The Cine-Teatro Aguia was opened in the 1950’s. It was the largest cinema in the town of Quelimane. It was destroyed by fire in the 1980’s.
When you list a theater like this could you tell us where it is exactly? The above info needs to be more specific. What country and what continent. MZ? Mozambique? There is a lot of this with foreign theaters. You have no idea about these theaters of different countries and continents.
Lucky you! How lucky that you were able to see those films in those theaters. I remember passing them with my parents but my parents would never pay roadshow prices for a movie. I was too young to go on my own and certainly did not have the money. Loew’s State was twinned in ‘68. I wish I could have seen it as a single screen theater.
Clear Day was a perfect Music Hall movie and should have played there.
Looks like the kind of film that would have opened at the Astor or Victoria and one of the less prestigious east side houses. But the film to follow was pretty bad. That one I did see.
I saw the June in January finale with Promise at Dawn.
The Roxyettes of course became the Rockettes. I said once there were initially 46 Rockettes not 36. Somebody on this site insisted it wasn’t true there were always 36. Now I see I was wrong, it was 48!
The Hall seemed to have been a city unto itself. Not when I was working there. At times it seemed like a ghost town.
What a beautiful wide screen theater. On another site I found a Sound of Music ad for it so I looked it up here. This is what I wished the Ziegfeld was like in New York. Wow 105 weeks for SOM. It didn’t even run that long in NY at the Rivoli. A lot of repeat viewings. I would have been one of them in a 70MM house like that.
I wonder if “H.M.Pulham,Esq” was a disappointment which is why they didn’t hold it through the New Year. The New York Times calls it a dull film but says the Christmas stage show is quite spectacular. Babes on Broadway should have been the Christmas film and would have definitely played through the holidays.
The finale is one of the best things Berkeley and Garland ever did but will never receive the recognition it deserves or possibly even a bluray because it is in blackface.
Well if she did there is no record of it. She’s never mentioned it despite talking about going for the first time to the Hall to see The Jolson Story and her excitement at BBB opening there and seeing herself on the screen. I saw her live show there. She also I believe did a TV special including the Rockettes.
Alex Baldwin representing PETA is calling for the elimination of all animals from The Nativity. Not that I care because it’s not Leonidoff’s. It’s a pale cheap imitation looking like it belongs in the midwest somewhere. I saw it once and that was enough. Where I always looked forward to it during its stage show/film period, beautiful. I remember the delight of the audience of the Magi on the horse and the camel.
Breaking a cycle of movie musicals for the Christmas Music Hall show returning the following Christmas which would continue until ‘55 after which musicals would not return until '61 and then play on and off.
How many months did it even last at Loew’s State 2? Definitely not 8. But I loved these roadshow pictures when they tried to turn them into an event. I saw it at the drive in the summer of ‘69 and boy was it boring. Tried watching it on TV and it was pretty bad. Maybe I got 30 minutes into it if that long. It might have past muster at the Music Hall as the Christmas film replacing what Leonard Maltin called the dirtiest G rated movie ever The Impossible Years which is very smutty. But because it had David Niven presiding over a family they considered it a family film. Even as a boy I would have been embarrassed seeing it with my family. Darling Lili is another film where you wonder if the studio bought the G rating.
There have been I believe a few postings of Kong at the Music Hall but I included this one because in the upper left hand corner you can see a listing for the Broadway production of The Gay Divorce with Fred Astaire at the Shubert Theater on W44th St when he introduced the song Night and Day. Reduced prices to keep the show running. At the end of the year his first film with Ginger Rogers and the first Christmas film at the Music Hall would be Flying Down to Rio. When did he get the time to make it? They made films fast. He would never return to Broadway.
The Gay Divorce with the less offensive title The Gay Divorcee would of course eventually play at the Hall as well.
Can you imagine a time in New York when you could go to an early matinee of Kong at the Music Hall with a stage show and then in the evening see Fred Astaire on Broadway in a Cole Porter musical. Incredible.
I remember this double bill as a little boy in our local medium sized movie palace which still exists as 5 shoe box theaters. It probably was the first time I went to the movies. I wonder if Almost Angels was ever released on home video.
Random Harvest opened as the ‘42 Christmas show. You can see the holiday garlands have been taken down. The film was such a success it played until March of ‘43 Even though it is past the holiday season there is still a long line and crowds outside the Hall. The director Mervyn LeRoy in his autobio claims the Music Hall manager told him it could have played for many more weeks. But the Music Hall had other films lined up waiting to get in and MGM probably wanted to get it into the nabes. It could have played as the Easter Show as well. Coleman and Garson are one of the most attractive couples to appear in a movie.
The film that followed was a Goldwyn Hope/Lamour comedy. In his autobio I think he says Cancel My Reservation was the only one of his films to play at the Hall. I guess he forgot about this one.
I saw this last good Christmas stage show because it was the last with the ballet company.
I thought the film was ok but it is now considered a Disney animated classic. Well it does have Monica Evans, Carole Shelley and Brian Bedford doing some of the voices and major others as you can see.
Mr Roe can you be more specific about where these theaters are? Martyrs Avenue, Asmara is pretty meaningless to us unless you expect us to google it.
The Cine-Teatro Aguia was opened in the 1950’s. It was the largest cinema in the town of Quelimane. It was destroyed by fire in the 1980’s.
When you list a theater like this could you tell us where it is exactly? The above info needs to be more specific. What country and what continent. MZ? Mozambique? There is a lot of this with foreign theaters. You have no idea about these theaters of different countries and continents.
