Maurice Dubinsky

Maurice Dubinsky was the eldest of the three brothers who bought the Regent Theatre in Kansas City in 1920 and formed the circuit that became AMC. He had toured the Midwest with the family melodrama and tent show company before the brothers moved into permanent cinemas, and he worked in the business until his death in 1929.

Maurice Dubinsky was the oldest of the Dubinsky brothers and a partner in the 1920 purchase of the Regent Theatre on 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the single venue from which AMC grew. Before that the brothers travelled the Midwest presenting melodramas and tent shows, at one point with the actress Jeanne Eagels, and that touring business supplied both the capital and the audience knowledge behind the move into permanent exhibition. Maurice died in 1929, before the Depression and before the company reached the roughly 40 theatres in Missouri and Kansas that it operated by 1932, so his part in the story is the founding one rather than the expansion. Some records render his name as Morris; AMC's own corporate history and contemporary accounts use Maurice. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).