Vanity Theatre
5612 Fifth Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11220
5612 Fifth Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11220
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The Peerless Fifth Avenue Theatre opened in 1914. Alterations were carried out by architect Harrison Wiseman in 1934 and it became the Vanity Theatre from 1935 until its closure on July 16, 1949.
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This theater is shown in the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook as being open with seating for 588 (and an address of “56-12 Fifth Ave.”) but is no longer listed by the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook.
The only place that I could find an address for the Vanity Theater was on Cinematour. I have no idea which address is the correct one.
Okay, the Vanity Theater was located at 56th Street and Fifth Avenue so the address of 5612 given in the Film Daily Yearbook should be the correct address.
was there the collisum quad at this address
The Coliseum Theater was located at 5205 Fourth Avenue. Click here for the Coliseum Theater listing on Cinema Treasures.
The 1926 Film Daily Year Book lists a 600-seat Peerless Theatre at 5612 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. I suspect that the Peerless was later re-named the Vanity.
The Peerless/Vanity must have been a very minor cinema in the overall scheme of things. I haven’t been able to find newspaper advertising for it under either name, not even in group directories with single line listings.
In 1937, the Vanity was being booked and managed by Rosenblatt-Welt Theatres, which also ran the Boro Hall and Sunset in Brooklyn, and the Star, Empire, Palace, Rex, and Victory on Staten Island. In New Jersey, R-W also ran the Lyceum and Plaza, Bayonne; Hights, Hightstown; and the Orient and Orpheum, Jersey City. R-W had its headquarters in the Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway, NYC.
The Vanity Theatre ended up as part of the Interboro Circuit and closed in either 1948 or 1949, according to the Film Daily Year Books for those years.