Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda, and Jane Powell made their Music Hall debuts in the Technicolor frolic, which was based on a popular primetime radio series.
Pantheon director Ernst Lubitsch died during production of the Technicolor musical fantasy, which was completed by Otto Preminger (sans screen credit).
The B&W epic started out as a reserved-seat roadshow, charging $1 for matinees and $2 for evening performances.
Depression conditions soon forced a switch to continuous showings at standard prices.
Not exactly Loew’s Coney Island, but movies returned to the resort this summer with a series of free Monday night screenings that included the latest “Star Wars” installment. The giant 40-foot inflatable screen was positioned on the beach at West 10th Street.
The electrified American flag above the marquee was installed soon after the USA entered WW1 in April, 1917.
The war was still raging at the time of this photo, and would end in an Armistice on November 11th, 1918. The Geraldine Farrar film opened at the Strand on September 1st, and ran for one week.
This ad was intended to be part of my postings of backstage photos of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on their wedding day, but “Tinsletoe” blocked it with his/her fourth repeat of a programme cover before I could finish. Desi Arnaz had come to New York for this Roxy booking.
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Newlyweds Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had just rushed back from a marriage ceremony in Connecticut so that he could get ready for his first stage show of that day at the Roxy (which had “Tin Pan Alley” on screen).
Starlet Marilyn Monroe, who had a brief but eye-popping encounter with Groucho Marx in the B&W comedy, was sent on a national promotional tour that provided her with her very first visit to New York City.
Further research shows August 12th, 1949 as the official opening date. The drive-in was owned and operated by the family of future mogul Sumner Redstone, using some of the profits earned from their Sunrise Drive-In at Valley Stream in Nassau County, just over the NYC borderline.
The Chinese in Hollywood and the Avco Center in Westwood, both with single screens, were the two Los Angeles locations. The Plitt City Center was in Orange County. Ad doesn’t mention whether more than one screen was being used there for “Star Wars.”
This was an exclusive re-packaging for the Labor Day holiday period.
Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda, and Jane Powell made their Music Hall debuts in the Technicolor frolic, which was based on a popular primetime radio series.
“Lo” is also the correct pronunciation of the name “Loew,” which many New Yorkers tended to utter as “Lowee.”
Pantheon director Ernst Lubitsch died during production of the Technicolor musical fantasy, which was completed by Otto Preminger (sans screen credit).
The B&W epic started out as a reserved-seat roadshow, charging $1 for matinees and $2 for evening performances. Depression conditions soon forced a switch to continuous showings at standard prices.
Two months later, on November 11th, World War One ended in an Armistice between opposing forces.
Not exactly Loew’s Coney Island, but movies returned to the resort this summer with a series of free Monday night screenings that included the latest “Star Wars” installment. The giant 40-foot inflatable screen was positioned on the beach at West 10th Street.
This was a reserved-seat roadshow engagement. Comparisons of the classic play to a Broadway hit show rattled Shakespearean scholars.
Photo of the Strand’s entrance during this engagement was previously uploaded.
The electrified American flag above the marquee was installed soon after the USA entered WW1 in April, 1917. The war was still raging at the time of this photo, and would end in an Armistice on November 11th, 1918. The Geraldine Farrar film opened at the Strand on September 1st, and ran for one week.
Part of the gala festivities for the world premiere on the night of December 16th, 1954, for the benefit of The Actors Fund.
Kramer’s can be found in the section topped by the Madison and Colonial. That week, Kramer’s changed programs four times.
The first “Road” comedy to be released since “Morocco” in 1942.
This ad was intended to be part of my postings of backstage photos of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on their wedding day, but “Tinsletoe” blocked it with his/her fourth repeat of a programme cover before I could finish. Desi Arnaz had come to New York for this Roxy booking.
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“Say cheese!”
Newlyweds Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had just rushed back from a marriage ceremony in Connecticut so that he could get ready for his first stage show of that day at the Roxy (which had “Tin Pan Alley” on screen).
The B&W melodrama replaced “The Wizard of Oz” and returned the Capitol to its “Everything on the Screen” policy.
In the stage portion, two of Judy Garland’s “Oz” co-stars replaced Mickey Rooney, who returned to Los Angeles for his next film assignment at MGM.
Starlet Marilyn Monroe, who had a brief but eye-popping encounter with Groucho Marx in the B&W comedy, was sent on a national promotional tour that provided her with her very first visit to New York City.
This was the Capitol’s first and only stage presentation since the theatre switched to a “screen only” policy in 1935.
The Roxy mentioned in fourth paragraph.
In August of that year, America’s beloved humorist was killed in a plane crash, at the age of 55.
Further research shows August 12th, 1949 as the official opening date. The drive-in was owned and operated by the family of future mogul Sumner Redstone, using some of the profits earned from their Sunrise Drive-In at Valley Stream in Nassau County, just over the NYC borderline.
The Chinese in Hollywood and the Avco Center in Westwood, both with single screens, were the two Los Angeles locations. The Plitt City Center was in Orange County. Ad doesn’t mention whether more than one screen was being used there for “Star Wars.”