This image isn’t wholly real. It’s a screengrab I took while recently watching a 1953 movie called “The I Don’t Care Girl.” In this scene, Mitzi Gaynor’s character is entering the 20th Century-Fox studios. It looked suspiciously matted together, which surprised me. Even in a 20th Century-Fox movie they need to manufacture the entrance to their own studios? That white structure with the (fake-looking) logo on top is the administration building that Darryl F. Zanuck built near Stages 10 and 11. It’s still there but this gate is no longer accessible to the public, but at the time was a main entrance onto the lot. And if that part is real, it’s a surprisingly unremarkable gate for a Hollywood movie studio, don’t you think?
Here’s a satellite shot from 2020 showing the admin building (far right) and Stages 10 & 11 (top left corner.) It looks like the admin building is partially covered with filming facades.
Just fyi, that was never any gate to the Fox lot. The “street” is the main north-south thoroughfare wholly on and within the lot past and north of the actual Pico Gate, now lesding to a parking structure and the STAR WARS mural. The grassy area to the right is now occupied by new administration buildings, and the cars are turning into what is now a short diagonal “New York” street built for HELLO DOLLY.
Apparently, along westbound Pico Bl, LA City D.O.T placed the blue neighborhood sign for “Rancho Park” just before the western property line of the Fox lot in front of Stage 15. The “Century City” blue neighborhood sign is directly across the street. The western boundary of the Fox lot on the Pico side geographically serves as the boundary of 3 distinct LA City neighborhoods – Rancho Park (to the west), Cheviot Hills (to the south), and Century City (the Fox lot and beyond towards Santa Monica Bl).
This image isn’t wholly real. It’s a screengrab I took while recently watching a 1953 movie called “The I Don’t Care Girl.” In this scene, Mitzi Gaynor’s character is entering the 20th Century-Fox studios. It looked suspiciously matted together, which surprised me. Even in a 20th Century-Fox movie they need to manufacture the entrance to their own studios? That white structure with the (fake-looking) logo on top is the administration building that Darryl F. Zanuck built near Stages 10 and 11. It’s still there but this gate is no longer accessible to the public, but at the time was a main entrance onto the lot. And if that part is real, it’s a surprisingly unremarkable gate for a Hollywood movie studio, don’t you think?
Just fyi, that was never any gate to the Fox lot. The “street” is the main north-south thoroughfare wholly on and within the lot past and north of the actual Pico Gate, now lesding to a parking structure and the STAR WARS mural. The grassy area to the right is now occupied by new administration buildings, and the cars are turning into what is now a short diagonal “New York” street built for HELLO DOLLY.
Yeah, it took me a while to figure all that out. And it explains why the gate to the studio in that movie was so plain and unadorned.
Apparently, along westbound Pico Bl, LA City D.O.T placed the blue neighborhood sign for “Rancho Park” just before the western property line of the Fox lot in front of Stage 15. The “Century City” blue neighborhood sign is directly across the street. The western boundary of the Fox lot on the Pico side geographically serves as the boundary of 3 distinct LA City neighborhoods – Rancho Park (to the west), Cheviot Hills (to the south), and Century City (the Fox lot and beyond towards Santa Monica Bl).