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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A movie palace saved from demolition-by-neglect became one of the world's most intimate opera houses. The California Theatre at 345 South First Street in downtown San Jose opened in April 1927 as the Fox Theatre - Hollywood stars attended the premiere of An Affair of the Follies with it-girl Billie Dove - designed by Weeks and Day, the architects of Oakland's Fox and San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, and hailed on opening day as the finest theater in California. Vaudeville, 3D and Cinemascope ...