Okay Kids… I was nearly 19 on in March 1949 when it reopened with a “premiere” of Sitting Pretty. There must have been two dozen movie stars in attendance, and I do NOT recall seeing ANY security!! Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, and a teenager behind me, feet up on the back of my seat and snapping gum. I had to turn to see who it was, and there was the usually seductive Yvonne DeCarlo! As we ordinary folk came face-to-face with celebrity we merely nodded recognition, they smiled, and we all walked on. People were civil in those days. I never ever called it the “Fox” but always and always the Granada. Oh, and I remember the Academy theatre, too, with its spiral ‘vertical’… so classy. Thanx EVERYone, for the great pictures!!!
PhreddyBaby in WA state
Okay Kids… I was nearly 19 on in March 1949 when it reopened with a “premiere” of Sitting Pretty. There must have been two dozen movie stars in attendance, and I do NOT recall seeing ANY security!! Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, and a teenager behind me, feet up on the back of my seat and snapping gum. I had to turn to see who it was, and there was the usually seductive Yvonne DeCarlo! As we ordinary folk came face-to-face with celebrity we merely nodded recognition, they smiled, and we all walked on. People were civil in those days. I never ever called it the “Fox” but always and always the Granada. Oh, and I remember the Academy theatre, too, with its spiral ‘vertical’… so classy. Thanx EVERYone, for the great pictures!!!
PhreddyBaby in WA state