I saw Hello Dolly here before it went into wide release. I believe it was 70MM Todd AO. If somebody could find an opening ad that would help. The screen was flat.
Great news about removal of false arch. Now to remove those god awful speakers and truly restore the place like they claim they’ve done multiple times and it was nothing but lies.
First night bombed. It was in Variety at the time. People for some reason were confused and thought the whole house was for the charity event.
The bluray is beautiful. Not a very interesting script and Olivier is for some reason completely without charm but Monroe is at her most luminescent. Must have been wonderful seeing her on the Music Hall screen. I think it was Thorndyke who said to Olivier during filming “She’s stealing the film from you.‘ And does she ever.
Premiere at Radio City Music Hall on youtube. Kwan, Rodgers, Celeste Holm, and Henny Youngman being politically incorrect. Shot of orchestra during overture of stage show.
Wonderful bluray out in stereo with one of the best opening title sequences ever.
Got to see it at Music Hall in the late 70s when they had morning movie musical revivals. A couple of R and H’s most beautiful songs.
Wow it’s been a long time since anybody’s posted about this great theater. I guess there are few around who remember it in its glory days. In any case it was two days ago that 60 years ago The Sound of Music had its world premiere here on March 2nd 1965. In the cinema world an important event. I was too young to have been aware of its run here but I would see in the Bergen Record ads for it playing at the north Jersey roadshow theater the Bellevue in Montclair.
I wouldn’t see it in 70MM until ‘75 at Radio City which was one of the most beautiful film prints I can remember seeing.
DavidMShapass-Surely they must be of interest to The Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center or The Museum of the City of NY.
I’ve often wondered what happened to the films Leonidoff took of the stage shows at Radio City and the beautiful Impact photos that used to be on display outside the theater. I would give anything to see films of the big production numbers like Bolero, Serenade to the Stars, Court of Jewels, Rhapsody in Blue, The Great March, The Undersea Ballet, Milady’s Fan,…I did see a few of them on stage but most I did not.
‘“THE BIG TRAIL” premiered in 70mm GRANDEUR in October 1930 at the Roxy. “KISMET” opened the following week in 65mm at the Hollywood.’
And they made no splash?
All I’ve heard about was The Bat Whispers which I saw years ago at MOMA in its 70MM version and now it’s been released on bluray along with its 1.33(or is it 1.37?) version.
I don’t remember them being discussed in Martin Hart’s Widescreen Museum. I’ll have to read that more closely. I somehow missed them. Do they still exist in 70?
This was a beautiful single screen theater. No loss to the community that its life as a quad is over. Would be nice if it were restored to its single screen beauty otherwise it might as well be a supermarket.
Oh yes! That was the Manhattan my parents knew going to movies and plays. I think I’ve written this before but my mother said if the line was too long at Radio City you would go to the Roxy. I guess you didn’t care all that much what movie was playing, you just went to see the show.
I was as well a small child. If my parents cared about such things as we lived close to Manhattan, I could have seen the Roxy, The Paramount, the Capitol, the old Met and Pennsylvania station. Nobody but me seems to know that the destruction of all these magnificent NY building precipitated the fall of midtown by 1970 which was to get considerably worse during the 70s and 80s. And then Koch, Giuliani and Disney came along to make it 100 times worse.
That added fake arch and the speakers in the auditorium have totally ruined the place. They are inexcusable. And didn’t they ruin the fluidity of the curtain? So much for its art-deco splendor.
The last stage show with the ballet company diminishing the Music Hall’s stage presentations greatly. Never again would it have spectacle except for The Nativity and Glory of Easter again.
I saw Hello Dolly here before it went into wide release. I believe it was 70MM Todd AO. If somebody could find an opening ad that would help. The screen was flat.
This isn’t NY Loew’s Capitol. I can’t even make out the name of the theater. But clearly a first run downtown house. But where?
Great news about removal of false arch. Now to remove those god awful speakers and truly restore the place like they claim they’ve done multiple times and it was nothing but lies.
In less than 10 years all of this would be over.
One of the very very few decent films the Music Hall played in the 70s. It was such a relief. I thought finally the Music Hall shows a watchable film!
It would be interesting to know what he got that week with those ticket prices.
