Above: The rehabilitated interior of Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, which originally opened in Los Angeles in 1922. When Parisians flocked to the corner of Boulevard des Capucines and rue de la ...

Sid Grauman ran the downtown Metropolitan, the largest theater in Los Angeles, before moving to Hollywood Boulevard in 1922 when he opened Grauman’s Egyptian, where he invented the movie ...

Mayer (later, the second M in MGM). But the first example of truly ambitious cinema design was Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The boxing promoter Sid Grauman spent $800,000 on constructing a ...