the Fox Theatre (6508 hollywood blvd), was originally called the Iris Theatre. There’s some architectural history here but it’s just that: history. The Romanesque Revival design completed by Frank Meline in 1918 was brought into the Art Deco era with a 1934 redo by noted theatre architect S. Charles Lee. That redo was redonein 1955 (when it became a Fox property) and redone again in 1968; that’s essentially what you see today. It closed in 1994, by then a Mann property, citing earthquake damage. It’s a nightclub today.
It’s believed that Iris opened the theatre with D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” already three years old. It’s also believed that Carol Burnett worked here at the Fox, as well as at the Warner (Pacific) across the street.
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