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HistoryIn the heart of Hollywood, on Hollywood Boulevard, right down the block from Vine Street, stands the PantagesTheatre. It's a fitting location: The Pantages has become one of the greatest landmarks of Hollywood, signifyingboth the glorious past and adventuresome future of the world's entertainment capital.
The Pantages has a history as grand and diverse as the stage and screen fare which audiences have flocked to enjoythere for half a century. These days it's one of Los Angeles' leading homes of legitimate theatre (the five highest-grossing weeks in L.A.'s theatrical history were all shows at the Pantages) and a favorite "location" for tv shows,movies and music videos. In the past, it has been a movie house, with live vaudeville acts between features as wellas the site of many gala premieres and "spectaculars." For ten years the Pantages Theatre was the home of theglittering Academy Awards Presentations.
The Pantages was primarily a movie house for several decades. In 1949 came Howard Hughes, acquiring thetheatre through RKO, changing its name to the RKO Pantages and setting up offices there. (His upstairs apartmentand screening room are today theatre offices, and Hughes’ ghost is among several rumored to frequent the buildingonce the audience leaves.)
Starting in 1953, television cameras brought the Oscars – and the Pantages Theatre – to America’s living rooms. Itshosts included such notables as Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis. Frank Sinatra was honored asBest Supporting Actor in 1954, receiving one of eight Oscars awarded that year to “From Here to Eternity”. GraceKelly took home her award as Best Actress for “The Country Girl” in 1955, just a year before she left Hollywood tobecome Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco.
Pacific Theatres bought the Pantages from RKO in December 1967, leading to a refurbishment and reopening of thetheatre sections closed down during the Hughes reign. The much-anticipated Music Center raised nearly $400,000there in 1963 at a $250 per seat premiere of “Cleopatra”.
In 1977, the Nederlander Organization came in as Pacific’s partner and gave the Pantages another overhaul beforere-opening it as a legitimate theatre with “Bubbling Brown Sugar” in February 1977. When The NederlanderOrganization heard that the Walt Disney Company was seeking a home for its Los Angeles production of “The LionKing”, chairman James M. Nederlander locked up a Pantages booking by agreeing to a substantial renovation. Itwas time, thought Nederlander, to get the theatre looking more like it did in 1930. The theatre was restored to itsoriginal luster in time for the highly-anticipated L.A. Premiere of Disney’s THE LION KING.
While the use of the Pantages Theatre may have changed over the years, the theatre does not appear all thatdifferent today. After several touch-ups over the years, the Hollywood Boulevard showplace was renovated at the
turn of the 21st century to recapture its 1930 look and luxury. When the theatre reopened in September 2000,some 300 people had repainted nearly every inch of the theatre, restored its outer lobby and missing chandeliers,refurbished its walls and prepared it for the new century.
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