Loew's Jersey Theatre
54 Journal Square,
Jersey City,
NJ
07306
54 Journal Square,
Jersey City,
NJ
07306
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That’s a pretty interesting double feature from that picture. “From Russia with Love” and “Twice-Told Tales” with Vincent Price.
Too bad that beautiful vertical sign is no longer extant. I heard that it had to come down because of structural issues. Oh well. Maybe someday we’ll be seeing a replica put up, as has been done at Shea’s in Buffalo and at the Fox in St. Louis.
Picture.. 1964.. behind the bus..
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?650
Kudos to the FOL! Great season of classic films, especially with your screening of “The Uninvited”. You folks really came through on your promise.
I’m already looking forward the fall season…. I hope there will be more mystery, horror and science fiction.
Once again, thank you for all of your hard work, FOL.. You guys are the best!
Wow, very nice.
Excellent photo composition.
Thought this would be of interest…
(Boxoffice Magazine 1/13/75 (Eastern Edition) p.E-3)
“The new Loews triplex in Jersey City recently reopened following conversion and thus far business is reported to be very good, according to manager Ann Rauch. Theatre 1, which had been the balcony in the original house, now seats 1,078. The original downstairs, now divided into Theatre 2 and Theatre 3, seats 524 in each of the new units. Reopening attractions were "Amazing Grace”, “Scenes From a Marriage”, and “Murder on the Orient Express.” The original Loews' Jersey City Theatre was opened more than 50 years ago. This is the first of the so-called “movie palaces” in the North Jersey area, most fo which are located in cities such as Newark, Paterson, Passaic, as well as Jersey City, that has undergone conversion from single to multi-unit operation."
Beautiful photos of a beautiful theater.
This coming Saturday, May 30th The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre located on Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey will be presenting the first of our final 2 shows of the season.
The Landmark Loews Jersey is located directly across from the PATH subway station connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, it is also easy to reach from most area highways.
All Show Are Presented In 35mm With Genuine Carbon Arc Projection.
Saturday May 30th at 6:00pm – The Uninvited (1944) â€" Rescheduled from an earlier date with a newly struck print!
Saturday May 30th at 8:15pm – Rebecca (1940) â€" Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller.
The following weekend, June 5th and 6th, an animation weekend as our final shows of the season.
Friday June 5th at 8:00pm – Spirited Away (2001) â€" Acclaimed Japanese animated feature film about a little girl lost in a surreal world. Dubbed into English Version.
Saturday June 6th at 3:00pm â€" A collection of classic cartoons from the golden age of Hollywood, all in 35mm!
Saturday June 6th at 7:30pm – Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) â€" I know who framed him, do you?
Visit The Landmark Loews Jersey web site for details.
[size=1]The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre[/size]
It is the dubbed English version – Lauren Holly, Michael Chiklis, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Daveigh Chase, John Ratzenberger and David Ogden Stiers are among the large cast providing voices.
Since this is intended to be a “family-friendly†show (and not a foreign film festival), I doubt that the audience FOL is trying to attract would want to suffer through over two hours of Japanese-language dialogue with English subtitles (sorry to those “purists†out there). There have been exceptions, where only original, foreign-language versions of family films were available (such as “White Mane").
Alto, is that the original foreign-language version of “Spirited Away” with subtitles. or is it the dubbed American version?
Announced this past weekend: the film season will conclude with great family entertainment â€" animated classics! (Exact times TBA soon)
5 June – Friday
Evening feature: “Spirited Away†(2001, 2:05)
6 June â€" Saturday
Late afternoon: classic animated shorts (Looney Tunes, Betty Boop, etc.)
Evening feature: “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?†(1988, 1:44)
Great video, pjacyk. It really captures the awe and wonder of the Loew’s Jersey and her great Robert Morton organ. One can only hope that it will inspire even more people to come to the show.
Tonight: “Dinner at Eight” at 6:00 pm and “The General” at 8:30 pm.
Don’t miss it. It is the golden age of Hollywood come to life in 2009.
