Raymond Burr takes a walk south on the 500 block of S. Main at the very beginning of Peter Godfrey's film noir "Please Murder Me" (Distributors Corporation of America, 1956).
He's just passed the entrance to a hotel upstairs and is approaching the Art Theatre, 551 S. Main. Judging by that silhouette, they're no longer running traditional Hollywood product.
A bit more of the signage is visible a couple steps later. The "striptease" they're advertising above the entrance doors is on film. The Art wasn't a theatre with live burlesque shows -- but the Burbank was right across the street.
Well, he's not going to the movies. And he's going to pass up the pawn shop next door in favor of going to another one and buying a gun. It'll be used in the last scene. The film also stars Angela Lansbury, Dick Foran and John Dehner.
See the Art Theatre page on the Los Angeles Theatres site. for more about the theatre, opened in 1918 and demolished in the 80s.
On IMDb: "Please Murder Me"
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