El Capitan Theater - Los Angeles, CA
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The El Capitan Theatre is a fully restored movie palace at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company.
Waymark Code: WM47ZP
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2008
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When the theater opened in 1926 as "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," it featured a Spanish colonial exterior designed by Stiles O. Clements of the the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements, and a lavish East Indian interior by theatre designer G. Albert Lansburgh. For a decade it presented live plays, with over 120 productions by 1936. After this period it began showing movies, and in 1941, Citizen Kane had its world premiere here. The theater then closed for one year and, having been remodeled in the moderne style, reopened as the Hollywood Paramount Theater.
The theater remained the west coast flagship for Paramount Pictures until the studio was forced by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the antitrust case U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, et al. to divest itself of its theater holdings. After this, the Hollywood Paramount was operated by United Paramount Theatres for some years, then by a series of other companies, culminating with ownership by the Pacific Theatres Circuit in the 1980s.
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