Avenue Playhouse
1187 Avenue of the Americas,
New York,
NY
10036
1187 Avenue of the Americas,
New York,
NY
10036
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It appears it remained the Irish for a little over year until it reverted back to the Miami, most likely the result of the war disrupting the Irish economy and. It then ran silent films for a while as well.
Sorry Warren, I thought you were saying 1938 was too EARLY for Ireland. I re-read the NY Times article and it does say that the Miami will show only Irish films when renamed the Irish Theatre, the first being ROSE OF TRALEE.
www.imdb.com
ROSE OF TRAILEE 21 October, 1938 release in NY as showed in Variety and the NY Times at the Irish Theatre.
Known as the Irish Theatre for the brief run of the film version of ROSE OF TRALEE in 1938, the first film made in Ireland.
That’s a great double-bill at the Miami!
I take it that at the Gotham, Lola Lane’s star-attraction was “Why Girls Leave Home,” which also sounds good. Since that film opened on 3 August ‘45, the clipping must coincide roughly with Hiroshima/Nagasaki/VJ Day.
At the bottom of the clipping, I wonder what film it was that Walter Winchell prophecied we’d laugh out heads off at? Good thing none of us saw it—we wouldn’t have any heads now.
Here is an ad for Shoe Shine (Sciuscià ) from November 22, 1947.
Warren—
Thanks for the photo. I dimly recall the neon tubing of the Avenue/Avon’s marquee as green and white. That’s a colorful history, all the more so imbued with the US premiere of de Sica’s “Shoe Shine.”
RobertR: “Jenny Lamour,” aka “Quai des orfevres,” with Louis Jouvet, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (winner of Best Director for it at Venice Festival ‘47), opened on 5 March '48. I wonder how much longer it continued after hitting the eight-week mark?
In a 1948 as the theatre was called the Avenue Playhouse and was in it’s 8th week of Jenny Lamour. I don’t know if it opened here but the ad said Extended American Premiere. Seems long runs were the norm here.