Music Box Theater, 6126 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1931
The Music Box opened at 6126 Hollywood Blvd in 1926 as a live theater venue. Clark Gable played there in “Chicago” in 1927. It also presented revues – the sign on top says “The Pick of the World in Girls.” But in 1931, when this photo was taken, a Clara Kimball Young picture called “Women Go On Forever” was playing. None of those names featured out front were in the movie, so I’m guessing there was also a live review as part of the program. None of the remarkable detailing on the façade of this theater has survived, the theater itself is still around, known today as the Fonda Theatre, names in honor of Henry Fonda.
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As far as I am aware, the theatre did not show motion pictures until far after its opening. For a while it was used for live-audience radio broadcasting and I remember when Fox took the theatre over in the 1950s and added a spectacular marquee and vertical sign that lit up the surrounding neighborhood at night. After Fox pulled out, the vertical sign was changed from Fox to Pix.
Wow. What a design contrast!
I wonder if they pulled off that metal cladding from the Music Box, that the terra cotta or whatever the designs were made of, would still be there.
It would be nice to think so, Nina!
I used to work at The Fonda, and still do occasionally. All of the facade, except for the marquee over the sidewalk survives, but covered up by the metal facing. I have appealed to the owner when I was there to let us remove and restore, but she is dead-set against it.
That’s a shame, Joël, because the facade was really something.