The B&W comedy was the first solo vehicle for Abbott & Costello, who rapidly landed among the Box Office Champions for the rest of the decade and into the next.
Part of the ground site of the Roxy’s 6,000-seat auditorium is now occupied by Urban Hawker, an authentic Singapore street food center with main entrance at 135 West 50th Street. Official website with photographs can be viewed here
“Empire of Light” has just started streaming in the USA and possibly elsewhere on HBO Max. One of very few films in which a cinema is one of the main characters. Hard to believe that most of the interiors are just sets constructed for the production within the moldering remains of Dreamland.
Front cover of trade journal issue of September 12th, 1945…Workers preparing for the opening of “Captain Eddie” with Fred MacMurray, and stage show topped by comedian Phil Silvers.
If someone happens to notice an empty seat in a higher-priced section, what is to prevent them from moving there? Will an employee of management suddenly turn up and demand that they return to the seat they paid for?
Festivities and screening were also held simultaneously at the Capitol Theatre, where “GWTW” started continuous performances the next day. The Astor was a two-a-day road show with reserved seats. The Capitol, which then had a reported seating capacity of 4,520, offered three continuous performances daily, with the last starting at 9:00 PM.
Veronica Lake vaulted to stardom in a supporting role, and quickly became one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and publicized sirens of the World War II era.
A trade journal review claimed that the projected image of “Happy Days” measured 42 feet by 21 feet, compared to the Roxy’s normal size of 24 feet by 18 feet.
The Music Hall’s first opening of the year followed a hold-over of the Christmas holiday presentation that included MGM’s Technicolor musical, “Good News,” on screen.
Films were first-run for the neighborhoods, after Chicago premiere engagements in the “Loop.”
The B&W comedy was the first solo vehicle for Abbott & Costello, who rapidly landed among the Box Office Champions for the rest of the decade and into the next.
Part of the ground site of the Roxy’s 6,000-seat auditorium is now occupied by Urban Hawker, an authentic Singapore street food center with main entrance at 135 West 50th Street. Official website with photographs can be viewed here
“Empire of Light” has just started streaming in the USA and possibly elsewhere on HBO Max. One of very few films in which a cinema is one of the main characters. Hard to believe that most of the interiors are just sets constructed for the production within the moldering remains of Dreamland.
Front cover of trade journal issue of September 12th, 1945…Workers preparing for the opening of “Captain Eddie” with Fred MacMurray, and stage show topped by comedian Phil Silvers.
If someone happens to notice an empty seat in a higher-priced section, what is to prevent them from moving there? Will an employee of management suddenly turn up and demand that they return to the seat they paid for?
Spotlighted in full-page trade journal ad by Du Pont Film Manufacturing Corporation.
Did you expect me to post it at every AMC site listed at Cinema Treasures? I picked Lincoln Square because it’s mentioned in the article.
A new AMC Tiered Pricing Policy makes “good” seats even more expensive, according to news reports like this one
Festivities and screening were also held simultaneously at the Capitol Theatre, where “GWTW” started continuous performances the next day. The Astor was a two-a-day road show with reserved seats. The Capitol, which then had a reported seating capacity of 4,520, offered three continuous performances daily, with the last starting at 9:00 PM.
Veronica Lake vaulted to stardom in a supporting role, and quickly became one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and publicized sirens of the World War II era.
Night before the federal holiday of Memorial Day, which fell on a Wednesday that year.
A trade journal review claimed that the projected image of “Happy Days” measured 42 feet by 21 feet, compared to the Roxy’s normal size of 24 feet by 18 feet.
First program change of 1973, following extended run of the Christmas ‘72 holiday presentation that included “1776” on screen.
Complete shows included stage appearances by a claimed “Nazi Slave Girl,” plus a “German Nudist Queen.”
Queen Elizabeth II greets Gina Lollobrigida at the Odeon Leicester Square Theatre prior to the unveiling of Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief.”
First starring vehicle for Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, following supporting roles in “My Friend Irma” and “My Friend Irma Goes West.”
“Movie Quiz” was an industry-sponsored contest being conducted nationally, with thousands of theatres participating.
The latest “Avatar” has been bursting bladders on 34th Street and around the world, according to a New York Times article linked here
I believe the photo was taken in 1929, just prior to the Fox’s opening in late January of that year.
For this engagement, known as Warner Theatre, with no reference to Cinerama, since the Technicolor musical was produced in Todd-AO.
The Music Hall’s first opening of the year followed a hold-over of the Christmas holiday presentation that included MGM’s Technicolor musical, “Good News,” on screen.
RKO’s “Second Chance” was being promoted as the first 3-D feature with “Big Stars” heading the cast.
This was the Mastbaum’s Thanksgiving holiday presentation for that year.
Link to Embassy listing here