Grauman's Egyptian Theater
Grauman's Egyptian Theater ( The Egyptian ) is a movie theater in Hollywood ( Los Angeles ), United States. It opened in 1922. The address is 6712 Hollywood Boulevard .
history
The cinema complex was designed by Sid Grauman , who also built the nearby Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Million Dollar Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles . The Milwaukee Building Company built it for $ 800,000 in 18 months.
The Egyptian premiered in Hollywood on October 18, 1922. The film Robin Hood by the silent film star Douglas Fairbanks was shown. The film was not shown in any other Hollywood movie theater that year.
The floor plan and design of the cinema were adopted by other cinemas in the USA. Some even called themselves the Egyptian Theater .
The exterior of the cinema is in the New Egyptian style , which after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 and the resulting media hype , other buildings around the world took up. Carter did not discover the grave until two weeks after the cinema opened, however, and an originally planned Hispanic style for the cinema was quickly changed into an Egyptian one, with Egyptian drawings and hieroglyphics being placed on the outer and inner walls . The four massive columns at the main entrance have a diameter of 1.3 meters and a height of six meters.
The entrance inside the complex in a 13.7 meter wide and 45.7 meter long courtyard with a fountain and palm trees was designed so that the red carpet ceremonies could take place there.
Current condition
In 1996 the complex was sold to the American Cinematheque for a symbolic dollar , with the condition that it be preserved as a monument in its original style. The American Cinematheque organized fundraising for the renovation and also made the cinema available for theatrical exhibitions. It reopened in 1998 after an extensive renovation at a cost of $ 12.8 million. The original hall held 2,000 spectators, now the main hall for 616 and a smaller one for 77 spectators. The larger hall was named after the philanthropist Lloyd E. Rigler , the smaller after the director Steven Spielberg .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 6 ′ 3 ″ N , 118 ° 20 ′ 11 ″ W.