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TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Conservancy ...... 5 Orpheum Theatre ...... 16 Los Angeles Theatre ...... 8 A Day with Laurel & Hardy ...... 1 7 It Happened One Night ...... 9 Rebecca ...... 18 Million Dollar Theatre ...... 10 Conservancy Walking Tours ...... 19 The Bitter Stems ...... 11 The Wiltern ...... 20 The Maltese Falcon ...... 12 Butch Cassidy Production/Volunteers ...... 13 and the Sundance Kid ...... 22 The Theatre at Ace Hotel ...... 14 Network...... 23 Spartacus ...... 1 5

~ 3 WHO WE ARE SERIES e're the Los ED LOS ANGELES its architectural WAngeles 111111 CONSERVANCY treasures, and the Conservancy, hidden gems that -SUPPORTING a nonprofit organization devoted make it unique. We think these to preserving and revitalizing places are worth protecting for architecturally and culturally future generations. Our work SPONSOR significant places throughout L.A. is grounded in the belief that County. What began as a small historic preservation empowers group of concerned citizens now has and nourishes communities nearly 6,000 member households, by creating meaningful the largest membership of any local connections between people. preservation group in the nation. To learn more about our work, We have hundreds of volunteers visit laconservancy.org. and a staff of nearly twenty. Connect with us We're people who love Los Angeles County, its history, Ii 1:1 [8] @laconservancy Walter J. ABOUT LAST REMAINING SEATS

ur popular series of classic Last Remaining Seats wouldn't & Ofilms in historic theatres be possible without our amazing began in 1987 as a way to volunteer committee, who work draw attention to the spectacular tirelessly to put this show together yet overlooked and underused and select each season's lineup. historic theatres of Los Angeles. The We're always looking for fresh Holly O. series has since become a summer faces to join the team. For more tradition, drawing thousands of information on how to get involved, people from the r~gion, the nation, visit laconservancy.org/ volunteer. Thomson and outside the U.S. SCAVENGER HUNT Join us on a photo scavenger hunt at every Last Remaining Seats screening! 1. Find the scavenger hunt images 4. When you've completed the Foundation on the theatre information scavenger hunt, visit the pages of this program. membership table in the lobby and 2. Look around the theatre and find show us your photos. the places or details pictured. 5. The first 10 people to complete the 3. Take a photo of each place or scavenger hunt at each screening detail, and post your images on win a pass for 2 people to attend any Instagram or Twitter using the regular Conservancy walking tour! hashtags #LastRemainingSeats and #LRSscavengerhunt.

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6 7 • LOS ANGELES THEATRE • IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT L....--_ _-----' 615 S. BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES AT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE S. Charles Lee. 1931 JUNE " 2019 - 8 P.M. PROGRAM riginally billed as "the world's fIn rors, sparkling chandeliers, deta iled WELCOME est and most luxuriously appoint plaster ornament, and a sunburst motif Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy Oed cinema playhouse," the Los alluding to France's "Sun King," Louis Angeles Theatre is the last and XIV. A grand central staircase leads to a HOST most ornate of Broadway's great movie crystal foundation and a French-inspired Leonard Maltin, film historian and critic palaces. mural painted by Candelario Rivas. FEATURE Its grand opening on January 30, The lower level houses a playroom It Happened One Night 1931 featured Charlie Chaplin's City and a glamorous ladies' restroom with Columbia Pictures, 1934, 105 minutes Lights, with Albert Einstein as the guest sixteen private compartments, each fin STARRING of honor. ished in a different marble. In the wal CLARK GABLE as Peter CLAUDETTE COLBERT as Ellie From the elaborate terrazzo side nut-paneled lounge, a periscope-like DIRECTED BY Frank Capra walks outside the entrance to the stage system of prisms relayed the film from WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS© FOR BEST PICTURE, curtain decorated with three-dimen the auditorium to a secondary screen, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS, sional figures, the Los Angeles Theatre allowing patrons to watch the film while AND BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY demonstrates S. Charles Lee's axiom, socializing. Film print courtesy Swank Motion Pictures "the show starts at the sidewalk." In 1994, the Los Angeles Theatre The theatre's five-story fac;ade boasts closed its doors as a regularly operat 35mm trailers from The George Crittenden Collection, huge terra cotta columns, angels, and ing theatre and now serves as a popular courtesy the Alex Film Society vines. Its majestic lobby features mir- filming location. VIP OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION AT THE MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL SPONSORED BY IIIII MillENN IUM JPMORGAN CHASE & Co. BILTMORE HOTEl ~ LOS ANGELES Stay after the screening for an afterparty with drinks, pub trivia, and more! SCAVENGER HUNT

