Music Hall 3
9036 Wilshire Boulevard,
Beverly Hills,
CA
90211
9036 Wilshire Boulevard,
Beverly Hills,
CA
90211
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It’s too bad it’s in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills has absolutely no regard for historic buildings. They will tear them down on a whim.
Very ironic,socal09.Very nice marquee in the 2010 photo.
How ironic that this theatre in danger of closing, is almost directly across the street from the Academy of Motion Picture headquarters.
I had hoped the one good thing that would come out of the Beverly Center 13 and the Fairfax closing would be the Music Hall doing better second-run business. Guess not.
The Beverly Hills Patch reports the Music Hall will likely close in early 2011 if Laemmle isn’t provided cheaper lease terms, even though their current lease is under market value. Doesn’t look good: View link
(Oct. 12, 1941)
Motor Vehicle Department to Conduct Drivers' School
Excerpt….If anything about the traffic rules or how to drive correctly bothers you, you will be interested in a Drivers' Safety School to be started by the Department of Motor Vehicles. This school will be conducted Wednesday of this week and also Oct. 22 and 29 and Nov. 5 from 10 to 12 a.m. at the Elite Theater, Wilshire Blvd. and Doheny Drive.
The theater’s name was Music Hall at least by 1948.
(Feb. 3, 1948 LA Times)
MUSIC HALL, 9036 Wilshire-BR.2-3593
Sleep, My Love
Here is a February 2010 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ye7b2ca
I managed the Music Hall for the Laemmles for five years, beginning in 1975. (And, my thanks to Richard von Busack for his kind remarks.) Like the Los Feliz beforehand, the Music Hall was truly celebrity city, located as it was two blocks away from the headquarters for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences: I saw Natalie Wood close-up (you get that way, when you’re tearing tickets) twice, and she was truly exquisite! Oh, I could go on and on: Steve McQueen, Jeff Morrow (a personal friend), William Castle, Diana Ross, Charlton Heston, Groucho Marx—the list is truly endless. Our biggest headache was the American Film Theatre, which sold its tickets by computer from a New York base, which continually screwed up! Ahhhh, the good old days!
In the 1970s, the manager was ex Ft Worth film critic Dan Bates. A brilliant guy who urged me to see Ozu, Preston Sturges, His Girl Friday. I sure owe him one.
The current auditorium seating capacities are 142, 98, 259.
I noted seeing the movie Betrayal, with Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley, at this theatre in April, 1983.
The architect of the Elite Theatre was Wilfred B. Verity, whose offices were in the Garland Building in Los Angeles. Plans for the Elite were announced in late 1936.
This theater was a great single screen, but was split into three absolutely tiny theaters at some point during the 90’s. They still show very eclectic fare as part of the Laemelle chain. Lately, perhaps due to the population changes in Beverly Hills, they are showing many Persian films.
The Fine Arts, down the road a bit on Wilshire, is a sort of twin to the Music Hall, but is luckily still a single screen.
When the the Music Hall Theatre opened it was called The Elite Theatre. During the late 60’s the Music Hall Theatre was part of the Walter Reade Theatres. Walter Reade Theatres ran three houses in the Los Angeles area. The Music Hall, Beverly Canon and The Granada Theatre.