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Bessie Love at the Garden of Allah hotel
Bessie Love was a popular actress whose career started with D.W. Griffiths in the mid-1910s appearing in both “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) and “Intolerance” (1916). She successfully made the transition to talkies and in 1929 was was nominated … Continue reading
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Interior and ticket booth of the Academy Movie Theater, Inglewood, Los Angeles
Today I posed a stunning photo of the outside of the Academy Theater in Inglewood. This a photo of the inside. Talk about “they sure don’t make movie theaters like this anymore!” The ticket booth out front: (circa 1940)
Academy Theater, Inglewood
They just don’t make movie theaters like this anymore, do they? This eye-catching masterpiece is the Academy Theater, Inglewood, which opened on November 7, 1939. It was often the location of film premieres and served as a major suburban theater … Continue reading
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood Blvd on Oscar night, 1951
The Academy Awards at the Pantages Theatre, Hollywood Blvd, 1951. This was the year that “An American in Paris” won Best Picture, Humphrey Bogart won for “The African Queen”, and Vivien Leigh won for “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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