Victoria Theatre
1547 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1547 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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FYI. Just uploaded a 1929 theatre program for John Ford’s “the Black Watch” to the Photos section. It includes a small floor plan diagram. Photo courtesy of Decaying Hollywood Mansions FB page.
The “Wajan” booking was mentioned in this editorial, which is mainly directed at the Criterion for indecent lobby displays: Boxoffice
Boxoffice “deplored” the type of ballyhoo used to sell this doc. Ha! If they could only see what lay down the road…
Half-nudist virgins ran rampant at the Gaiety in 1938: Boxoffice
Here’s a trade article on the introduction of Fox’s wide-screen Grandeur process at the Gaiety Theatre in 1929: archive
Sinking into the muck by 1970: Boxoffice
Love those crowds in the picture :)
Minor-league Tiffany Productions made it to Broadway at the Gaiety Theatre with this “daringly different” melodrama: boxofficemagazine
On this traditional Columbus Day (10/12) in 1949, J. Arthur Rank’s Technicolor epic, “Christopher Columbus,” with Fredric March in the title role, opened its NYC premiere engagement at the Victoria Theatre. Universal-International handled the American distribution, which proved a critical and boxoffice disaster.
This previously linked 1954 image is now part of a New York Times slide show of photographs by Frank Oscar Larson: View link
Seventy-eight years ago tonight, MGM’s B&W adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood’s sophisticated comedy hit, “Reunion in Vienna,” opened its world premiere engagement at the Gaiety Theatre as a two-a-day reserved-seat roadshow. John Barrymore and Diana Wynyard filled the leading roles played in the stage version by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The booking gave MGM two roadshow presentations in the same block of Broadway, with the B&W thriller “Hell Below” (Robert Montgomery-Walter Huston) continuing at the Astor Theatre.
A September 7, 1943 article in the New York Times explains how this location became an outlet for Russian films in 1943-1944.
Maurice Maurer, owner of the lease for several Times Square theatres including the Victoria, sold his lease to the Stanley, which had been an established outlet for Russian films since 1941. He then competed with the sucessful Stanley by programming first-run films from Russia (or about Russia) at the Victoria for almost a year.
Just prior to this it had been the Laffmovie and the often raided Gaiety Burlesque.
Nice link Tinseltoes.
Half a century ago today, Paramount’s “It Started in Naples,” teaming Clark Gable and Sophia Loren for the first and only time, opened its NYC premiere engagement at the Victoria and Murray Hill Theatres. Here’s a link to the original trailer: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=197379
Here’s a 1954 view when the Victoria was presenting Garland’s “A Star Is Born” day-and-date with the Paramount Theatre: http://www.nfo.net/usa/bwayasto.jpg
Here is a photo circa 1965:
http://tinyurl.com/yz6kr8r
Here’s a 1934 view with the Gaiety and Astor in the background: View link
Here is a 1967 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ydynovo
Laffmovie should be added to previous names (1942-1943).
Here’s a 1956 view with Columbia’s “The Solid Gold Cadillac” at the Victoria and Paramount’s “The Mountain” at the Astor: View link
The NYT is selling this 1948 image at their online store:
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Image taken in December 1948 during showing of “Joan of Arc”.
From a 1944 LIFE photo can be seen an unusual view of the Victoria -
View link
Don’t narrow it down for me.
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” opened in 1957, so that might narrow it down a bit.
Not a great photo.