Embassy 1,2,3 Theatre
707 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
707 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
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Recent web posting on the history:
http://www.gothamlostandfound.com/
Scroll down a couple of articles.
Regarding the above photo, Warren notes “Great photo from May 1937 showing dedication of Father Duffy statue in Duffy Square near West 47th Street. In background are the Mayfair Theatre with original (and huge) marquee, RKO Palace, and Embassy Newsreel. The CT listing for the Mayfair is as Embassy 2,3,4”
An exceptionally GREAT photo of Times Square and theaters on 2 May 1937 with the dedication of statue of Father Duffy, heroic chaplin to the “Fighting 69th” Regiment during WW1:
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Coutesy of Warren
Love that DeMille shot posted above on April 17, 2009. Did it re-open in 1974 after renovations? When was it triplexed and turned into the Embassy 2-3-4?
Great old photo…thanks….
Here is a November 1951 ad from the New York Times:
http://tinyurl.com/psc2dg
Renewing link
DeMille closed in 1974
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Renewing link.
That truck is back again today.
Yes, it was the Taft on the West side of the Roxy and I believe that it still has the Taft name today. The hallway that led to the main Roxy building went through the Taft Hotel and is currently, and sadly, occupied by a TGIF Fridays.
Mea culpa! I had a momentary memory lapse of geography there, Warren. I was thinking of the Taft Hotel, which now has a different name, probably being up against the Roxy’s west side wall and possibly its north wall. Does that compute?
The Mayfair’s (later the DeMille’s) walls must have abutted those of the Roxy, right, for as long as the Roxy survived?
I was walking by the 47 Street side of the building this afternoon. It looks like they are still banging away at the old theatre again. I saw workmen filling a truck with banged up plaster and stuff. They were coming out of the double set of black exit doors from the theatre.
The tile of the picture is “Abbott and Costello In Society”. Which was released in Aug 16, 1944 in NYC.
I hope this isn’t “unsolicited commercial content,” but Swann Auction Galleries is offering the original design for the Psycho premiere sign at the De Mille from 1960. It doesn’t seem to match the image I saw posted above, so it may have been for the lobby or perhaps it was a rejected design. It will be lot 223 in the March 26 Americana auction. If you’re curious,
you can access an image at View link . Thanks.
saps, I have seen that other Mayfair advertised before in the sixties, usually associated with Jewish programming. I suspect it was an auditorium on an upper floor.
In the movie clock for Radio City Music Hall on that 11/20 ad, “The Sandpiper” was listed as going on at 3:57 … 9:53 … right to the minute. I wonder if the Music Hall really got their shows off on time like that – they probably took great pride in it. I guess REndres would be able to answer that.
None of the other theaters in the movie clock had such exact time listings.
Coincidentally, that newspaper clipping posted by Bill on November 20 also has an ad for a burlesque show at a “Mayfair Theater” at 236 W. 46th Street; what theater is that?
And the photo posted by Warren on November 21 seems to show “Brandt’s” name on the marquee above “Mayfair;” shouldn’t that name be listed as an “Also known as” at the top of this page, as other postings have suggested?
I’ve got some pics of the lobby somwhere…i’ll see if I can find then. They are from May 2008 and i believe I got a decent panorama of the lobby ceiling. I’ll see if I can post em. Too bad the chandelier is gone…
It’s hard to make out, but under the title on the marquee it says “BRILLIANT” **** – News. It looks like the word WORLD is in there too.
It must have played there for a long time. Imdb gives a March 1949 release date for the NYC opening as does Film Daily. “The Dalton Gang” at the Palace has a Oct. 21st. 1949 date and “Intruder in the Dust” Nov. 22, 1949. Bill Robinson passed away Nov. 25th, 1949.
Both “Quartet” and “Trio” were shown on Turner Classic Movies on the same night, about a year ago.
I see. So it was the Embassy showing “Quartet”. Thanks.
Actually, the name of the movie at the Embassy was “Quartet”. It was a British film, a compilation of four short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It was so successful, the filmmakers made a sequel of sorts a few years later called “Trio” (3 stories instead of 4).
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040335/