Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <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>
  • <p>Summer of 1948, “Tap Roots.” Video capture.</p>
  • <p>October 19, 1934</p>
  • <p>In May 1948. Second run of FURIA and SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE at the Apollo with display of the Italian film FURIA in front. From a video on YouTube.</p>
  • <p>December 22, 1937 NYT review and poster for 1936 Italian film comedy.</p>
  • <p>Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in Times Square in 1966. “The Bible” is playing at Loew’s State. Pasolini’s “Gospel Acording to St. Matthew” opened in New York in February of that year.</p>