Embassy Cinema
125 Park Avenue,
New York,
NY
10017
125 Park Avenue,
New York,
NY
10017
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Located at Park Avenue at 42nd Street, which would place it right at Grand Central Station, this theatre advertised in 1949 its showing of the British film “The Facts of Love”.
Recollections of this theatre would be appreciated.
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Gerald A. DeLuca
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Can someone tell me where on this site I could find the listing for what is now the Times Square Visitors Center? I see it mentioned all over the place and it’s not listed under The Embassy.
Listed as Embassy Theatre (1560 Broadway).
I believe the address for this location was 125 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
The address for the Embassy Newsreel Theatre was 74 East 42nd Street, and it contained 527 seats, according to the 1945 edition of the Motion Picture Theatre Directory published by the New York Film Board of Trade.
In 1952, this was apparently known as Brandt’s Murray Hill and running double-bills of foreign imports and Hollywood reissues:
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Renewing link.
This is listed as the AIR LINES theatre in the 1942 Film daily Year Book.
The 1943 Film Daily Year Book lists a Newsreel Theatre at 74 E. 42nd street as well as the aforementioned Air Lines theatre at 42nd and Park.
Does anyone know if all three theatres were the same?
The cinema can be seen to the extreme right of this view of the Airlines Terminal building. Instead of a marquee, the Embassy had an attraction board over the entrance. This photo also suggests that there was no entrance to the cinema on the Park Avenue side of the terminal building.
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The Airlines name makes even more sense now. Seating and location all match although the mailing address was once on 42nd street. This theatre opened on October 18, 1940 as the Airlines Newsreel and had the same publicity agent as the Grand central Newsreel inside the terminal.
From 1949 it was a late run double feature house. In February 1951, after the Loew’s 42nd Street (aka Murray Hill) had closed, this became Brandt’s Murray Hill.
Airlines and Murray Hill should be added as aka names.