The old Miami opened in 1937 and became the Town in 1946 when the Miami above was about to open, according to Boxoffice Magazine.
I previously suspected there may have been another silent House called Miami in that still standing tall Hotel building in the postcards but have record of one.
Thanks, Ken! Reminds me of New York where Cinema 3, a single screen inside the Plaza Hotel, was blocks away from Cinema I & II and it got even stranger when separate companies operated the two locations. The matter was further complicated by the Plaza Theatre located between the two, making it a scavenger hunt for tourists trying to find their movie.
Well, good films open and close immediately in NYC once that is in the ad. Avoid Magnolia Six Shooter Films like the plague. They kill them before they open.
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 Valentino name started at the 1993 re-opening.
Louis,
The old Miami opened in 1937 and became the Town in 1946 when the Miami above was about to open, according to Boxoffice Magazine.
I previously suspected there may have been another silent House called Miami in that still standing tall Hotel building in the postcards but have record of one.
Thanks, Ken! Reminds me of New York where Cinema 3, a single screen inside the Plaza Hotel, was blocks away from Cinema I & II and it got even stranger when separate companies operated the two locations. The matter was further complicated by the Plaza Theatre located between the two, making it a scavenger hunt for tourists trying to find their movie.
Ken, where were Studios 1-5?
Well, good films open and close immediately in NYC once that is in the ad. Avoid Magnolia Six Shooter Films like the plague. They kill them before they open.
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.