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April 3, 2012 [1] The Saban Theatre ( səˈbɑːnsə-BAHN) is a historic theatre in Beverly Hills, California, formerly known as the Fox Wilshire Theater. [2] It is an Art Deco structure at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hamilton Drive designed by architect S. Charles Lee and is considered a classic Los Angeles landmark. The ...
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The Saban Theatre is a historic theatre in Beverly Hills, California, formerly known as the Fox Wilshire Theater. It is an Art Deco structure at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hamilton Drive designed by architect S. Charles Lee and is considered a classic Los Angeles landmark. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 2012.
Opened: September 19, 1930 as the Fox Wilshire Theatre with the Marx Brothers in "Animal Crackers" as the initial attraction. The premiere was attended by Fay Wray, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Montgomery and many others. The opening night photo by Mott Studios is from the California State Library collection.
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The theatre was designed by renowned architect S. Charles Lee. One of the earliest of Lee’s theatre designs (he would eventually design nearly 400), the Fox Wilshire opened September 19, 1930, just a few months before the January 1931 opening of the Los Angeles Theatre downtown, also designed by Lee.
Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [2] Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and ...
Website: www.sabantheatre.org. Telephone: (323) 655-0111. Address: 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. The Saban opened as the Fox Wilshire Theater in September 1930, and is one of Los Angeles’ most notable Art Deco buildings. Theatre architect S. Charles Lee designed the Saban to be fully capable as a theatre for vaudeville in ...
The Saban Theatre ( /səˈbɑːn/ sə-BAHN) is a historic theatre in Beverly Hills, California, formerly known as the Fox Wilshire Theater. It is an Art Deco structure at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hamilton Drive designed by architect S. Charles Lee and is considered a classic Los Angeles landmark. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April ...
