The Italian Renaissance church, built in 1928 but not completed until 1954, received a historic preservation grant in 2000 from the J. Paul Getty Trust.

The order refused to sell the property to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the matter of finding a new cathedral remained unsettled.

In 1955, organist Richard Key Biggs received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice decoration in recognition of 27 years of service.

A low point for the parish came in October 1987, when a gunman opened fire into a crowd of hundreds attending the church's carnival, spraying the area with bullets.

[13] In 1992, the church drew national media attention after a repentant man who had looted the "Frederick's of Hollywood" lingerie museum during the Los Angeles riots delivered a bag of pilfered celebrity lingerie, including Ava Gardner's "bloomers" and a push-up bra once worn by TV actress Katey Sagal, to the church's pastor, Fr Bob Fambrini.

[14][15][16][17] An Austin newspaper noted that Fambrini "may be the only priest in America to ever comfort a man who felt guilty about stealing celebrity bloomers.

"[19] By the 1980s, what had once been a large convent housing the sisters of the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, had become part of a sanctuary effort to protect undocumented individuals from Central America fleeing the violence in the region.

In late April 1999, Sr. Peg Dolan of Loyola Marymount University headed a group of "Alumni for Others" in the restoration of the former convent on Selma Avenue in Hollywood.

[20] In 2004, Cardinal Roger Mahony presided at the parish's 100th anniversary Mass, which was celebrated in three languages (English, Spanish and Tagalog).

"[21] Mahony also thanked the Society of Jesus for their long history of service to the parish, and the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, whose religious community staffed the school for many decades.

In order to raise awareness and maximize funding opportunities, the Center[22] became an independent agency and obtained its separate federal and state tax-exempt status.

While continuing to be an integral part of the Blessed Sacrament social services mission, the center is now governed by an independent Board of Directors composed of civic leaders, volunteers and local residents.

As early as June 1916, the "popular stars of filmdom" were giving their time and talents gratis for a three-act burlesque on the "old-time melodrama" and novel specialty numbers.

[5] In October 1926, the Los Angeles Times reported that Blessed Sacrament was holding the "biggest bazaar ever held in cinema town, with the co-operation of practically the entire motion-picture industry" to raise funds for the new church.

[25] The Times noted that the bazaar was housed under a canvas top, "with gaily decorated booths, gorgeous articles donated by the motion-picture stars, and by wealth persons engaged in other industries.