So the Rockettes are kicking while Nome burns. Well why not. And Dame Edith Evans is also on stage appearing in the finale.
First night bombed. It was in Variety at the time. People for some reason were confused and thought the whole house was for the charity event.
The bluray is beautiful. Not a very interesting script and Olivier is for some reason completely without charm but Monroe is at her most luminescent. Must have been wonderful seeing her on the Music Hall screen. I think it was Thorndyke who said to Olivier during filming “She’s stealing the film from you.‘ And does she ever.
Premiere at Radio City Music Hall on youtube. Kwan, Rodgers, Celeste Holm, and Henny Youngman being politically incorrect. Shot of orchestra during overture of stage show. Wonderful bluray out in stereo with one of the best opening title sequences ever. Got to see it at Music Hall in the late 70s when they had morning movie musical revivals. A couple of R and H’s most beautiful songs.
Good movie and not well known. Worth seeking out.
Lord Jim must have had an incredibly short run at Loew’s State. I remember seeing it at the drive-in that summer.
Wow it’s been a long time since anybody’s posted about this great theater. I guess there are few around who remember it in its glory days. In any case it was two days ago that 60 years ago The Sound of Music had its world premiere here on March 2nd 1965. In the cinema world an important event. I was too young to have been aware of its run here but I would see in the Bergen Record ads for it playing at the north Jersey roadshow theater the Bellevue in Montclair.
I wouldn’t see it in 70MM until ‘75 at Radio City which was one of the most beautiful film prints I can remember seeing.
Not quite. An ad with the March of Time title pasted within a photo of the Music Hall interior. An early crude version of photo shop.
DavidMShapass-Surely they must be of interest to The Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center or The Museum of the City of NY.
I’ve often wondered what happened to the films Leonidoff took of the stage shows at Radio City and the beautiful Impact photos that used to be on display outside the theater. I would give anything to see films of the big production numbers like Bolero, Serenade to the Stars, Court of Jewels, Rhapsody in Blue, The Great March, The Undersea Ballet, Milady’s Fan,…I did see a few of them on stage but most I did not.
‘“THE BIG TRAIL” premiered in 70mm GRANDEUR in October 1930 at the Roxy. “KISMET” opened the following week in 65mm at the Hollywood.’
And they made no splash? All I’ve heard about was The Bat Whispers which I saw years ago at MOMA in its 70MM version and now it’s been released on bluray along with its 1.33(or is it 1.37?) version. I don’t remember them being discussed in Martin Hart’s Widescreen Museum. I’ll have to read that more closely. I somehow missed them. Do they still exist in 70?
Interesting. I’ve never heard that about the Roxy. In terms of widescreen all I’ve ever heard about was The Robe.
Are you confusing the Rivoli with the Roxy? The Bat Whispers in 70MM played at the Rivoli. Was Fox planning an early 70MM film at the Roxy?
Thank you!
Thank you but I meant on a page on this site. I went through them all but did not see it. I could be that I overlooked it.
I’ve never seen the Sunday full page NY Times' ad for Scrooge the ‘70 Christmas movie or even the opening day ad. Is it on a page I’ve missed?
This was a beautiful single screen theater. No loss to the community that its life as a quad is over. Would be nice if it were restored to its single screen beauty otherwise it might as well be a supermarket.
Oh yes! That was the Manhattan my parents knew going to movies and plays. I think I’ve written this before but my mother said if the line was too long at Radio City you would go to the Roxy. I guess you didn’t care all that much what movie was playing, you just went to see the show.
I was as well a small child. If my parents cared about such things as we lived close to Manhattan, I could have seen the Roxy, The Paramount, the Capitol, the old Met and Pennsylvania station. Nobody but me seems to know that the destruction of all these magnificent NY building precipitated the fall of midtown by 1970 which was to get considerably worse during the 70s and 80s. And then Koch, Giuliani and Disney came along to make it 100 times worse.
That added fake arch and the speakers in the auditorium have totally ruined the place. They are inexcusable. And didn’t they ruin the fluidity of the curtain? So much for its art-deco splendor.
The last stage show with the ballet company diminishing the Music Hall’s stage presentations greatly. Never again would it have spectacle except for The Nativity and Glory of Easter again.