page_title: Rialto Theatre (New York City)
hierarchical_section_title: Rialto Theatre (New York City)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lobby of the Rialto Theatre during Cat People premiere
context_page_description: The Rialto Theatre was a movie palace in New York City located at 1481 Broadway, at the corner of 42nd Street, within the Broadway Theater District of Manhattan.
  The 1,960-seat theater opened on April 21, 1916, on the former site of Oscar Hammerstein's Vaudeville venue the Victoria Theatre. Together with Strand Theatre, they were the most important movie theatres on Broadway at the time. It exclusively played Triangle Film Corporation films but beginning in 1919, the Rialto Theatre premiered many releases by Paramount Pictures until being supplanted by the newly built Paramount Theatre in 1926 as the movie studio's flagship theater in New York City.
  When Paramount sold the building in 1935, the Rialto Theatre was demolished and rebuilt on a smaller scale, with the rest of the building dedicated to shops and office space.
  By the 1970s, the theater had become an adult movie theater. In February 1980, it abandoned adult films in lieu of legitimate theater, becoming host to live theatrical productions. The building also contained a TV studio called Times Square Studios. It was once home to daytime talk shows hosted by Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams.
context_section_description: The Rialto Theatre was a movie palace in New York City located at 1481 Broadway, at the corner of 42nd Street, within the Broadway Theater District of Manhattan. 
  The 1,960-seat theater opened on April 21, 1916, on the former site of Oscar Hammerstein's Vaudeville venue the Victoria Theatre. Together with Strand Theatre, they were the most important movie theatres on Broadway at the time.  It exclusively played Triangle Film Corporation films but beginning in 1919, the Rialto Theatre premiered many releases by Paramount Pictures (then known as the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) until being supplanted by the newly built Paramount Theatre in 1926 as the movie studio's flagship theater in New York City.
  When Paramount sold the building in 1935, the Rialto Theatre was demolished and rebuilt on a smaller scale, with the rest of the building dedicated to shops and office space. 
  By the 1970s, the theater had become an adult movie theater. In February 1980, it abandoned adult films in lieu of legitimate theater, becoming host to live theatrical productions. The building also contained a TV studio called Times Square Studios (not related to the studio owned by ABC). It was once home to daytime talk shows hosted by Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams.
  The building was torn down in 2002 and a high-rise office building was erected in its place.
caption: Lobby of the Rialto Theatre during Cat People premiere on 5 December 1942
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