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, which is just around the corner from the State and Lake theater—they routinely would play pornography, especially Cinestage became kind of a home for it,” he says, adding that lighter fare, like the Russ Meyer film“It ran for at least a year and a half there and just was constantly selling out and became kind of this, like, sensation in Chicago. And then mind you, that wasn’t hardcore. That was softcore,” Carston notes.
“There was Cab Calloway opening for a W.C. Fields film. I’d be down for that in the 1930s,” Carston says.“There was an Italian film that Roberto Rossellini made called, and it’s kind of an anthology film with a lot of different stories. And one of the stories is about an African American soldier in Italy after the war and his adventures with this kid,” Carston says. “So when the ads for the south-side theaters where it played came out, they made that guy the star of the movie.
“I started collecting many old ads myself. Then I discovered Windy City Ballyhoo and found a kindred spirit,” says Karaszewski. “Here were people obsessed with the same goofy crap I was.”“About a Mexican boy or teenager accused of molesting or raping a girl. And there’s a whole trial about it. And supposedly the gimmick was they would have local celebrities on the jury for the film. Here in Chicago, Irv Kupcinet and some other columnists are on the jury and this was at the Loop Theater.
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