Lucky you! How lucky that you were able to see those films in those theaters. I remember passing them with my parents but my parents would never pay roadshow prices for a movie. I was too young to go on my own and certainly did not have the money. Loew’s State was twinned in ‘68. I wish I could have seen it as a single screen theater. Clear Day was a perfect Music Hall movie and should have played there.
I wonder if this included the Sunflower segment or if it was cut by then. It certainly was in no print from the 70s on.
Paramount changed its policy on R&J. Frank told Paramount no to a roadshow run and it was done continuous performances at the Paris.
Looks like the kind of film that would have opened at the Astor or Victoria and one of the less prestigious east side houses. But the film to follow was pretty bad. That one I did see. I saw the June in January finale with Promise at Dawn.
The Roxyettes of course became the Rockettes. I said once there were initially 46 Rockettes not 36. Somebody on this site insisted it wasn’t true there were always 36. Now I see I was wrong, it was 48!
The Hall seemed to have been a city unto itself. Not when I was working there. At times it seemed like a ghost town.
Wait Warner Bros opened this one at Loew’s Capitol and not at the Strand? MGM had nothing and the Strand was overbooked? Mighty strange.
What a beautiful wide screen theater. On another site I found a Sound of Music ad for it so I looked it up here. This is what I wished the Ziegfeld was like in New York. Wow 105 weeks for SOM. It didn’t even run that long in NY at the Rivoli. A lot of repeat viewings. I would have been one of them in a 70MM house like that.
How would anyone have gotten to the entrance of the Criterion in the evening if the crowds are anything like they are today.
There used to be a plaque in the lobby of the theater commemorated this momentous event but it was taken down.
I wonder if “H.M.Pulham,Esq” was a disappointment which is why they didn’t hold it through the New Year. The New York Times calls it a dull film but says the Christmas stage show is quite spectacular. Babes on Broadway should have been the Christmas film and would have definitely played through the holidays.
The finale is one of the best things Berkeley and Garland ever did but will never receive the recognition it deserves or possibly even a bluray because it is in blackface.
They superimposed a photo of Namath in ‘69 over a 1965 picture of Times Square which is understandable as it was a more glamorous brightly lit area.
Well if she did there is no record of it. She’s never mentioned it despite talking about going for the first time to the Hall to see The Jolson Story and her excitement at BBB opening there and seeing herself on the screen. I saw her live show there. She also I believe did a TV special including the Rockettes.
Alex Baldwin representing PETA is calling for the elimination of all animals from The Nativity. Not that I care because it’s not Leonidoff’s. It’s a pale cheap imitation looking like it belongs in the midwest somewhere. I saw it once and that was enough. Where I always looked forward to it during its stage show/film period, beautiful. I remember the delight of the audience of the Magi on the horse and the camel.
Breaking a cycle of movie musicals for the Christmas Music Hall show returning the following Christmas which would continue until ‘55 after which musicals would not return until '61 and then play on and off.
How many months did it even last at Loew’s State 2? Definitely not 8. But I loved these roadshow pictures when they tried to turn them into an event. I saw it at the drive in the summer of ‘69 and boy was it boring. Tried watching it on TV and it was pretty bad. Maybe I got 30 minutes into it if that long. It might have past muster at the Music Hall as the Christmas film replacing what Leonard Maltin called the dirtiest G rated movie ever The Impossible Years which is very smutty. But because it had David Niven presiding over a family they considered it a family film. Even as a boy I would have been embarrassed seeing it with my family. Darling Lili is another film where you wonder if the studio bought the G rating.
Is like in Chinatown? ‘She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!’
There have been I believe a few postings of Kong at the Music Hall but I included this one because in the upper left hand corner you can see a listing for the Broadway production of The Gay Divorce with Fred Astaire at the Shubert Theater on W44th St when he introduced the song Night and Day. Reduced prices to keep the show running. At the end of the year his first film with Ginger Rogers and the first Christmas film at the Music Hall would be Flying Down to Rio. When did he get the time to make it? They made films fast. He would never return to Broadway.
The Gay Divorce with the less offensive title The Gay Divorcee would of course eventually play at the Hall as well.
Can you imagine a time in New York when you could go to an early matinee of Kong at the Music Hall with a stage show and then in the evening see Fred Astaire on Broadway in a Cole Porter musical. Incredible.
This looks like the most beautiful of surviving movie palaces. Happy to know it still shows movies.
I remember this double bill as a little boy in our local medium sized movie palace which still exists as 5 shoe box theaters. It probably was the first time I went to the movies. I wonder if Almost Angels was ever released on home video.
Looks more like a film the Music Hall would play in the summer rather than at Christmas.
Random Harvest opened as the ‘42 Christmas show. You can see the holiday garlands have been taken down. The film was such a success it played until March of ‘43 Even though it is past the holiday season there is still a long line and crowds outside the Hall. The director Mervyn LeRoy in his autobio claims the Music Hall manager told him it could have played for many more weeks. But the Music Hall had other films lined up waiting to get in and MGM probably wanted to get it into the nabes. It could have played as the Easter Show as well. Coleman and Garson are one of the most attractive couples to appear in a movie.
The film that followed was a Goldwyn Hope/Lamour comedy. In his autobio I think he says Cancel My Reservation was the only one of his films to play at the Hall. I guess he forgot about this one.
It needs a bluray! But I doubt it’s on the top of Warner’s archive list.
5 stage shows. The cast a crew must have been wiped out.
I saw this last good Christmas stage show because it was the last with the ballet company.
I thought the film was ok but it is now considered a Disney animated classic. Well it does have Monica Evans, Carole Shelley and Brian Bedford doing some of the voices and major others as you can see.