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The lobby:
The standee area at the rear of the main floor. The photo is on Calisphere from the UCLA S. Charles Lee Papers Collection.
The auditorium:
A proscenium view from the back of the main floor. The photo is on Calisphere from the UCLA S. Charles Lee Papers Collection.
The house left wall. The photo is on Calisphere from the UCLA S. Charles Lee Papers Collection.
The rear of the house. The photo is on Calisphere from the UCLA S. Charles Lee Papers Collection.
A closer look at the ornament on the front of the balcony. Thanks to John Bengtson for the screenshot from the film "That Little Band of Gold" (Keystone, 1915).
The house left boxes at balcony level. It's another screenshot by John Bengtson from "That Little Band of Gold. " See the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies post for more shots at the Follies from the film.
A wonderful balcony view from the B'hend & Kaufmann Archives/Terry Helgesen Collection. It's a promotional still for the Mae West film "Every Day's a Holiday" (Paramount, 1937). See the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies post for more from the film at the Follies.
On the runway in the 40s. Note S. Charles Lee's revamped proscenium and boxes. It's photo by Cliff Wesselmann, longtime Los Angeles Daily News photographer, from the Cliff Wesselmann Collection / Gregory P. Williams Partnership. It appears in Jim Heimann's 1999 book "Sins of the City - The Real Los Angeles Noir" from Chronicle Books. It's available on Amazon. It's also in the 2009 Taschen book "Los Angeles" Portrait of a City" by Kevin Starr, David L. Ulin and Jim Heimann.
The photo also makes appearances with Leslie Zemekis' 2013 article for Huffington Post "A School for Strippers: The ABCs of Stripping" and on Noirish Los Angeles in GS Jansen's Noirish post #970 and Ethereal Reality's Noirish post #973.
Gregory P. Williams is the author of the award winning book "The Story of Hollywood." An article about Williams, the evolution of the book, and the purchase of the Cliff Wesselmann collection appeared in a 2011 story by Peter Larsen in the O.C. Register. "The Story of Hollywood" is available on Amazon. There's also a Google Books preview.
A detail from the Cliff Wesselman photo.
Gay Dawn checking out a proscenium column in "Everybody's Girl" (Broadway Roadshow Attractions,
1950). The film was shot at the Follies and directed by Lillian Hunt, who managed the shows at
the theatre.
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fine shot of the proscenium with Diana Ross as Billie Holiday onstage
singing "Mean To Me" in Sydney Furie's "Lady Sings the Blues"
(Paramount, 1972). See the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies post for several more shots at the Follies as well as views of a scene at the Wilshire Ebell.
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