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Yeah it's about half way down the street and on the north side http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1078 I must admit that I was too young to experience those audiences on my own. I didn't turn 18 until 1985 and wasn't allowed unsupervised trips to the city until college. I didn't really have...

I really don't want to be contradictory, but you have that backwards. The New Amsterdam is on the south side of W 42nd Street facing north and hasn't moved. 8th Avenue is to the left if you're walking out the front door and 7th avenue is to the right. With the changeover from West/East...

It's funny you bring up the BAND WAGON (one of my favorites) because it's interesting that Fred Astaire doesn't really seem to remember where he is in that scene. The gestures of his head seem to place the New Amsterdam and the Selwyn ("Noel and Gertie had one of their biggest hits in PRIVATE...

According to the NY Daily News Archive at Newspapers.com it played the Selwyn on 42nd Street (now restored to a legitimate theater as the American Airlines) at the end of January 1990, right before it premiered on videocassette. In those late days of the Selwyn and the Deuce, it was hardly a...

I've told this story before so I apologize in advance to anyone who's heard it. I forced my friends to see this movie with me during the SINGLE week it played at the smallest auditorium in our mall multiplex back in November 1989. It seemed like YEARS before I was trusted to pick a movie after...