Juliet I & II
1474 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10028
1474 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10028
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Opened With Walt Disney’s “The Aristocats”.
Opened on December 25th, 1970. Grand opening ad already up.
John J. McNamara also designed the Beekman! Wow I did not know he also designed the Juliets, which was much smaller and less memorable. In fact I thought it was built into a pre-existing structure on site.
The Office for Metropolitan History’s Manhattan NB Database says that the theater at 1474-1478 Third Avenue was designed by architect John J. McNamara in 1969.
The Juliet 1&2 was originally opened by ABC Theatres of NY to exhibit its own ABC Pictures. That production arm did not last too long and subsequently the site played other product. It was named after ABC’s Juliet theatre in Poughkeepsie because the powers to be at ABC were so proud of that theatre and the business that it generated. It was located opposite Vassar College. It has not been a cinema since Sept. of 1990 and is now owned by Vassar. It will soon become a college book store. I managed the Juliet in Poughkeepsie for 13 years so that this information is right on.
Pete Bergamo
For several years after it closed, the Juliet’s marquee read “A Bo a Hi Do” because the last film that played there was “A Boy and His Dog” with Don Johnson.
Actually ABC Southeastern EXCLUDED Florida which had a separate ABC Florida State Theatres subsidiary.
ABC Southeastern Theatres included more than Flordia.Mr.Lewis.
Exit, you’re mistaken. The Juliet was some 20 blocks north of the Columbia/Gemini/UA. A different theatre entirely.
The Juliet 1 & 2 opened in late December 1970 with “The Aristocats” and closed in June 1976.
Confusing, huh? I just don’t remember anything on 2nd avenue between the Beekman (and awful Loews New York Twin) and the Cine' on 86th st, except for a tiny single screener that’s still there.
The UA 64th Street & 2nd Ave Theatre is still open. The theatre in question on this thread is located at 1474 3rd. Avenue which is at 83rd. Street. I was just wondering, was looking at some old subway movie posters earlier and it listed the Juliet Theatre at 3rd. Ave & 83rd Street.
So this place was gone by 78? Then it’s not the one I remember. Can’t forget the name, but I remember something with an uninspiring name changing to Gemini, with a little nicer facade and decor. And that place looks NOTHING like the recent pictures of the UA Whateveritis. No one has pictures of the Juliet??
Anyone remember the weird little twin RKO had across from the DW Griffith around the corner from the Baronet/Coronet? Had the opening of THE BOY FRIEND… redone as Manhattan 1&2, ran CRUISING, MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, POLTERGEIST… same cool window displays as other Rugoff/Cinema 5 houses. For Poltergeist they had a real TV in the window with a little girl figure in front of it -nightgown, hands on screen, static snowy picture… Very strange place, screen very high, downstairs way below the screen, top level was only good place to sit, with eye-level sightlines, a strange little severely slanted “stage” like thing under the screen. You just had to wonder “what were they thinking?” couldn’t have been built this way on purpose.
64th and 2nd sounds like a tiny single screener under an apartment building. I recall no twins on second avenue at all. Just wasn’t a busy place except near 86th street where the Orpheum/Cine'. the RKO twin under a department store, and the 86th sdtreet East were. Entrance to the Cine' (balcony of the Orpheum split like Loew’s Stat was) was on 2nd avenue.
I don’t know what you mean about second avenue, bit I can tell you for sure that Juliet/Gemini and Columbia were the same place.
Yes, and also the Gemini. all the same place. I was in there through all 3 names.
Roadshow where you thinking of the United Artists 64th & 2nd. Ave. Theatre? That theatre was known as the Gemini 1 & 2 and Columbia 1 & 2.
It was eventually renovated and renamed Gemini I & II. Features opening there: MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC… Boxoffice Magazine did a Modern Theatre feature on this place when it opened, with pics of how it basically looked originally and it didn’t change much after renovations. It was a nice place.
The address for this theatre is 1474 Third Avenue or 3rd. Ave @ 83rd Street, former phone number 212 249-1806.
The Juliet opened this pair of Joseph E Levine films in 1972
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Here is a pair of MGM showcase films like mentioned in the introduction. Boy do they capitalize on the success of Love Story. And was Richard Chamberlain still playing a college student in the 70’s?
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A day and date with the Demille in 72
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Finally nailed down the address for this one: 1474 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10028.
The opening attraction, on December 25, 1970, was indeed The Aristocats.
According to COs, the first floor auditorium had seating for 300 while the upper level theatre seated 480.
OH WOW!! I forgot about this theatre until seeing this entry. I think there was a mezzanine up on the second floor with a glass window overlooking Third Avenue…or else the view from the escalator loked out a window streetside. Can’t remember what I saw here, maybe The Aristocats as mentioned in the entry above, I know I saw that Disney movie in a movie theater when I was a kid, might have been at the Juliet! If anyone has any pics of this theatre please post them. Thanks everyone
Wow, I always wondered what happened to this theater. Saw Beatty and Nicholson in “The Fortune” there. Thanks