"My Best Girl"

We're on Broadway with Mary Pickford on the back of a truck in "My Best Girl" (United Artists, 1927).  She's going north and has pretended to drop her purse in the hope that Buddy Rogers will spot it and come running. He does.

On the right it's the construction fence for the United Artists Theatre, 933 S. Broadway. When it opened  on December 31, 1927 this film was the initial attraction. This Broadway footage begins 13 minutes into the film. Sam Taylor directed. The cinematography was by David Kesson and Charles Rosher.  

 

A shot in the 800 block that, in the film, comes before the previous one. The "Columbia" sign on the right, at 8th and Broadway, is for Columbia Outfitters. The Eastern Columbia Building would rise on that corner in 1930. On the far right it's the Majestic Theatre at 845 S. Broadway. It would be demolished in 1933. 

 

 

Still on the 800 block with the Majestic receding into the distance. On the right, above Mary's head, it's Tally's Broadway at 833 S. Broadway. The awnings on the far right are at the May Co. department store. On the left it's the construction fence at the Platt Music Co. building, just north of the Orpheum. 

 

Up to the 700 block with some of the Loew's State building on the right. Buddy is finally on board. 

 

 

The scene ends with the couple just north of 7th St. Reader, she married him. 

See the pages about the United Artists, the Majestic Theatre, Tally's Broadway, the Orpheum and Loew's State on the Los Angeles Theatres site. 

On IMDb: "My Best Girl"    The full film is on YouTube from Classic Hollywood Movies -- and there's also another post of it from The Cinema Cellar. 

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