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Photographer Eliot Elisofon carries Gloria Swanson into the debris of the Roxy Theatre for what resulted in a now legendary color photo in the November 7th, 1960 issue of Life Magazine
In 1927, Swanson’s “The Loves of Sunya” was the opening film at the Roxy Theatre, which fell to the wrecking ball just 33 years later.
Many of us feel that the destruction of this landmark Palace was ‘a crime against New York’ (along with the Brooklyn Fox, Academy Of Music 14th Street, and others