Community residents are opposing plans to demolish the former cinema and other buildings on the block for a 15-story mixed-use tower. News report can be found here
The western spoof is probably best remembered for an uncredited performance by a future megastar as a singing-and-dancing showgirl.
Highlights can be viewed here
The B&W drama went on to earn eight nominations for the Academy Awards of 1947 and won three: Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan), and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm)…Opened at the Mayfair on the national holiday then known as Armistice Day and now observed as Veterans Day.
That color also appeared in the title of another of Stockwell’s most memorable films, “The Green Years,” in which he portrayed Tom Drake’s character as a child. The sentimental B&W drama was part of the Easter holiday offering at Radio City Music Hall in April, 1946. Ad previously uploaded here
Message recommends attendance at the Fox and Brooklyn Paramount, both also under Fabian management at the time. Adjacent Majestic was also closed temporarily. Across the street, RKO Orpheum offering Disney’s “Fantasia” & “Valley of the Sun.” Portion of Momart marquee visible behind that.
The revered actor, whose career started in childhood and spanned more than 70 years, died at his Los Angeles home on November 7th at age 85.
“The Boy With Green Hair” opened at the RKO Palace on January 12th, 1949, two months before Stockwell’s 13th birthday on March 5th.
This booking opened on October 29th, 1949, and was the start of a national re-release for “Johnny Eager,” which originally opened in NYC in February, 1942 at the Capitol Theatre during its “Everything on the Screen” policy.
Highest ticket price for adults was 44 cents for every night and all day on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Weekday matinees were 25 cents, with kids about half the adult prices at all times. Two weekly program changes were double bills created for the Loew’s and RKO circuits, but after they had finished their complete runs of those chains.
At that time, movie attendance was reaching all-time record highs, so many residents of Washington Heights probably visited both Loew’s 175th Street and RKO Coliseum in the same week to catch films that were first-run for the neighborhood.
A dispute has been raging over Covid-19 safeguards for this year’s “Christmas Spectacular,” which is due to open tomorrow. New York Times article can be found here
Almost certainly not this site, but with a partial name and a nearby location. Penn Garden may have been a storefront conversion that didn’t survive its premiere engagement, which had continuous performances from 10 AM to midnight.
Perhaps G&G operated the Boulevard at the very end of its cinema connection, but for most of that history it was Fox/Skouras and possibly United Artists when that circuit name change took place.
Colin Powell, the American statesman, diplomat, and four-star general who died recently at age 84, grew up in the South Bronx, and often reminisced about Saturday double-features at the Tiffany. The theatre was just a short walk from the apartment where his family lived for most of his boyhood, according to an article in The New York Times of October 24th, 2021.
Former child actress Jenny Agutter now has a leading role in the vastly popular British TV series, “Call the Midwife,” currently in its tenth season in America on PBS stations.
As predicted, Barbara Stanwyck earned an ‘Oscar’ nomination for her performance, but the Best Actress statuette went to Jane Wyman for “Johnny Belinda.”
Claimed to be the stage debut in Chicagoland for Laurel & Hardy, who were replacing the previous week’s Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra for an unexpected hold-over of “Knute Rockne All American.”
Community residents are opposing plans to demolish the former cinema and other buildings on the block for a 15-story mixed-use tower. News report can be found here
The western spoof is probably best remembered for an uncredited performance by a future megastar as a singing-and-dancing showgirl. Highlights can be viewed here
Opened on the federal holiday of Veterans Day, November 11th, 1971.
The B&W drama went on to earn eight nominations for the Academy Awards of 1947 and won three: Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan), and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm)…Opened at the Mayfair on the national holiday then known as Armistice Day and now observed as Veterans Day.
That color also appeared in the title of another of Stockwell’s most memorable films, “The Green Years,” in which he portrayed Tom Drake’s character as a child. The sentimental B&W drama was part of the Easter holiday offering at Radio City Music Hall in April, 1946. Ad previously uploaded here
Message recommends attendance at the Fox and Brooklyn Paramount, both also under Fabian management at the time. Adjacent Majestic was also closed temporarily. Across the street, RKO Orpheum offering Disney’s “Fantasia” & “Valley of the Sun.” Portion of Momart marquee visible behind that.
The revered actor, whose career started in childhood and spanned more than 70 years, died at his Los Angeles home on November 7th at age 85. “The Boy With Green Hair” opened at the RKO Palace on January 12th, 1949, two months before Stockwell’s 13th birthday on March 5th.
This booking opened on October 29th, 1949, and was the start of a national re-release for “Johnny Eager,” which originally opened in NYC in February, 1942 at the Capitol Theatre during its “Everything on the Screen” policy.
The Capitol debuted a year after the end of World War One, and was regarded as the largest cinema in the world until surpassed by NYC’s Roxy in 1927.
Highest ticket price for adults was 44 cents for every night and all day on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Weekday matinees were 25 cents, with kids about half the adult prices at all times. Two weekly program changes were double bills created for the Loew’s and RKO circuits, but after they had finished their complete runs of those chains.
At that time, movie attendance was reaching all-time record highs, so many residents of Washington Heights probably visited both Loew’s 175th Street and RKO Coliseum in the same week to catch films that were first-run for the neighborhood.
A dispute has been raging over Covid-19 safeguards for this year’s “Christmas Spectacular,” which is due to open tomorrow. New York Times article can be found here
Almost certainly not this site, but with a partial name and a nearby location. Penn Garden may have been a storefront conversion that didn’t survive its premiere engagement, which had continuous performances from 10 AM to midnight.
November 18, 2021 is yet to come. Has the site opened in “preview” mode?
Perhaps G&G operated the Boulevard at the very end of its cinema connection, but for most of that history it was Fox/Skouras and possibly United Artists when that circuit name change took place.
At that time, bookings at the Skouras Roosevelt were usually two weeks behind RKO Keith’s and Loew’s Prospect in downtown Flushing.
Keith’s Flushing among those theatres with a “Fun Party” on stage. Some others were presenting five acts of vaudeville.
“Late Shows Tonite!” at all theatres. The Kings was among those in their third program change for the “Big 5” promised for the Autumn season.
Snapped at entrance to the Rivoli Theatre, not the Rialto’s.
Colin Powell, the American statesman, diplomat, and four-star general who died recently at age 84, grew up in the South Bronx, and often reminisced about Saturday double-features at the Tiffany. The theatre was just a short walk from the apartment where his family lived for most of his boyhood, according to an article in The New York Times of October 24th, 2021.
Former child actress Jenny Agutter now has a leading role in the vastly popular British TV series, “Call the Midwife,” currently in its tenth season in America on PBS stations.
As predicted, Barbara Stanwyck earned an ‘Oscar’ nomination for her performance, but the Best Actress statuette went to Jane Wyman for “Johnny Belinda.”
The same screen would be used for Brooklyn’s introduction to CinemaScope with “The Robe” in December. Ad displayed here
Possibly because CT is still considered “Not Secure,” despite longtime promises by management to remedy that.
Claimed to be the stage debut in Chicagoland for Laurel & Hardy, who were replacing the previous week’s Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra for an unexpected hold-over of “Knute Rockne All American.”