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Life Theater
The Life Theater, currently the Teofilo Villonco Building is a building in Quiapo, Manila. The building used to be movie house. The building was designed by Pablo Antonio. During its operational years as a move house, the Life Theater was reserved for blockbuster movies due to its large audience capacity and the theater had an air-conditioning system. The building is owned Remy Villongco of Malabon, son of Dr. Teofilo Villonco, whose family is involved in the theater industry.
== History ==
Erected in 1941, Life Theater was designed in Art Deco style. The theater was meant to show only Tagalog films. ''Ang Maestra'' which wheres Rosa del Rosario and Rogelio dela Rosa starred, was the first movie showed upon the theater's opening. The theater was destroyed following the aftermath of World War II. It was rebuilt in 1946 with an upgraded seating capacity of 1,144. The Hollywood film, ''A Thousand and One Nights'' was the first movie showed when the theater reopened. The theater continues to feature several films, both in English and Tagalog until the mid-1950s when Sampaguita Pictures took over the theater.〔
The Life Theater was owned by Romeo Villonco, who continued his father, Dr. Teofilo Villonco's enterprise. The Palace Theater located along Ronquillo Street in Quiapo was owned by the Villoncos. The Villoncos, together with the De Leon and Navoa families originally runs the LVN Studios. The three letters of the studios represents the three families.〔
Premieres were held in this venue when movie stars were dressed by famous couturiers, sometimes dressed up the characters they were portrayed in the movie. The actors and actresses were transported to the theater by a new air-conditioned bus owned by Sampaguita pictures causing heavy traffic build-up on nearby roads.〔
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