If you do a search on previous posts on this page you will find answers to a lot of your questions.
Here is an example:
Cary Grant is the Music Hall’s alltime boxoffice champ.The
Music Hall played Twenty-seven of his films which played a
total of 113 weeks.
Fred Astaire is second place with Sixtheen films playing a
total of sixty weeks.
Greer Garson is the Queen of Radio City with Eleven films
playing a total of Seventy-Nine weeks.
Ginger Rogers had twenty-three films which played fifty-five
weeks.
Katherine Hepburn had twenty-two films which played sixty-four
weeks. Hepburn is the only performer,male or female,to have
seventeen successive films open at the Music Hall.
Note the above stats are from the 1979 Radio City Music Hall
by Charles Francisco.brucec
posted by brucec on Jul 11, 2004 at 2:05pm
“TORN CURTAIN” opened at the DeMille, Coronet and 34th St. East but that doesn’t mean she may not have attended a premier screening at the Music Hall. If she bought a ticket and walked in, it was not at the Music Hall.
In the teens, twenties and thirties, the areas around Park Row, the lower east side and Union Square challenged Times Square. The 166th Street and 125th Street areas also were well screened.
I had similar misgivings about submitting the Konover in Miami Beach. It was a hotel theatre and lounge that became a Loews theatre in the mid seventies for about a year before going back to live shows.
I am not sure what the policy is but this NYT review shows the “GIGI” premiere at the Royale.
“GIGI” indeed played the Royale for most of 1958 before moving to the Sutton. The Royale should qualify as it was not a special event booking, it was a roadshow run.
This was already the Reo in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook.
Myron,
If you do a search on previous posts on this page you will find answers to a lot of your questions.
Here is an example:
Cary Grant is the Music Hall’s alltime boxoffice champ.The
Music Hall played Twenty-seven of his films which played a
total of 113 weeks.
Fred Astaire is second place with Sixtheen films playing a
total of sixty weeks.
Greer Garson is the Queen of Radio City with Eleven films
playing a total of Seventy-Nine weeks.
Ginger Rogers had twenty-three films which played fifty-five
weeks.
Katherine Hepburn had twenty-two films which played sixty-four
weeks. Hepburn is the only performer,male or female,to have
seventeen successive films open at the Music Hall.
Note the above stats are from the 1979 Radio City Music Hall
by Charles Francisco.brucec
posted by brucec on Jul 11, 2004 at 2:05pm
This listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the Lenox House.
The Lane is already listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook.
“TORN CURTAIN” opened at the DeMille, Coronet and 34th St. East but that doesn’t mean she may not have attended a premier screening at the Music Hall. If she bought a ticket and walked in, it was not at the Music Hall.
I thought those lights were to alert the ushers to empty seats.
As the intro states, it was Spanish Baroque, Spanish Renaissance.
The last film was “The Wind Cannot Read”
In the teens, twenties and thirties, the areas around Park Row, the lower east side and Union Square challenged Times Square. The 166th Street and 125th Street areas also were well screened.
Colon is Spanish for Columbus, so the name change did have some merit.
Listed in the 1941 Film daily Yearbook as the BARCLAY.
A SUN THEATRE is listed at 2176 Third Avenue in the 1941 Film Daily Yearbook. Could this have been the Stadium?
There was a STAR THEATRE at 136 Third Avenue in the mid thirties, early forties. Does anyone have any info on that one?
Colon should be added as an aka name here.
The area certainly had its fair share of screens but I think Greenwich Village and the east 59th/60th zone almost always had more.
The 1941 Film Daily Yearbook has an 86th Street theatre at 121 East 86th Street.
Could that be the missing Loews?
This switched from newsreel to features in 1949.
The Florida was already open by 1941 according to the Film daily Yearbook.
The Modern was already open in 1941 according to the Film Daily yearbook.
Interesting find, Joe.
The Trans-Lux West name did not start until 1967, not 1963 as the intro states. The New York Times claims the original opening year was 1936.
An October 28 Miami Herald article claims that a splinter group of top ex-Muvico executives (Paragon Entertainment)will be taking over this site.
Go to:
Lost Memory on Aug 10, 2005 at 12:54pm
You will find the NY Times ad for “JAWS” on Friday, April 2, 1976, when the Robert F. Kennedy was the only Manhattan run.
They were mainstream movies advertised in the New York Times. “Jaws” was one of them.
I had similar misgivings about submitting the Konover in Miami Beach. It was a hotel theatre and lounge that became a Loews theatre in the mid seventies for about a year before going back to live shows.
I am not sure what the policy is but this NYT review shows the “GIGI” premiere at the Royale.
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“GIGI” indeed played the Royale for most of 1958 before moving to the Sutton. The Royale should qualify as it was not a special event booking, it was a roadshow run.