Margaret Sullavan gets a job as an usherette in a large movie palace in Budapest in "The Good Fairy (Universal, 1935). The lobby of the Pantages in Hollywood is what we see as the theatre's lobby. William Wyler directed the film that also features Herbert Marshall and Frank Morgan.
Ms. Sullavan has a neon arrow to direct patrons right or left as they enter the inner lobby at the rear of the main floor.
Herbert Marshall gets distracted by the flashlight. Nope, not a shot done at the Pantages.
Watching a tearjerker. Nice seats but not the ones at the Pantages.
A lobby card for the film. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this from his collection. It's on Flickr.
There's another lobby shot from the film on page 35 of the Arcadia Publishing book "Location Filming in Los Angeles" by Karie Bible, Marc Wanamaker and Harry Medved. The page with the Pantages shot is included in the preview on Google Books.
See the pages about the Pantages Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres website for hundreds of photos of the building.
On IMDb: "The Good Fairy"
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