Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>In 1957.</p>
  • <p>Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini near the Victoria in 1966.</p>
  • <p>August 18, 1947. Nemo Theatre marquee partially visible, left. Films: HONEYMOON with Franchot Tone & RIFF-RAFF with Pat O'Brien and Walter Slezak.</p>
  • <p>June 21, 1947</p>
  • <p>NYT blurb April 24, 1943 announcing Italian film LA MIA CANZONE AL VENTO, plus photo.</p>
  • <p>Showing of “Buddy.”</p>
  • <p>1931 Pagliacci film shown here in 1934. Italian films and opera-related films were often shown here in former decades.</p>
  • <p>This 1940 Italian musical-romance played here in December 1950.</p>
  • <p>December 24, 1950</p>
  • <p>The poster and ad campaign along with patriotic fever swept through Broadway as audiences filled every show of 1918’s patriotic “The Kaiser”</p>
  • <p>November 14, 1947. (Made in 1939)</p>
  • <p>Lobby.</p>
  • <p>Entrance as Schine’s Hippodrome (1937)</p>
  • <p>A glorious front by the Rialto Theatre and its manager William Leggiere. The stair steps were illuminated with floodlights as was the giant cutouts of the characters of the film, “7th Heaven” in 1927.</p>
  • <p>Photograph taken 1969 the Roxy now Bingo,on the left side entrance above front of car the projection box door can be seen at top with fixtures below where iron stair rails were once fixed.</p>
  • <p>The State Theatre just prior to a 1947 makeover.</p>
  • <p>Opening advertisement.</p>
  • <p>Photo from 1896 (Jacob Riis) of Mulberry Street area. Poster visible of the play “Lost, Strayed or Stolen” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. It opened there in September of that year.</p>