I recently saw “THIS IS IT” and “PRECIOUS” with disrespectful boisterous audiences in Times Square. Both were weekday matinee performances and both were sold out.
This is the same old argument of “no one goes anymore because it is too crowded”.
Distributors have been stupidly undermining the theatre business for years without success. Nothing says “this movie sucks” as efficiently as the term “also available on VIDEO ON DEMAND”.
If you do a search on previous posts on this page you will find answers to a lot of your questions.
Here is an example:
Cary Grant is the Music Hall’s alltime boxoffice champ.The
Music Hall played Twenty-seven of his films which played a
total of 113 weeks.
Fred Astaire is second place with Sixtheen films playing a
total of sixty weeks.
Greer Garson is the Queen of Radio City with Eleven films
playing a total of Seventy-Nine weeks.
Ginger Rogers had twenty-three films which played fifty-five
weeks.
Katherine Hepburn had twenty-two films which played sixty-four
weeks. Hepburn is the only performer,male or female,to have
seventeen successive films open at the Music Hall.
Note the above stats are from the 1979 Radio City Music Hall
by Charles Francisco.brucec
posted by brucec on Jul 11, 2004 at 2:05pm
“TORN CURTAIN” opened at the DeMille, Coronet and 34th St. East but that doesn’t mean she may not have attended a premier screening at the Music Hall. If she bought a ticket and walked in, it was not at the Music Hall.
In the teens, twenties and thirties, the areas around Park Row, the lower east side and Union Square challenged Times Square. The 166th Street and 125th Street areas also were well screened.
The 1942 Film Daily Year Book lists this (perhaps erroneously)as an RKO location.
This is listed as the AIR LINES theatre in the 1942 Film daily Year Book.
I recently saw “THIS IS IT” and “PRECIOUS” with disrespectful boisterous audiences in Times Square. Both were weekday matinee performances and both were sold out.
This is the same old argument of “no one goes anymore because it is too crowded”.
Distributors have been stupidly undermining the theatre business for years without success. Nothing says “this movie sucks” as efficiently as the term “also available on VIDEO ON DEMAND”.
This was already listed as a movie house in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
This is already listed as the Victory in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
This theatre is listed as open in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
Listed in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book as the closed Town Playhouse.
The new Paramount Hotel and theatre post card.
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The 1937 Film Daily Yearbook lists as De Luxe theatre at 125th street and St. Nicholas. I suspect it was this site as the Sunset is listed as well.
This showed movies as the Princess in 1915-1916.
My mistake, it is listed as the Rexy.
This is listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the closed Roxy.
This was already the Reo in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook.
Myron,
If you do a search on previous posts on this page you will find answers to a lot of your questions.
Here is an example:
Cary Grant is the Music Hall’s alltime boxoffice champ.The
Music Hall played Twenty-seven of his films which played a
total of 113 weeks.
Fred Astaire is second place with Sixtheen films playing a
total of sixty weeks.
Greer Garson is the Queen of Radio City with Eleven films
playing a total of Seventy-Nine weeks.
Ginger Rogers had twenty-three films which played fifty-five
weeks.
Katherine Hepburn had twenty-two films which played sixty-four
weeks. Hepburn is the only performer,male or female,to have
seventeen successive films open at the Music Hall.
Note the above stats are from the 1979 Radio City Music Hall
by Charles Francisco.brucec
posted by brucec on Jul 11, 2004 at 2:05pm
This listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the Lenox House.
The Lane is already listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook.
“TORN CURTAIN” opened at the DeMille, Coronet and 34th St. East but that doesn’t mean she may not have attended a premier screening at the Music Hall. If she bought a ticket and walked in, it was not at the Music Hall.
I thought those lights were to alert the ushers to empty seats.
As the intro states, it was Spanish Baroque, Spanish Renaissance.
The last film was “The Wind Cannot Read”
In the teens, twenties and thirties, the areas around Park Row, the lower east side and Union Square challenged Times Square. The 166th Street and 125th Street areas also were well screened.
Colon is Spanish for Columbus, so the name change did have some merit.
Listed in the 1941 Film daily Yearbook as the BARCLAY.
A SUN THEATRE is listed at 2176 Third Avenue in the 1941 Film Daily Yearbook. Could this have been the Stadium?
There was a STAR THEATRE at 136 Third Avenue in the mid thirties, early forties. Does anyone have any info on that one?
Colon should be added as an aka name here.