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The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California.Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States.
Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District stretches for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets along South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, and contains twelve movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931. In 1986, Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith called the district "the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America." [4]
The State Theatre was designed by Charles Peter Weeks and William Day, of architectural firm Weeks & Day, [4] [5] in a Spanish Renaissance style. The theatre is incorporated into a 12-story Beaux Arts style [5] 1921 office block called the United Building, situated at the intersection of S. Broadway and 7th St.
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4]
Desmond's Building, built in 1924, was designed by Albert C. Martin Sr., [2] the architect responsible for several Los Angeles landmarks, including Million Dollar Theatre, City Hall, St. Vincent de Paul Church, May Company Building, and more. [3]
The Emoji Movie premiere, Westwood Village. The Regency Village Theatre (formerly the Fox Theatre, Westwood Village or the Fox Village Theatre) is a historic, landmark cinema in Westwood, Los Angeles, California in the heart of the Mediterranean-themed shopping and cinema precinct, opposite the Fox Bruin Theater, near the University of California, Los Angeles ().
The Tower Theatre, at South Broadway and West Eighth Street, was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner. [4] He would also build the Los Angeles Theatre in 1931.. The Tower was the first theater designed by architect S. Charles Lee. [3]