UCLA Nimoy Theatre
1262 Westwood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
1262 Westwood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
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I see in your future…a trip to the downtown Los Angeles Central Library…
MagicLantern: Could you contact me at if you have any suggestions about researching architects, such as Mr. Hawes? I have questions, but little experience!
They usually mosey through the comments sometime during the day. Squeaky wheel, grease, etc. The theatre’s in walking distance of every other theatre in Westwood, too.
Maybe. Perhaps it’s because Westwood is in Los Angeles County. Also, the architectural designer (Arthur W. Hawes) should be identified in the profile, too, now that he is known.
Who knows how to contact the administartion with updates?
Shouldn’t this be listed as being located in Westwood, not Los Angeles?
The suicide of Frances Seymour Fonda (formerly Mrs. George Tuttle Brokaw) was kept from her daughter Jane. Though the New York socialite killed herself in 1950 by cutting her own throat, the 12-year-old Jane was told that her mother had died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of Fonda’s high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
It is still a first run house. With the loss of 2 of the 3 multiplexes in Westwood (Mann Westwood 4, UA Westwood 4), this theatre will continue to get first run bookings for a long time…
Is this still a first run house? I wonder why Pacific got rid of it?
The architect of this theater is named as Arthur W. Hawes, and the owner as Frances S. Fonda, in a notice about its planned construction published in Southwest Builder and Contractor, issue of April 12, 1940. The place must not have opened until 1941, or very late 1940.
(Yes, eadkins, Frances Fonda was Mrs. Henry Fonda, Jane’s mother.)
And, like Moviemanforever, I saw “Five Easy Pieces” at this theater- though it wasn’t on the night when they did the preview of “The Owl and The Pussycat.”
I’ve been told that Henry Fonda built and ran the Westwood Theatre for a period of time.
The Crest is no longer owned by Pacific theatres. It was sold to a theatre buff for 3.5 Million. Brucec
When this theatre was built in the early 30’s, it was called the Westwood Theatre. It later changed it’s name to the UCLAN Theatre in the late 40’s-early 50’s. After that it changed to the Crest Theatre till SRO Theatres remodeled it, and changed the named again to the Metro Theatre. Then back to the Crest Theatre. During the 60’s this theatre was operated by Statewide theatres then Century Theatres then Loew’s Theatres. Then GCC Theatres in the 70’s, then to SRO theatres then to Pacific Theatres.
Before Disney remodeled this theatre, SRO theatres remodeled it around the early 80’s. It was called The Metro. It also had a art deco style (different from The Crest today). When Disney was remodeling, they uncovered the old poster display cases, that had been covered since the late 70’s (They still had posters in the display from the movie “A Piece of the Action”. There is talk that Pacific may be closing or is interested in closing this theatre.