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10 Vintage Photos Show ‘Star Wars’ Fans Lining Up At The Theaters — Just Like You

6. “Star Wars” fan Danny Fitzgerald of Staten Island, in Darth Vader costume, posed in front of the Loews Astor Plaza movie theater in Times Square in New York on May 25, 1983, where fans lined up for the premiere of “The Return of the Jedi.”

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7. Movie fans lined up on Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street for the premiere of the Movie “Return of the Jedi” on Wednesday, May 23, 1983. Fans began lining up Tuesday night to see the Star Wars trilogy.

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8. Three costumed fans of the “Star Wars” movie trilogy, from left, Kevin Maguire as an Imperial Fire Control Officer, Stephen Robards and his brother John Robards as Rebel Fighter Pilots, stood in a line of ticket buyers outside a Boston theater before the first showing of the “Return of the Jedi” on May 25, 1983.

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9. The Force is with them: many hours before the curtain went up at the University Theatre in Toronto, Canada hundreds of Star Wars fanatics lined up to buy tickets for the world premiere of “Return of The Jedi” on May 25, 1983.

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10. Star Wars opens to British audiences for the first time on December 27, 1977. This was the queue outside the Leicester Square Theatre for the London opening of the movie.

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