Grand Pussycat Cinema
1607 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10019
1607 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10019
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Saw Morrisey’s ‘Flesh For Frankenstein’ here in 3D.
Fleshy ogans came very close to the audience members which cracked everyone up.
The skyscraper hotel the Trans-Lux 49th Street and the World Theatres were demolished to make room for and which is referenced in the initial description above is the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
In the mid 70s after Trans Lux gave it up, it had a short identity as the Bryanston West…Bryanston being the releasing company that was releasing the Andy Warhol Frankenstein in 3D series…Then a very short life as just the WEST…Doubt anyone visited this theatre deliberately under that identity
Here are the Burtons day and dating at Trans-Lux and the Sutton
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I’ve just seen (again) “Sweet Smell of Success”. I saw it last summer before I became a tad obsessed with this website so I had no idea what I was looking at. Now that I know, I kept my eyes open.
BOY..do you get an eyeful of the movie theaters in Times Square in this flick. I only watched the first 1/3 of the movie (didn’t get a chance to sit through the whole thing again). But J.J. Hunsecker’s apartment is supposed to be in the Brill Building. So in one shot, we see his sister Susan entering the building and you get a perfect view of the Trans Lux with it’s HUGE marquee shining in the backgroun. I knew that The Rivoli is right across the street, but I couldn’t get a decent look at it. Was there at one time a Howard Johnson’s next door to The Rivoli? In the scene, it looked like there was.
The movie’s great too.
My office is in the Brill Building.
OMG, I didn’t even notice that.
Looking at the few photos that RobertR just posted, especially the one with the Capitol in the backgrond. If you look at it closely, it’s not the theatre located at 1607 Broadway. It looks like that this theatre in the picture in located at 1619 Broadway in the Brill Building where the electronic store is now and were Jack Demsey’s Bar was. The photo dates 1935 from the marquee on the Capitol Theatre with “Mutiny on the Bounty” engagement.
It was renamed Embassy 49th st in the late 70’s. It didn’t last long. They relocated the Embassy 49 to the old World theater on 49th and that didn’t last long.
Look at how deco this was.
This shot also shows the Capitol in the background.
I never knew this place once had such a huge marquee.
I think this theatre was renamed the EMBASSY 49, across from the Circus Cinema. You can see a great shot of both marquees on the DVD for season one of the TV series TAXI.
I remember all that neon for the Grand Pussycat, the background was blue with the name of the theatre in bright red.
This was the theatre that opened “FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE” in 1967 on showcase.
During the WW2 era in New York City, Trans Lux also operated newsreel theaters at 33 50th Street, Madison Avenue at 60th Street and on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn at the Astor Theater building. Two theaters operating as Trans Lux showed regular feature films at 4th Ave. near 52nd Street and Madison at 85th Street.
I believe Bell, Book and Candle & Middle of the Night both opened at this theatre. In that time frame it was showing first run films.
In 1974 I saw a Russian documentary here called “The Great Battle,” about the taking of Berlin in WWII.
The first time I went into New York City to see a movie without my parents (age 14), it was at the Trans-Lux West: Rod Steiger in Ray Bradbury’s “The Illustrated Man”. So many memories come back unexpectedly when I look at this great website.
The Brattle in Cambridge, Massachusetts uses rear-projection.
I saw “Woodstock” here and I recall it being a small unattractive theater.