Over the years since it opened in 1920, the Hollywood Bowl has had several different stages and shells (including the first one, which had no shell at all.) The one we’re seeing in this 1926 photo was designed by architect, Myron Hunt, who also designed the Rose Bowl. The photo was taken from the Bowl’s back row of the seating, and shows how sparse the backstage development still was.
This is how the Hollywood Bowl looked in 2024.
Have memories of so many wonderful nights at the Hollywood Bowl!
Here’s a trivia question I feel like asking: “In what movie did Katharine Hepburn land in the middle of a crowded Hollywood Bowl in a hot air balloon?”
I have no idea. Please tell us!
That would be “Olly Olly Oxen Free,” a rather obscure 1978 film in Kate’s filmography, and one Hepburn film I’ve never seen.
Wow! That’s a Hepburn film I’ve never even heard of.
Me either!
I remember reading a very negative review of it when it came out in 1978 which mentioned the “Bowl” part and that’s why I wanted to see it, but I don’t even recall it being shown in an L.A. theater. Some years later it came out on VHS which is when I saw it, but I don’t remember anything about it except the bowl part of it…and vaguely at that.
I once got to sit in a box at the Bowl, but typically my view is very similar to these two pics.
Hahaha! Me too!