A video with scenes from the movie pre-show a few weeks ago. The super organ is shown too filling the whole theatre with music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJxdVT51szc&fmt=18
Ralph Ringstad, Jr. will be playing. Go to The Garden State Theatre Organ Society for more info on the organ.
Very nice photo: well-balanced and moody. Really shows off the digninty of the place.
Can you tell us who is going to play the organ for the movie Saturday night? I’m looking forward to making the double feature.
This coming weekend, May 15th and 16th, The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre located on Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey will be presenting 3 more classic films from the golden age of motion pictures.
The Landmark Loews Jersey was the last of the five Loews Wonder Theatres built in the New York City metro area. Opened in 1929, it has been entertaining area movie goers ever since. The theatre is currently being operated and restored by the volunteer organization Friends Of The Loews. Located directly across from the PATH subway station connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, it is also easy to reach from most area highways.
All Show Are Presented In 35mm With Genuine Carbon Arc Projection.
Friday May 15th at 8pm – It Happened One Night (1934) â€" Frank Capra’s screwball comedy featuring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
Saturday May 15th at 6:00pm – Dinner At Eight (1933) â€" Staring John and Lionel Barrymore along with Jean Harlow.
Saturday May 15th at 8:30pm – The General (1927) â€" Buster Keaton’s silent comedy classic with live organ accompaniment on the Loews Jersey Theatre’s Morton Wonder Pipe Organ.
Visit The Landmark Loews Jersey web site for details.
[size=1]The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre[/size]
More “spring chills” – Saturday evening, May 30th – “bonus” May films:
6:00 PM: The Uninvited (1944, 1:39) – starred Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp.
(“make-up” screening for March 27th – yes, it will be the correct print!)
8:15 PM: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940, 2:10) – starred Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders.
Thanks MBD,
Great to hear that “The Uninvited” has been scheduled for the end of May !
I can’t think of a better venue for this terrific ghost story than the grand, old Loews Jersey. What a perfect match.
Bob
“The Uninvited” is scheduled for Saturday May 30th, tentatively paired with “Rebeca” on the same evening.
The weekend of May 15-16 we will be presenting “It Happened One Night”, “Dinner At 8”, and silent film “The General”. See the theatre’s web page for more info on this show.
Does anyone know if they will be showing “The Uninvited” at the end of May? I know they said they were tentatively aiming to have a new print by that time. Thanks.
Great clip! Thanks. Wish I could have seen the film at the Loew’s.
Thanks, Gabe, for that Jack Benny/Groucho clip. YouTube is such a wonderful source for old ‘50s TV clips. Here’s another one: Arlene Dahl as the mystery guest on “What’s My Line?” in 1959, plugging “Journey to the Center of the Earth”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTbcvphPWv4
The GREAT Loew’s Jersey Wonder Organ does it again (in full stereo hi-fi)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgfA9_BEuSg&fmt=18
with a band in the pit—yet (with an orchestra lift that goes up and down).
My understanding is that the Loew’s Jersey is the 10th largest remaining theater in America (give or take a few); and I think its future is very bright.
Well, I’m sure these are enough posts for one night. I hope my love for the place comes through my writing.
Folks, this was the wonderful theatrical reality of the Loew’s Jersey at one time. In addition to being a “Temple of the Motion Picture Art” is was also a grand old vaudeville house (for a very few and much too short number of years):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efvfxmJDGQ
It was New York vaudeville, only better and a little looser.
“Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Jean Harlow, Burns and Allen, Bing Crosby, Bill Robinson, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Cab Calloway, to name just a few” were regulars at the Loew’s. Today, this boggles the mind.
Jack Benny was often the MC at the Loew’s Jersey in the early 1930s. At that time this theatre was “classy” and not the somewhat dusty though wonderful place we know today. The place deserved and got an elegant and urbane and very funny announcer.
Typical Loew’s Jersey entertainment from the middle 20th Century. The LJ was as smart and as bright and as mainstream as you could get in America in the mid-20th Century:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wNK1Jt4JLg
Back then the ushers said, “no standing in the aisles, please stand behind the ropes, there are plenty of seats in the upper balcony.” They even had a coat check room.