Usher

An usher is somebody who cleans up at a movie theater. They also help people to their seats, assist projectionists, help out at the ticket window, etc. An usher may also be someone who is part of a wedding ceremony. They are usually part of the groom's party, and are there to help old Granny Noosebaum with the walker with the tennis balls on it to get to her seat.

In Scream 2, a young woman worked as an usher giving out costumes at the Rialto Theater in Ohio. She worked during the sneak preview of the slasher film Stab, and handed costumes to Phil Stevens and Maureen Evans.


 * Usher may also refer to the Usher family featured in the 1839 short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, by author Edgar Allan Poe. The story has been adapted into numerous film versions.


 * Actor Matt Gillanders played a theatre usher in the 2005 remake of King Kong.


 * Before becoming a "Bride of Frankenstein" pastiche in 1985's The Bride, actress Jennifer Beals used to work as an usher at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.