Warner Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, CA
9404 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Deco
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1500
Chain: Unknown
Architect: B. Marcus Priteca


Vintage exterior view of the Warner Beverly Hills (circa 1938)

Designed by Marcus Priteca in the early 1930's, the Warner was a medium sized theater, designed after its sisters in Huntington Park and San Pedro. This theater, like the other two Warners (the Pantages and the Wiltern), are outstanding examples of what Art Deco can be.

With changing times and audiences & neighborhoods, the large Beverly Hills theaters would soon become parking lots, banks, and office buildings. The only theater to be saved was the Wilshire Theatre.

A few years ago when the restored Lawrence of Arabia was having its special reissue premiere in Los Angeles, the Warner was being torn down. Ironically, the Warner was the site of the original LA premiere for the film.