Times Square at Night, New York City, c. 1940-1941.

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Times Square at Night, New York City, c. 1940-1941.
Times Square at Night, New York City, c. 1940-1941.

Down left the marquee of the Astor Theatre indicates they showed Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which had its New York premiere on October 1940. The Astor opened in 1905 as a legitimate theatre but became mostly a cinema from 1925 on. See also cinematreasures.org/theater/518/. Top left publicity for the play Life with Father which opened on Broadway, New York, in 1939; it was turned into a movie in 1947. Down right Loew's State Theatre, where Gary Cooper can be seen in The Westerner (1940). Loew's State Theatre opened in 1921 and showed both vaudeville and cinema. For Loew's State Theatre, see cinematreasures.org/theater/557/ In the back the sign on he roof of the Capitol is visible. For Capitol. see cinematreasures.org/theater/522/

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