Burbank Theatre
548 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
548 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
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My uncle, Allen E. Hanson, was a projectionist at the Burbank in the late 40’s, when they still showed movies AND had live burlesque entertainment. My aunt would bring him his lunch and we’d watch the movie in the little seating area just outside the projection booth, then, when the live “comic” came on stage and before the first stripper came out my aunt would grab me by the arm and hustle me down the stairs to the street. (I was about 6 or 7, I think.) Never DID get to see Tempest Storm’s act until I took in the Palm Springs Follies a few years ago. She still looked pretty great!
The Burbank is featured in the opening sequences of Sam Fuller’s film, The Crimson Kimono, filmed February-March 1959.
Known as Pelton’s Burbank in 1919:
http://tinyurl.com/2s5qeu
Here is an October 1915 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2q5g9f
He was doomed one way or another, apparently. I hope he had AFLAC.
vokoban: The card has only the date, alas.
Ken: Oliver Morosco died in 1945 (hit by a streetcar in Los Angeles), so I guess he survived his fall down the stairs.
The Burbank, by the way, is were Morosco had his first success- and his success was the Burbank’s first success as well. Here is Time Magazine’s obituary for Oliver Morosco.
does the card catalog list a section and page number?
The closest hit was when Oliver Morosco fell down the stairs. He was in bad shape. I don’t know if he survived that accident.
The reference is from a card in the California Index at the L.A. library. It might be a different edition of the paper. They sometimes did several editions a day in those days. It could also be a typo on the index card. The library does make a disturbing number of mistakes.
I can’t find that article either. Joe, are you sre about the date of the article?
Joe, how did you find the article? I keep looking through the paper for that day and can’t find it.
The airplanes didn’t show movies in 35 mm. Did the Queen Mary?
The remodeling that gave the Burbank its streamlined facade took place in 1937, according to an article in The Los Angeles Times of October 17 that year.
alright…maybe i wasn’t clear….let’s just sink that ship
I never said the Queen Mary was built for that purpose….I said that the enclosed theater within the ship was built for that purpose….and i also already said that I never planned on adding it to Cinema Treasures….I think someone maybe just likes to argue about nothing…or I could be wrong. The silly thing is that there is nothing remotely controversial or debatable in this discussion.
Well, it was built specifically to show movies as a theater…I don’t think just because its on a ship really matters even though I’m not much interested in theaters built after 1950. It’s not like a plane or somewhere where they happen to show movies at times.
I wonder if that would be considered a “float-in” theater.
I wasn’t going to add it….just wondered since its pretty much stuck in Long Beach now.
All I’ve been able to find out is that it was added to the ship in the 60’s or 70’s and seats 150 people.
I didn’t know there was a theater on the Queen Mary.
It does look later than the 1880’s. Does anyone know if there is a CT page for the movie theater on the Queen Mary? I think its called the Royal. I’m going there tomorrow and wanted to see if there was any information about it.
Part of the Burbank is on the left in this USC photo, according to the information given by the archives. I think the date is wrong, probably 1920s as opposed to 1880s:
http://tinyurl.com/37jecf
Here is another view, same date:
http://tinyurl.com/2yyrpe
The Burbank is at the bottom of this 1907 USC photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yvrtzs
Ken mc….that story would make a good graphic novel episode.