Fox Stadium Theatre

8906 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90035

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Previously operated by: Fox West Coast Theatres

Architects: Carl Boller, Robert O. Boller

Firms: Boller Brothers

Functions: Synagogue

Styles: Art Deco

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Fox Stadium Theatre interior

The Fox Stadium Theatre is a standard Fox West Coast Theatres neighborhood house located on the southern side of Beverly Hills. It opened on March 5, 1931 with Edmund Lowe in “Don’t Bet on Women” & Laurel & Hardy in “Be Big”. It had seating arranged in a stadium style, with a raised stepped section at the rear, rather than an overhanging balcony. The theatre has a nice stage area and fly space above. The Stadium Theatre was closed September 5, 1961 with Cantinflas in “Pepe” and Loretta Parry & John Gregson in “Hand in Hand”. By March 1965 it had been converted into a synagogue.

One of the few theatres on W. Pico Boulevard that has not been razed.

Contributed by William Gabel

Recent comments (view all 37 comments)

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on April 11, 2010 at 9:41 pm

Very Nice photos.

Lee
Lee on November 26, 2011 at 11:16 pm

When did this close as a movie theatre?

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 8, 2013 at 7:23 am

It closed sometime in 1960. I was there at the final show.

haineshisway
haineshisway on October 2, 2015 at 9:32 am

I’ve always thought the theater closed in 1960 but my memory is pretty infallible about where I saw things, and I could swear that I saw The Devil at 4 O'Clock at the Stadium – that film came out in October of 1961. Wish there were some way to check it, but my newspaper stuff starts in late 1961 and it’s gone by then. I do have a 1960 newspaper somewhere and I’ll try to find it. I’m just wondering if I didn’t see Devil at 4 O'Clock there where I would have seen it?

haineshisway
haineshisway on October 6, 2015 at 5:47 am

Yes, definitely saw Devil at 4 O'Clock there and just a couple of months earlier I saw The Naked Edge there. So it closed after October 1961, maybe even in early 1962.

haineshisway
haineshisway on May 17, 2016 at 8:22 am

Nope, closed in 1961 after The Naked Edge – within a couple of months.

DarthHaggis
DarthHaggis on March 5, 2018 at 7:58 pm

Last 2 films showed were on Tuesday Sept 05th 1961 (pg 87 LA Times)

Pepe (1960) Hand in Hand (1961)

haineshisway
haineshisway on February 18, 2020 at 7:38 am

So, I’m guessing The Devil at 4 O'Clock or Naked Edge would have been the show prior to the final double bill. I’m actually shocked I didn’t go see the final bill – I saw Pepe at the Four Star and loved it and I saw Hand in Hand at the nearby Picfair and loved it, too. And now that I think about it, maybe I did see that final double bill.

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