Ricardo Montalbán Theatre
Coordinates: 34°6′1.1″N 118°19′36.7″W / 34.100306°N 118.326861°W The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre (also called just "The Montalbán") is a theater in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. It has operated under several names, most notably as the Huntington Hartford Theater.
The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre is located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, on Vine Street between Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard, at the site of the former Robert Northam / Jacob Stern estate. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers and constructed in 1926–1927. Seating 1,200 at the time, it was the first Broadway-style legitimate theater venue in Los Angeles.
It opened January 19, 1927 under the name Wilkes' Vine Street Theatre. The first production was Patrick Kearney's adaption of Dreiser's An American Tragedy which had opened on Broadway in 1926. Other productions mounted at the theatre included Philadelphia.
In March, 1931 the theater was converted to a movie theater, under the name The Mirror, part of a chain run by Howard Hughes and Harold B. Franklin. That company soon fell apart, and by the mid 1930s the theatre was operating under the name Studio Theatre.
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