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9 • MILLION DOLLAR THEATRE • THE BITTER STEMS 307 S. BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (LOS TALLOS AMARGOS) THEATRE: William Lee Woollett. 1918 AT THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATRE EXTERIOR: Albert C. Martin. Sr.. 1918 JUNE 8,2019 - 2 P.M. Co-presented by LACLA reated for theatre impresario Sid the tale. Grauman as his first Los Angeles The massive 110-foot-wide balco PROGRAM Cvenue, the Million Dollar was one of ny in the auditorium is supported by WELCOME the earliest and largest movie pal the world's first reinforced concrete Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy aces in the country, boasting 2,345 seats. girder-a feat of engineering. Officials Joseph Mora designed the theatre's performed a stress test by placing 1.5 OPENING REMARKS elaborate Churrigueresque fac;:ade, million pounds of sand-bags across the E. Michael Diaz, President and Founder, which includes bison heads, longhorn span. The girder passed the test. Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles steer skulls, allegorical figures repre In the 1950s, the Million Dollar be HOST senting the arts, and girls perched on came the first theatre on Broadway Guido Segal, screenwriter and ftlmmaker ledges strumming stringed instruments to feature Spanish-language variety SPECIAL GUEST as their legs dangle over the street. The shows (variedades), including headline Alan K. Rode, Director, Film Noir Foundation large, scalloped arch over the entrance acts from Latin America. The theatre once framed a stained-glass window, served as a leading Latinx entertain FEATURE now plastered over. ment venue for decades, featuring var Los tallos amargos The 1841 English fairy tale King of the iedades and Mexican film premieres. Aries Cinematograflca Argentina, 1956, 90 minutes Golden River by John Ruskin inspired After serving as a church for several Spanish with English subtitles years, the Million Dollar closed to the many of the theatre's furnishings. The STARRING organ grilles in particular showcase im public. It reopened for performances CARLOS CORES as Alfredo Gaspar AiDA LUZ as Elena ages from the book, including the evil and special events in 2008 after a year DIRECTED BY Fernando Ayala brothers, the Golden Tankard, the South long refurbishment, and now serves as West Wind, and even the dog cited in event and filming location. 35mm trailers from The George Crittenden Collection, courtesy the Alex Film Society 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by Film Noir Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust.

