took over and in 1979 the cinema was divided to accommodate two screens and continued to show sex films. In the early 1980s the Cannon cinema chain acquired the site and later MGM and ABC who decided to close the cinema on 8th July 2001.
Piccadilly Circus: 1989
This is a Thomas & Benacci Ltd postcard printed in the EEC. It shows a bird’s eye view of Piccadilly Circus looking west along Piccadilly. It is summer 1989 and the Cannon Piccadilly is showing the British film “White Mischief”. It starred Charles Dance and Greta Scacchi and was based on the 1941 Happy Valley murder in Kenya, jealousy and adultery amongst the ex-pats. The Cannon Piccadilly was originally the first of the Monseigneur News Theatres which opened in the basement of the Monseigneur Restaurant on 1st November 1934, the year that the London Pavilion became a cinema. It was taken over in 1960 by the Jacey cinemas chain and began showing sexploitation films. In 1972 the Cinecenta company took over and in 1979 the cinema was divided to accommodate two screens and continued to show sex films. In the early 1980s the Cannon cinema chain acquired the site and later MGM and ABC who decided to close the cinema on 8th July 2001.