Friday, August 5, 2022

"I Want To Live"

The Admiral Theatre gets a shot in Robert Wise's "I Want To Live" with Susan Hayward (United Artists, 1958). We're looking west from Hollywood & Vine toward the Warner. The theatre is playing "Saratoga Trunk" (1945) with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman along with "The Square Jungle" (1955) with Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine.  

Thanks to GS Jansen for posting the screenshot on his Noirish Los Angeles post #23572

We get the same shot repeated in Joseph Newman's "The George Raft Story" (Allied Artists, 1961) with Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield and Julie London. For the purposes of "Raft" the towers of the Warner in the distance with the neon saying "Cinerama" are a bit of an anachronism.

The theatre, at 6321 Hollywood Blvd., was renamed the Vine Theatre in 1969. See the Los Angeles Theatres page about the house for many more photos. 

On IMDb: "I Want To Live

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