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11 THE MALTESE FALCON '------' -THANK YDU- AT THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATRE Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2079 season of Last Remaining Seats possible JUNE 8,2079 - 8 P.M. PRODUCTION TEAM PROGRAM Production Manager: Bud Coffey Announcer: Rob McManeus WELCOME Projectionists: Bob Fitzgerald, Photographer: Mike Hume Robert Simonton, Mark Wojan Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy ~ Vintage Projector Specialist: Tom Ruff FEATURE 2019 SERIES COMMITTEE The Maltese Falcon Celeste Hong, Chair Marissa Hicks-Alcaraz, Megan Pollin Warner Bros., 1941, 100 minutes Liz Highstrete, Vice Chair LACLA Helen Ramirez John Paul Basile Deanna Howard Luis Rivera STARRING Megan Bennett Connie Humberger Vince Robbins HUMPHREY BOGART as Samuel Spade Scott Benson Elizabeth IsHak Brittany Salazar MARY ASTOR as Brigid O'Shaughnessy Kate Berg Tracy Jackson Kamini Sharma DIRECTED BY John Huston Robin Bowers Sharon King Paul Sheargold 35mm trailers from The George Crittenden Collection, Ryaan Cantrell Amanda Lao Robert Simonton Bud Coffey Scott Lee courtesy the Alex Film Society Matt Stewart Tom Dailey Traci Lew Tom Sutherland Film print licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc, all rights reserved Michael Diaz, LACLA Margaret Lindstrom Paul Tolbert Lumme Erilt Steve Markham SCREENING Robert Vogt Christopher Gibson Leslie McDougall Jan Westman SPONSORED BY Yvonne Golembeski Tom McQuaide Mark Wojan ~ __ .1J.t)~7 Chris Gray Ziggy Mrkich Sonrisa Wood - AHUDlIC - Olivia Hemaratanatorn Andrew Odom Michael Zoldessy Special thanks Christian Andrade; Autry Museum of the American West (Maren Dougherty, SCAVENGER HUNT Ben Fitzsimmons, and Joshua Garrett-Davis); Ed Baney; Silvia Carluccio; Benito Chavez; Adam Daneshgar; Brandy Eggermann; Susan Garbett; Ed Kelsey; Natalie Lei; Gabriel Maldonado; PEN America, Los Angeles (Michelle Franke and Natalie Green); SoCal NOMA (Duane Williams); Deborah Stussman; UCLA Cinema & Television Archive (research, study, and marketing staff);USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (Christina Bellantoni and Jaime Carias) Scavenger hunt photos by Douglas Hill, Jessica Hodgdon/L.A. Conservancy, Mike Hume, Amanda Lao, Annie Laskey/L.A. Conservancy, Ben Miller, Helen Ramirez, Stephen Russo, Don Solosan, and Larry Underhill Cover photos It Happened One Night courtesy Columbia Pictures; The Bitter Stems courtesy Film Nair Foundation; The Maltese Falcon courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., I all rights reserved; Laurel & Hardy public domain; Network courtesy Park Circus/ MGM Studios; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid courtesy Criterion Pictures; Rebecca courtesy Disney; Spartacus courtesy Universal Pictures Major funding for the Los Angeles Conservancy's educational programming is provided by the LaFetra Foundation and the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris SEE PAGE 5 FOR INSTRUCTIONS Foundation.

12 13 • THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL • EPIC SUNDAY: 929 S. BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SPARTACUS THEATRE: C. Howard Crane. 1927 EXTERIOR: Albert R. Walker and Percy A. Eisen. 1927 AT THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL .. JUNE 16,2019 - 3 P.M . uilt in 1927, the United Artists crystal drops. Angels encircle the sides (UA) Theatre was the West Coast of the dome. PROGRAM .,. Bflagship for the company founded Murals by Jose Rivas on the upper WELCOME by Hollywood legends Mary Pick balcony walls feature UA's founders, Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy ford, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and along with other stars of the era, such Douglas Fairbanks. In breaking away as Rudolph Valentino and John Barry FEATURE from the major studio system, these art more. It's alleged that the handsome Spartacus ists revolutionized film production and nudes on one mural represent the UA Bryna Productions, 1960, 204 minutes including distribution. Board of Directors, while the demons on a 20-minute intermission The building includes a thirteen-sto the other side are the evil studio bosses. STARRIN.G ry steel-framed office tower. The theatre struggled commercially KIRK DOUGLAS as Spartacus LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus Above the first floor are two stories for decades, finally becoming the church DIRECTED BY Stanley Kubrick WRITTEN BY Dalton Trumbo of gothic-inspired ornamentation with for televangelist Gene Scott, who occu a Hollywood twist: column capitals be pied it for over twenty years. Film print courtesy Universal Pictures tween double-wide arched windows In 2012, Ace Hotel acquired the site, COMMUNITY PARTNER feature cameramen and musicians. adapting the building into a boutique The decorated ceiling of the auditori hotel and restoring the theatre as an (;;. 1 um boasts an enormous sunburst, with event and performance space. The proj C;R~ the oval dome at the center tiled with ect received a Conservancy Preserva The Freedom mirrors and hung with thousands of tion Award in 2014. to Write

