New York’s two largest showplaces opened new programs on the same day, as well as at the same morning times…Peck & Bacall helped to draw more customers than Tracy & Hepburn. The Music Hall had a first week’s gross of abount $143,000, while the Roxy did $70,000, according to trade press reports. The Roxy had been expecting more with “teen idol” Tommy Sands on stage, but many of his fans may have been too young to attend unaccompanied.
The reunion of “Gaslight” co-stars, which reportedly cost $5 million to produce, proved one of the worst disasters of the decade, alienating critics and public alike.
Loew’s Prospect and Valencia are most prominent, but at least one poster for RKO Keith’s on the side wall. Two outdated posters for the Taft on the second floor front give a gala opening date of Thursday, December 31st, 1931.
The B&W feature was direct from a week’s run in midtown Manhattan at the Roxy Theatre, with different stage offering. Both showplaces were verging on bankruptcy proceedings due to the Depression and William Fox’s financial woes.
New York’s two largest showplaces opened new programs on the same day, as well as at the same morning times…Peck & Bacall helped to draw more customers than Tracy & Hepburn. The Music Hall had a first week’s gross of abount $143,000, while the Roxy did $70,000, according to trade press reports. The Roxy had been expecting more with “teen idol” Tommy Sands on stage, but many of his fans may have been too young to attend unaccompanied.
Listed with “Honey” on screen, the Uptown was often linked with the Paradise and Tivoli as the “Big Three” of B&K neighborhood houses.
An opening day ad was previously uploaded by someone who actually worked there at the time as a member of the ushering staff
The great French star’s career and tragic death during WWII are described here
The reunion of “Gaslight” co-stars, which reportedly cost $5 million to produce, proved one of the worst disasters of the decade, alienating critics and public alike.
Screen star Danielle Darrieux joined the heavenly angels last October at age 100. The last film of her prolific career was “8 Femmes” in 2002.
Kings listed with “Paratrooper” as top feature.
The premiere engagement of “Panic” in 1947 was at the Rialto Theatre in Times Square
Ridgewood’s large German-American population was credited with the B&W shocker breaking all attendance records at the Madison.
Jersey City and Newark with “The Courtship of Andy Hardy” as top feature.
The Gaiety, which shared a Broadway blockfront with the Astor Theatre, is probably most remembered for its later name as Victoria.
Gaiety Theatre (not Gayety).
Seventy-five years later, the Technicolor epic is still thrilling TV viewers in frequent rotation on the Fox Movies-On-Demand channel.
Movies were obviously not the main attraction during this phase of the Rialto’s history.
The supporting feature was part of Universal’s “Sherlock Holmes” series, which brought the sleuth into contemporary times.
The New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 had recently opened adjacent to Flushing, Queens, but the Fisk showed no signs of joining in the celebration.
Back page of programme for the week of May 28th, 1959, when “Ask Any Girl” was the screen attraction, with “Camera Holiday” filling the stage.
The Flushing was re-launched as the Taft on New Year’s Eve, 1931, according to posters displayed in this vintage photo of February, 1932
Loew’s Prospect and Valencia are most prominent, but at least one poster for RKO Keith’s on the side wall. Two outdated posters for the Taft on the second floor front give a gala opening date of Thursday, December 31st, 1931.
Advertised with a “Honey” of a movie here
“Lassie Come Home” had just opened there to the highest attendance since the record-breaking “Random Harvest.”
The B&W feature was direct from a week’s run in midtown Manhattan at the Roxy Theatre, with different stage offering. Both showplaces were verging on bankruptcy proceedings due to the Depression and William Fox’s financial woes.
But it wasn’t the 50th anniversary of release when uploaded in 2016.
According to business reports in Variety at the time, the Music Hall had 5,945 seats, the Roxy 5,886, and the Capitol 4,820.
New York premiere engagement opened on April 24th,1968 at the Astor and 86th St. East.