United Artists went all out for the August 8, 1938 premiere of “Algiers” starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr at the 4 Star Theatre at 5112 Wilshire Blvd which they draped with all sorts of banners and flags, which I assume they kept up for the run of the movie. At the time, it was quite a hot ticket because it was the first American movie to star the new European discovery, Hedy Lamarr. Moviegoers certainly got their money’s worth in those days. As well as the movie, they were shown a Robert Benchley short and a Walt Disney cartoon.

West Coast premiere of “Algiers” at the 4 Star Theatre on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

This building wasn’t torn down until 2015.

This is roughly how that view looked in June 2024.