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A DAY WITH LAUREL- - £r HARDY 842 S. BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES ---_. G. Albert Lansburgh. 1926 AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE

JUNE 22,2019 - 2 P.M. his opulent theatre and office build wood paneling, a mock fireplace, and a ing is the fourth and final home of tile floor. PROGRAM Tthe famed Orpheum vaudeville cir In 2001, the Orpheum underwent a cuit in Los Angeles. $3 million renovation that upgraded WELCOME Its Beaux Arts-style fa<;ade is clad in production capabilities and audience Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy gray terra cotta, with winged helmets amenities while cleaning and restoring and a series of griffins along the cor the theatre's historic elements. The ren HOST nice. The theatre's original electric roof ovation team adapted the upper floors Randy Skretvedt, author top sign continues to illuminate Broad of the former office building into live/ way, along with its neon blade sign from work spaces. SHORT the 1930s and the 1941 marquee. The Conservancy holds an easement The Battle of the Century The Orpheum's lavish French interi on the building, which protects this his or includes a two-story foyer with mar toric theatre in perpetuity. It includes Hal Roach Studios, 1927, 19 minutes ble-clad walls. The auditorium features the exterior and its historic signage, cast plaster detailing, stained-glass interior features of the office building's Silent with live accompaniment by Mark Herman rosettes, and two immense chandeliers entrance lobby and upper-floor hall on the Orpheum's Mighty Wurlitzer Organ suspended from the gilded ceiling. In ways, and interior features and finishes contrast, the theatre's more modest throughout the theatre. STARRING basement lounge boasts dark-stained STAN LAUREL as Prize Fighter OLIVER HARDY as Manager DIRECTED BY Clyde Bruckman

Restored digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

FEATURE Sons of the Desert Hal Roach Studios, 1933, 68 minutes

STARRING STAN LAUREL as Stan OLIVER HARDY as Ollie DIRECTED BY William A. Seiter

35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

SCREENING SPONSORED BY CATHY AND STEVE NEEDLEMAN

17 REBECCA Learn more about your city join us on a walking tour! AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE JUNE 22,2079 - 8 P.M. ANGEliNO HEIGHTS MILLENNIUM First Saturday of the month, 9:'5 a.m. BILTMORE HOTEl PROGRAM Explore the architecture and Sundays at 2 p.m. history of this charming Victorian Learn about the architecture and WElCOME neighborhood east of Echo Park rich history of this magnificent Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy and south of Dodger Stadium. hotel, known in its early days as "The Host of the Coast." Preshow tunes by Mark Herman on the Orpheum's Mighty Wurlitzer Organ ART DECO Thursdays at 11 a.m. UNION STATION FEATURE Saturdays at 70 a.m. Saturdays at 10 a.m. Rebecca Take an in-depth look at the Tour one of L.A.'s most celebrated Selznick International Pictures, 1940, 130 minutes history, materials, and style of Art icons and learn about its architecture, Deco architecture popular in Los art, culture, and social history. STARRING Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s. GROUP TOURS LAURENCE OLIVIER as Maxim de Winter BROADWAY HISTORIC We offer customizable walking JOAN FONTAINE as Mrs. de Winter THEATRE AND tours for private groups. DIRECTED BY Alfred Hitchcock COMMERCIAL DISTRICT Saturdays at 10 a.m. STUDENT TOURS Our highly trained docents make Film print courtesy Disney Explore the social, cinematic, historic L.A. come alive in a and architectural history tangible, understandable, and of this unique street. SCREENING SPONSORED BY exciting way for student groups HISTORIC DOWNTOWN of 3rd through 12th graders. Wednesdays at 11 a.m. LINDA AND JERRY BRUCKHEIMER $10 Conservancy members Saturdays at 10 a.m. youth 17 & under Our most popular tour visits several $15 general public historic and cultural landmarks SCAVENGER HUNT of downtown Los Angeles. Learn more and register at laconservancy.org/tours.

