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The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed in 2016. The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966), which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Built just a few hundred feet from the site of original Ziegfeld Theatre (demolished in 1966), this ‘new’ Ziegfeld Theatre opened December 17, 1969 with a gala premiere of “Marooned” starring Gregory Peck. The movie house was one of the last big palaces built in the United States.
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Despite public outcry, the Ziegfeld Theatre was demolished in 1966 to make way for an office complex. A few hundred feet west on W. 54th Street, a new single-screen movie house, which bore the famous ‘Ziegfeld’ name, opened in 1969.
Jan 31, 2016 · Walter Reade, Jr. opened the current Ziegfeld Theater in 1969, adding it to his empire of locations, mostly in New York State and New Jersey. Joe approached the ladies and introduced himself, and spoke to them extensively about the theater, and THSA.
1 day ago · Unfortunately, there are almost no remnants of the original Ziegfeld Theater facade that you can see on the streets of New York City today (though the contents of the cornerstone of the...
On December 17, 1969, a few hundred feet from the site of the original Ziegfeld Theatre, a new Ziegfeld opened as a single-screen movie house. Located at 141 West 54th Street, it was one of the last large-scale, single-screen movie palaces built in the United States.
Ziegfeld Theatre could refer to: Ziegfeld Theatre (1927) , a legitimate Broadway theater built on Sixth Ave. in New York City in 1927. Ziegfeld Theatre (1969) , a single screen movie theater built on West 54th St. in New York City in 1969.
