United Artists Theater - Los Angeles, CA

The downtown United Artists Theatre was opened on December 26, 1927 with Mary Pickford & Buddy Rodgers in "My Best Girl". Built by the founders of United Artists Pictures; Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford, who needed the massive Spanish Gothic style movie palace as a venue... Read More

The downtown United Artists Theatre was opened on December 26, 1927 with Mary Pickford & Buddy Rodgers in "My Best Girl". Built by the founders of United Artists Pictures; Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford, who needed the massive Spanish Gothic style movie palace as a venue for world premieres of their movies. The castles and cathedrals that Fairbanks and Pickford saw on their honeymoon in Spain, inspired them to instruct architect C. Howard Crane to design their movie palace in that style. It was replicated the following year in the United Artists Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. See Less