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In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...
The Vasquez Rocks, situated in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, in northern Los Angeles County, California, have been used as a setting for key scenes in many motion pictures, television shows, music videos, and video games. The following is a partial list of such multimedia in which the rock formations are included:
The Carthay Circle Theater opened at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard on May 18, 1926, with a showing of The Volga Boatman (1926), [1] and was considered developer J. Harvey McCarthy's most successful monument, a stroke of shrewd thinking that made a famous name of the newly developed Carthay Center neighborhood [2] [3] in Los Angeles, California. [4]
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
The Galleria was featured in scenes in several films. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, [20] Valley Girl [9] [20] (aerial, exterior shots), Night of the Comet, Commando, [33] [34] Back to the Future Part II, [34] Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Albert Brooks' Mother, [34] Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge, [35] Walk Like a Man, [36] Innerspace [37 ...
Far from a has-been, the B movie queen continues to work extensively in the genre, with recent credits like Jakob’s Wife (2021), Blackout (2023), and Suitable Flesh (2023). Clinton Gilders ...
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
The not-famous attendees walk a far less noticeable carpet path and are urged (often) to move into the theater and stop gawking. But the flash-lit spectacle is a great show.