Paris Theatre
8163 Santa Monica Boulevard,
West Hollywood,
CA
90046
8163 Santa Monica Boulevard,
West Hollywood,
CA
90046
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Les Poupees des Paris was a Sid and Marty Krofft marionette show originally designed for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. They were beautiful marionettes and looked nothing like the costume characters in the Krofft TV shows like Pufnstuf. I know they were still touring a version of Les Poupees in the 70s because I saw a truncated version at King’s Island Amusement Park in Ohio. If you search ebay, you may occasionally find the original RCA cast album. The best cut is “It’s a Living” featuring Liberace and Jayne Mansfield!
This theater was called the Paris for more than a decade, at least. I remember it by that name from the early 1960s. If memory serves, at that time it was not showing movies, but was the venue of a long-running, rather risque (for the time) stage show called something like “Les Poupees de Paris” (which the scandalized mother of a friend of mine said was “a dirty puppet show.”) I never saw it, alas. I think I’d have enjoyed a dirty puppet show.
The Carmel Theater opened on 19th November 1924. The architect was Lewis A. Smith (L.A. Smith) and was built for West Coast Theaters.
When operating as a successful adult movie house (re-named the Paris Theatre) it was seriously damaged by fire in January 1976 and was demolished.
Also known as the Paris Theatre, this was located at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Crescent Heights.
The Fox Carmel Theatre was located at 8163 Santa Monica Blvd.