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Bob Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres President, Dies at 89
Bob Laemmle, who ran Laemmle Theatres until his son Greg took over, has died at 89.
Laemmle Theatres are an integral part of L.A.’s exhibition community, showing a mix of first-run independent and foreign-language films as well as classics and re-releases at the Royal in West. “It’s 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 L.A. for generations, and those films educate and inspire people,” Greg Laemmle told the Santa Monica Daily Press when the doc was released. Past award recipients include Heal the Bay, the Venice Family Clinic, the Westside Food Bank, Tree People, Union Station Homeless Services, the Trust for Public Land, and many others.
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