60 Years Ago at the Movies: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)

In the summer of 1963, on my tenth birthday, I was taken by my parents to see my first Broadway show, “She Loves Me,” and afterwards we walked through Times Square at night, the first time I got to see it in all its glory. What I was most impressed by were the giant billboards for two films set to open the next day, THE GREAT ESCAPE at the DeMille and JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS at the Loew’s State, two films I was eagerly anticipating. I had to wait till they came to the Bronx before I could see them, so when I found out that JASON would open at the Loew’s Paradise on September 4, I ma

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