"Someone to Love"

 The Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica is the location for most of the running time of Henry Jaglom's "Someone To Love" (Rainbow Film Company, 1988). The film features Andrea Marcovicci, Sally Kellerman, Oja Kadar, Orson Welles, Michael Emil and Miles Kruger. 

 

 

Here Henry and his brother, played by Michael Emil, are trying to get in the front door of the closed theatre. Earlier Michael has explained to Henry that he's a silent partner in a real estate deal and that they own the theatre. But not for long. Michael has already engineered a deal to flip it to some developers who will put up a strip mall in its place.  

 

 

 

A bit of ornament around an exit sign at the head of an aisle. 

 

 

A peek into the darkened auditorium. 

 

 

Henry at the rear of the house. 

 

 

 A bit of side wall decor. 

 

Brother Michael chatting in the lobby with Miles Kruger, a thespian who has been left in charge of the doomed theatre. 

 

 

 

Another look toward the stage. Henry decides to have a party on Valentine's Day. He sends invitations to everyone he knows who's single and sends them mysterious invitations. His intention: start conversations to inquire as to why they're single at the moment. And film the event. 

 

The crew and some of the participants onstage. Note that curious brick wall upstage. It's unknown what the stage configuration was before the theatre's 1929 remodel. 

 

 

Sally Kellerman arrives. 

 

A look over to the house left box and another view of the brick upstage wall. 

 

 

Back in the house left corner for a conversation with Oja Kadar. 

 

 

Time for a meal break in the restaurant space upstairs. 

 

 

A look at the proscenium. 

 

 

A closer look at the ornament at the top of the proscenium. 

 

 

Henry having a conversation onstage with Andrea Marcovicci, playing his girlfriend. 

  

 

Andrea headed up the aisle near the end of the film. She's had enough.

 

 

With coat on and ready to go, Andrea peeks back in to ask: "Did you get enough footage?"

See the Los Angeles Theatres page about the Mayfair Theatre for more about the building. All that's left now is the facade with a new mixed-use building behind it.

On IMDb: "Someone to Love"