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18 19 mission. The commission could delay expired on March 8, 1980, the property 3780 WILSHIRE BLVD., KOREATOWN demolition for up to one year to explore owners pressed to raze the structure. Morgan. Walls. and Clements. 1931 alternatives. Having successfully preserved the With this slight reprieve for The Wi 1- Art Deco Oviatt Building downtown, amed after its location on Wilshire eventually closing its doors in 1979. tern, the Conservancy worked on many Wayne Ratkovich and his firm at the and Western Boulevards, The Wil When the owner of the building ap fronts to save the building, including a time, Ratkovich, Bowers & Perez, Ntern and its adjoining Pellissier plied for a demolition massive rally that galvanized pub stepped forward and purchased the Building are one of Los Angeles' permit, Rick New lic support and focused wide complex in May 1981. Ratkovich and ar most celebrated Art Deco landmarks. berger's Citizens' attention on the impend chitect Brenda Levin carefully rehabil Originally Warner Brothers' Western Committee to Save ing demolition. To fully itated the theatre, office tower, and re Theatre, the distinctive, blue-green ter the Wiltern, along explore preservation tail street-front spaces, even restoring ra-cotta complex opened in 1931 with with a very young options, the Conser missing original fixtures. the premiere of Alexander Hamilton Los Angeles Con vancy commissioned Ratkovich spent $5 million rehabil starring George Arliss. servancy, sprang an alternative-use itating the Pellissier Building and an Crowds lined Wilshire Boulevard for into action. feasibility study other $4.8 million rehabilitating the a glimpse of the stars in attendance Listed in the with funding from theatre. After four years of extensive including Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, National Register the National Trust renovation and restoration, the building Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, and of Historic Places and theatre re-opened with a gala that James Cagney. and designated ervation. drew over 2,300 people. The theatre interior (designed by G. a Los Angeles As the deadline Today, The Wiltern thrives as a live Albert Lansburgh. who also designed Historic-Cultur for delaying a entertainment venue and a beloved Los the interiors of downtown's Palace and al Monument, demolition per Angeles landmark. The Conservancy Orpheum theatres) features opulent the land marked mit approached, holds a conservation easement on the murals, gold leaf details, and a signa structure could finding a pres complex which protects the historic ture sunburst suspended from its 80- not be demol ervation solu site in perpetuity. It includes The Wi 1- foot auditorium ceiling. ished without tion became tern and Pellissier Building's exterior, The Franklin Ufe Insurance Company review by the critical. When including the twin blade signs and the acquired the building in 1956 and there City's Cultural the one-year theatre marquee and entrance. after the theatre faced a steady decline, Heritage Com- moratorium BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE NETWORK SUNDANCE KID '------' AT THE WILTERN AT THE WILTERN JUNE 29,2079 - 8 P.M. JUNE 29,2079 - 2 P.M. PROGRAM PROGRAM

WELCOME WELCOME Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy Linda Dishman, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy HOST William R. Handley, scholar and author HOST

FEATURE Alan Heim, ACE, film editor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Campanile Productions, 1969, 110 minutes FEATURE

STARRING Network PAUL NEWMAN as Butch Cassidy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1976, 121 minutes ROBERT REDFORD as the Sundance Kid DIRECTED BY Gregory Roy Hill STARRING Film print courtesy Criterion Pictures FAYE DUNAWAY as Diana Christensen

COMMUNITY PARTNER PETER FINCH as Howard Beale DIRECTED BY Sidney Lumet

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