&sq=&lang=&file=File:Paramount_Theatre_Holiday_Inn_world_premiere_cropped.jpg) Premiere of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn at the Paramount Theatre (August 4, 1942) | |
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| Address | 1501 Broadway New York City United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′26″N 73°59′11″W / 40.75713°N 73.986488°W |
| Type | movie palace |
| Capacity | 3,664 |
| Current use | office and retail |
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| Opened | November 19, 1926 |
| Closed | February 21, 1966 |
| Architect | Rapp & Rapp |
The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1926, it was a showcase theatre and the New York headquarters of Paramount Pictures. Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount predecessor Famous Players Film Company, maintained an office in the building until his death in 1976. The Paramount Theatre eventually became a popular live performance venue. The theater was closed in 1964 and its space converted to office and retail use. The tower which housed it, known as the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway, is in commercial use as an office building and is still home to Paramount Pictures offices.
Following the closing of the Times Square Paramount Theatre, two other theaters in Manhattan have had the same name: the Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden and a now-demolished movie theater at the Gulf and Western Building (15 Columbus Circle). The Brooklyn Paramount Theater, also in New York City, opened in 1928.