Crossville

The Palace Theatre is located on the Cumberland Plateau in Crossville, Tennessee and was built in 1938, closed in 1978, reopened in 2001. It was... listed in David Naylor's book Great American Movie Theaters, in 1989 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1938 to 1978 the theatre provided a movie house to a small Tennessee community. It hosted entertainment events that featured Grand Ole Opry stars and was the site for scrap metal drives and the sale of War Bonds during World War II. The doors of the Palace Theatre closed in 1978 and would have failed to open again had it not been for the effort of various citizens, fund raising and Federal Grant money that was provided. In 2001 the restored three story building was able to open featuring a design of both Art Deco and Art Moderne styles. Today the theatre continues its role in the community. Concerts, art exhibits, school performances and private rental keep the old building active. The neon marquee continues to shine a welcome invitation to step back in time.
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Julie Ann Emery, born and raised in Crossville, Tennessee, is a theatre, television and film actress. She attended Webster Conservatory in St. Louis,... Missouri, where she studied acting. She began her career at the age of 16 on the theatrical stage and has appeared in several productions, such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Bye Bye Birdie. She has made guest appearances on television series, such as ER, CSI: Miami and Commander in Chief, and starring roles in Line of Fire, and Steven Spielberg's miniseries Taken. She also appeared in the film Hitch, alongside Will Smith. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her husband, Broadway actor Kevin Earley.
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Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's... western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902. The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, and the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.
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