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History. This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4] . Designed by S. Charles Lee, [5] and Samuel Tilden Norton, the theater features a French Baroque interior.
About the Los Angeles Theatre. The Los Angeles Theatre was the last and most extravagant of the ornate movie palaces built on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles between 1911 and 1931. Designed by architect S. Charles Lee with a French Baroque-inspired décor, its majestic six-story main lobby and 2,200-seat auditorium of carved plaster ...
The design of the Los Angeles Theatre bears a striking resemblance to the legendary 5,000 seat Fox Theatre in San Francisco, built by Fox in 1926. Fox may very well have shared the plans of the San Francisco Fox with Gumbiner and Lee. In any case, Lee gave the theatre his own unique imprint, with a host of special touches and technical innovations.
The most lavish and last built of Broadway’s great movie palaces, the Los Angeles was designed by legendary theatre architect S. Charles Lee. It was constructed in 1931 at an estimated cost of more than one million dollars.
Designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh based on a Florentine early Renaissance palazzo, it was the first vaudeville theatre constructed in Los Angeles by the famous Orpheum chain, and it was a stunner. With three levels of seating and nearly 2,000 seats, it was meant to impress—and that it did.
Overview. Photos. Comments. View larger map →. The Los Angeles Theatre is one of the crown jewels of the downtown Los Angeles corridor of fantasy that is the S. Broadway Theatre District. Built by independent exhibitor H.L. Gumbiner who built the Tower Theatre in 1927.
Opened: January 30, 1931 with the premiere of Chaplin's "City Lights." The Los Angeles is owned and managed by Broadway Theatre Group with Jason Rodriguez as General Manager. Photo: Bill Counter - 2018. Chaplin wasn't too happy when the film stopped in the middle so management could extol the virtues of the new theatre.
