"Foxes"

Jodie Foster and her teenage friends live in the Valley, yet somehow they end up walking by the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood on their way to school in Adrian Lyne's "Foxes" (United Artists, 1980). The film about drugs, sex and growing up in L.A. also features Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid and Lois Smith.

See the Los Angeles Theatres page about the Ivar Theatre for more about the building. It's a small legit house, now used by the L.A. Film School,  that opened in 1951. 

The girls say they're going to a concert at the Shrine Auditorium. We get lots of shots in a parking lot, a lobby area, and of a group performing onstage. But none of it is identifiable as the Shrine. It could have been shot anywhere. See the main page about the Shrine Auditorium on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a list of many films where the building actually appears.

One of the young ladies goes missing later in the film and we go to Hollywood looking for her. In this shot looking west we get a view in the distance of the madly flashing vertical of the Pix Theatre, 6126 Hollywood Blvd. It had opened as a legit house called the Music Box in 1926 and is now a music venue called the Fonda Theatre. See the Music Box page for many photos.

That red X hiding behind the palm trees on the far right is the sign for the X Theatre at 5959 Hollywood Blvd. See the Los Angeles Theatres page on the X Theatre for a bit of history and a few photos.   We only get a sliver of it here but just beyond the X is the vertical for the World Theatre, 6025 Hollywood Blvd.

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