"Pretty Woman"

It's dusk and we get a fine look down at the Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd, during the opening credits of Garry Marshall's "Pretty Woman" (Buena Vista / Touchstone, 1990). The film features Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo and Ralph Bellamy. The cinematography was by Charles Minsky. 

 

Richard Gere is lost trying to get to his hotel in Beverly Hills and ends up in Hollywood where we get a view of one of the dragon marquees at Mann's Chinese, 6925 Hollywood Blvd. 

 

He stops to ask some streetwalkers for directions and Julia offers to help. Here we're looking east from Las Palmas toward the Vogue theatre, 6675 Hollywood Blvd. She lives in an apartment building just up Las Palmas that we see later in the film. 

 

We get a partial view of the Egyptian across the street at 6712 Hollywood Blvd. By this time it was a triplex operation with two smaller theatres added in a nearby building. "Field of Dreams" was running in the big house. 

 

In a later visit to Hollywood Blvd. we get this shot looking west. In the background it's the Mann Chinese Twin, 6915 Hollywood Blvd. 

 

The film ends with Richard and Julia on the fire escape of her apartment building on Las Palmas. On the right we're looking toward Hollywood Blvd. and there's a look at the screen end of the Vogue Theatre.

See the pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site about the Pantages, the Chinese, the Chinese Twin, the Vogue and the Egyptian for a history of these Hollywood theatres and many, many photos.   

On IMDb: "Pretty Woman"