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Grauman had previously opened one of the United States's first movie palaces, the Million Dollar Theater, part of the Broadway Theater District in Downtown Los Angeles. [7] The Egyptian cost $800,000 ($14.6 million in 2023) and took 18 months to construct.
The Palace Theatre is a 2,695-seat restored movie palace located at 34 W. Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. It was designed and built in 1926 by the American architect Thomas W. Lamb as part of the American Insurance Union Citadel (now the LeVeque Tower). Today the theater functions as a multi-use performing arts venue.
On May 27, 2011, Chinese Theatres LLC, a partnership owned by producer Elie Samaha and Donald Kushner, purchased both Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the adjacent Mann Chinese 6. [28] Grauman's Chinese Theatre was sold for $25 million in 2013, [29] and today it continues to serve the public as a first-run movie theater.
Theater entrance. The Great Southern Theatre originally hosted theatrical touring productions. Sarah Bernhardt played in the theater in its first two decades. In the 1910s and 1920s the theater, now called the Southern, featured first run silent films and live vaudeville. From the 1930s on, the Southern was a popular home for second-run double ...
Built by the Loew's theater chain in partnership with United Artists the 2,779 (originally 3,096) seat Spanish Baroque movie palace opened on March 17, 1928. The first film shown was The Divine Woman, a silent film with Greta Garbo. The Ohio featured its own orchestra and Robert-Morton theater organ (still in use today).
ArcLight Sherman Oaks opened November 16, 2007, at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, replacing the Galleria Pacific Theater. The grand opening took place on December 14, 2007. [7] A location in Pasadena at The Paseo opened on May 10, 2010. [8] In late 2010, Pacific Theaters refurbished an existing Pacific Theaters multiplex as an ArcLight in El ...
Michele Carey (born Michele Lee Henson; February 26, 1942 – November 21, 2018) [1] [2] was an American actress who was best known for her role as Josephine "Joey" MacDonald in the 1966 Western film El Dorado. She appeared in movies and guest-starred in television series in the 1960s and 1970s.
El Portal Theater was designed by Lewis Arthur Smith in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style with a neon art deco marquee. [3] Built in 1926, it originally opened as a 1400-seat vaudeville theater, but soon after was converted to a movie palace, first for silent and then Academy Award-winning films. [1] Its first film screening was Ralph ...