[5] It opened on April 26, 1928, seating more than 2,700[6] and showing Glorious Betsy, starring Conrad Nagel and Dolores Costello.

[1] In addition to the theater, the building featured a nursery, emergency hospital, lounge, retail and office space, and a 3,000 sq.

[3][7] In 1949, the United States Supreme Court issued the Paramount Decision, prohibiting major film studios from owning movie theaters.

[2] In an era when theaters tried to compete with television by introducing widescreen, this venue was one of the few in Hollywood large enough to convert to Cinerama.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A Clockwork Orange.

[2] In the 1950s, a young Carol Burnett was working as an usherette when the theater was showing Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

[2][3][6] To date, the theater's balcony sections remain closed due to safety issues.

From 2000 to 2006, the building was used by the University of Southern California Entertainment Technology Center to experiment in digital projection.