Comments from Gerald A. DeLuca

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Moosup Theatre on Nov 16, 2021 at 9:28 am

From Boxoffice, February 16, 1957: “The Moosup, Moosup, has a new policy of distributing a free gift to a lucky lady every Friday and Saturday night. The independent theatre has started a kitchenware giveaway on Monday nights.”

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Playpen Theatre on Nov 16, 2021 at 6:16 am

This is wrong! What you want is the Cameo on 42nd Street that later became the Bryant.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Playpen Theatre on Nov 16, 2021 at 6:15 am

This is wrong! What you want is the Cameo on 42nd Street that later became the Bryant.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Playpen Theatre on Nov 16, 2021 at 6:15 am

This is wrong! What you want is the Cameo on 42nd Street that later became the Bryant.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Playpen Theatre on Nov 16, 2021 at 6:06 am

August 1948.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Loew's Majestic Theatre on Nov 15, 2021 at 5:04 am

The co-feature was the 1955 “Cult of the Cobra.”

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Modern Theatre on Nov 15, 2021 at 5:00 am

“Four Ways Out” was a pretty good Pietro Germi film, shown here in a dubbed version.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Loew's State Theatre on Nov 15, 2021 at 4:56 am

I remember going to see Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch” at the Majestic in Providence when I was thirteen. I loved her. Who didn’t?

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Union Theater on Nov 15, 2021 at 4:53 am

Ad in Pawtucket (RI) Times.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Salt of the Earth on Nov 14, 2021 at 2:54 pm

Added to the National Film Registry in 1992, the film has been shown on TCM and can be watched in English or Spanish on YouTube.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Center Theatre on Nov 14, 2021 at 2:15 pm

Boxoffice Magazine.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about 1954 hurricane flooding. on Nov 14, 2021 at 11:39 am

Hurricane flooding.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Nov 14, 2021 at 6:17 am

The Catholic Diocese of Providence warned Catholics at masses that going to see this film would be a mortal sin. I remember it all well.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Carlton Theatre on Nov 13, 2021 at 5:22 pm

The March 27, 1954 issue of Boxoffice Magazine has a long article entitled “Death of Carlton Mourned like Old Friend.” Google “Boxoffice-March.27.1954” and the issue should come up.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Samuel Bomes obit. on Nov 13, 2021 at 1:01 pm

Note what was said here about the construction of the Hollywood Theatre in East Providence. The negative attitude of the city was also seen in the years leading up to the theatre’s razing in 2008, when they could have made efforts to save the building.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Capri Theater on Nov 13, 2021 at 5:25 am

I saw this film here during this run. I was seventeen.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Majestic Theatre on Nov 13, 2021 at 5:22 am

I went here with my parents during the opening run. I was eleven.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about "The Robe" premiere. on Nov 13, 2021 at 5:20 am

I went to the film here, with my parents, during the opening run. I was eleven years old.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Strand Theater on Nov 12, 2021 at 1:52 pm

“The Lovers” = “Amanti in fuga” (1946).

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Paramount Theatre on Nov 12, 2021 at 12:13 pm

In the Diocese of Providence announcements were made in all Catholic churches that it would be a mortal sin for any Catholics to see this movie.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Woods Theatre on Nov 12, 2021 at 11:48 am

In Providence announcements were made in all Catholic churches that it would be a mortal sin for any Catholics to see this movie.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Little Theatre on Nov 12, 2021 at 4:41 am

The Italian film “The Little World of Don Camillo” had its American premiere here at the Lincoln at the end of December 1952 according to a blurb in Boxoffice Magazine on January 3, 1953.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about 55th Street Playhouse on Nov 10, 2021 at 10:30 am

The film played in January 1952.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Loew's State Theatre on Nov 10, 2021 at 10:07 am

Opening date: April 12, 1952.

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Gerald A. DeLuca commented about Loew's State Theatre on Nov 10, 2021 at 9:57 am

According to Boxoffice Magazine, this was the first time a foreign-language film played a large New York theatre in its original-language version with subtitles.