Roxy Theatre

153 W. 50th Street,
New York, NY 10020

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Return Engagement (October, 1960)

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Comfortably Cool on August 10, 2018 at 4:06 pm

Photographer Eliot Elisofon carries Gloria Swanson into the debris of the Roxy Theatre for what resulted in a now legendary color photo in the November 7th, 1960 issue of Life Magazine

Comfortably Cool on August 10, 2018 at 4:13 pm

In 1927, Swanson’s “The Loves of Sunya” was the opening film at the Roxy Theatre, which fell to the wrecking ball just 33 years later.

classictheaters on May 28, 2022 at 9:31 pm

Many of us feel that the destruction of this landmark Palace was ‘a crime against New York’ (along with the Brooklyn Fox, Academy Of Music 14th Street, and others