Metropolitan's Marina Del Rey Theatre

4786 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey, CA 90292   | map |

Opened: June 30, 1971 by Metropolitan Theatres.  Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated community just south of Venice, which is part of Los Angeles. 

It was a single screen house at the south end of a shopping center at Admiralty Way and Fiji Way. Admiralty is a block west of Highway 1, Lincoln Blvd. In ads they listed it as "Lincoln Blvd. at Fiji Way." It had an automated booth and ran as a manager-operator situation.  

Seating: 247 seats 

Architect: Unknown 

The not-yet-opened theatre was featured in an article in the June 7, 1971 article in Boxoffice:

 Thanks to Cinema Treasures contributor MovieJS1944 for locating the article. 

 

A June 30, 1971 opening day ad. Thanks to Mike Rivest for locating it. Visit his site: Movie-Theatre.org 

 

 

An October 1971 "Blue Water, White Death" ad located by Ken McIntyre.  

 

A 1973 ad for "The Poseidon Adventure," also playing at two other Metropolitan theatres, the Orpheum downtown and the Doheny Plaza in Beverly Hills, now called the Writers Guild Theatre. 

 

A 1976 ad for "The Ritz" and "Shampoo." Thanks to Brade48 for locating this as well as two other 1976 ads for the Cinema Treasures page.  

 

February 1977 listings in the L.A. Times.  

 

 

The theatre, listed as the "Marina," was included in this October 1978 booking of "The Greek Tycoon" and "House Calls." Thanks to Ken McIntyre for finding the ad.  

Closing: October 1978 was the end. Thanks to Ken for the research. He notes that by the time of the October 18 listing in the L.A. Times it was "Call Theatre for Program."   

Status: It's been remodeled and is unrecognizable. By 1980 it had become retail space. For ten years the 4786 address was a burger joint, The Counter. It's now another burger joint, Shake Shack. 

Looking in from Fiji Way at the former theatre location at the south end of the mall building. It was in the corner space seen in the center of this shot. Image: Google - 2025  

 

An Admiralty Way view of the south end of the strip mall. The free-standing building straight ahead uses a Fiji Way address and was a California Pizza Kitchen for a time. Image: Google - 2025  

More information: See the Cinema Treasures page on the Marina Del Rey Theatre. 

Nearby: AMC Marina Marketplace 6 and AMC Dine-In Marina 6. 

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