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Maurice, Edward, and Barney Dubinsky would move from a life of traveling tent shows to the silver screen, building one of Kansas City’s largest companies along the way, and spawning the career of a Broadway legend.
Maurice, Edward, and Barney Dubinsky would move from a life of traveling tent shows to the silver screen, building one of Kansas City's largest companies along the way, and spawning the career of a Broadway legend.
AMC Theatres was founded in 1920 by Maurice, William, Irvin, Edward, and Barney Dubinsky, sons of Russian Jewish immigrants Simon and Sarah Dubinsky. The Dubinsky brothers had been traveling the Midwest performing melodramas and tent shows with actress Jeanne Eagels.
Stanley Durwood was born in Kansas City on August 5, 1920. In that same year, his father, Edward Dubinsky, and uncles Maurice and Barney Dubinsky purchased the Regent Theater, which was one of the early movie houses in Kansas City.
In 1920, Durwood's father and uncles, Edward, Barney, and Maurice Dubinsky, bought a Kansas City movie theater which they called Regent Theater. The brothers built up the theatre chain over the next decade; by 1932 the company owned 40 theaters in Missouri and Kansas. [5]
For some time prior to May 9, 1946, Edward D. Durwood and two of his children, Stanley H. Durwood and Marjorie Beth Grant, were engaged in the operation of a number of theaters in partnership with Irwin Dubinsky, H. W. Dubinsky and Barney Dubinsky, all younger brothers of Edward D. Durwood.
A dispute arose concerning the ownership of the theatrical properties, and in an effort to establish their interest Barney, H. W. and Irwin Dubinsky brought suit against Edward D. Durwood, Stanley H. Durwood, Marjorie Grant and several corporations which held the title to, or leases of, some of the theatrical properties.
