The Norworth Theatre opened on January 28, 1918, under the management of actor and producer Jack Norworth. It was located at 125 W. 48th Street and designed by architect Eugene De Rosa. Just four months later, the theatre came under new management and was renamed the Belmont. The Belmont premiered Miss Lulu Bett, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Two years later, playwright Philip Barry’s play You and I made its Broadway debut. The Belmont’s biggest hit was a revue, Americana, starring Charles Butterworth, Helen Morgan, and Betty Compton. The venue faltered as a legitimate theatre and then as a foreign cinema house, and the Norworth Theatre was demolished in 1951, as a movie theatre, to make room for commercial developments.