Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>When FDR came to Town</p>
  • <p>December 12, 1963.This was a revival of the Christmas-appropriate film originally shown in the U.S. as “Never Take No for an Answer.” A British-Italian co-production. It had already played in Providence about a decade earlier.</p>
  • <p>Welcome to the Wareham… candy counter is just beyond the ticket taker. Circa December of 1947.</p>
  • <p>1941</p>
  • <p>December 1953, “Kiss Me Kate” in 3-D.</p>
  • <p>July 10, 1957. Opening day ad for the drive-in.</p>
  • <p>The Nickel (Strand/Olympia) on the left was across from Lynch’s Theatre (later Rialto) on the right.</p>
  • <p>Lynch’s Theatre (later Rialto) on the right was across from the Nickel (Strand/Olympia) on the left.</p>
  • <p>Poster for the Star Theatre. “Mamma Luntana” or “Mamma Lontana” was a 1923 Italian silent film. Photo courtesy Brian Edmund Guiot.</p>
  • <p>The proscenium of the Majestic Theatre appears on the cover of Roger Brett’s book “Temples of Illusion,” a history of the downtown Providence movie theatres.</p>
  • <p>In 1963.</p>
  • <p>Mid 1950s.</p>
  • <p>1930s flyer. After “Should a Doctor Tell?” (1930) with “Tomorrow at Seven( 1933) will come Dreyer’s "The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928).</p>
  • <p>Photo from 1946. “Canyon Passage” on the marquee of the Laurier Theatre.</p>
  • <p>1944 (or so) program.</p>
  • <p>The Paris Cinema is visible in this February 1978 photo taken during the great blizzard.</p>
  • <p>A Godard film.</p>
  • <p>From video by Linda Roy.</p>
  • <p>It’s the 1946 world premiere of the film, “Open City” from Italy from Mayer and Burstyn distributors. And the World Theatre has been wrapped in the film for great exploitation showmanship.</p>
  • <p>Remodeled marquee (1961)</p>
  • <p>Night exterior fo the Fifth Avenue Cinema in New York on April 6, 1954 with “The Diary of a Country Priest.”</p>
  • <p>Mid `50s photo via Jai Sotomayor.</p>
  • <p>1924 photo courtesy David Crowell.</p>