The Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles was designed by B. Marcus Priteca. Alexander Pantages built it in 1929, and it opened on June 4, 1930. It was the last theater he built and the last movie palace built in Hollywood. It is a two-story concrete building in the Art Deco style, with an exterior finished in imitation stone.
The lobby has a fan vault, three frosted glass chandeliers and bronze sunbursts. The stage is 180 feet wide, the second largest west of Chicago. The theater seats 2,691, though it was originally designed for 3,212.
Howard Hughes acquired it for RKO in 1949 and moved his offices to the second floor. The Academy Awards were held there from 1949 to 1959. It reopened for live stage productions in 1977 and became a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1978.
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