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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Cecil B. DeMille commissioned the plans, Cary Grant tried to buy the building, and Al Jolson broadcast from its stage - the theatre outlasted them all. The Ricardo Montalban Theatre at 1615 Vine Street, steps from Hollywood and Vine, opened on 19 January 1927 as the Wilkes Vine Street Theatre - the first Broadway-style legitimate playhouse in Hollywood - with an adaptation of Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The Beaux-Arts building by Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers, originally seating 1,200, cycled...