Stanley Theatre
586 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
586 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
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This earlier comment by AlAlvarez says that the Stanley was showing movies as early as 1916. Its age, and the fact that it is the only theater listed for this stretch of 7th Avenue, makes it more likely that it was the theater in this item from The American Contractor of July 5, 1913:
W. H. Hoffman was, of course, the senior partner in the Philadelphia architectural firm of Hoffman & Henon, specialists in theater design.Mark Rivest has the only photo I have seen of the Stanley marquee. Check page 63 of his Manhattan collection.
http://movie-theatre.org/usa/ny/NYC/readmanhattan
Sorry, that ad was from Gerald DeLuca, not Warren.
By the way, did you see the Yiddish film that was playing in Warren’s ad of 2/19/08? There was some diversity in this theater.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in November 1947:
NEW YORK-“Francis the First”, a French film, opened at the Stanley Theater November 19. The theater usually shows first-run Russian product.
In November 1948 the Italian film The Spirit and the Flesh premiered at the Stanley. It had been made in 1941 and was based on the great Manzoni novel, I promessi sposi.
I am glad to see this movie house is already identified as a communist sympathizer house as I found this movie ad in my trusty May 10, 1946 NYC edition of the (Communist) Daily Worker (reading from top to bottom various type size):
“Has more dramatic excitement than most films in town.” – World-Telegram
K. Simonov's
DAYS AND NIGHTS
An Artkino Release
Now – A Stirring Film
Doors Open 8:45 a.m.
Stanley 7th Ave. bet 42 & 41 STS
Also 1st New York Showing—
“Warsaw Rebuilds” and Soviet “Young Musicians"
Just arrived – first film of "Election Day in the U.S.S.R.” Exclusive pictures of Stalin, Zhukov, Konev, Ilya Ehrenburg, Boris Babushkin, Nikolai Cherkasov and other Soviet celebrities."
So there.
Demolition was announced starting on January 2, 1956 when the Stanley and the National Hotel were both to be replaced by a 15 story textile industry building that has apparently since been demolished as well.
hello,
I am writing from France. My father, produced a film “Les clandestins” which was shown at the Stanley in NYC in 1948. Could anyone help me in finding the american adds of the film ?
thanks
Another ad for “Ravaged Earth”
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Here is an ad for “Ravaged Earth” at the Stanley in 1944
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The Stanley was advertised as showing films in the New York Times as early as 1916 but started it’s steady life as New York’s premiere Russian cinema in 1941, showing propaganda war films and musicals that hailed the Germans as the enemy even before that was a popular sentiment at the New York Times. Once the US entered the war, the Stanley, always politcal, added anti-Japanese films such as RAVAGED EARTH to its mix of Marxist musicals and war documentaries.
By 1956, at the height of the communist witch hunt, the Stanley disappeared from the movie pages of the New York Times, a likely casualty of the anti-Soviet climate.
The Stanley Theatre is listed in Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 and 1957 editions that I have.