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Title:
Miami Theatre. 1946-1947 - Miami
Description:
The Miami Theatre in downtown Miami, Florida, was Lee's last major motion picture theatre in the grand tradition of the movie palaces of the 1920s and 1930s. After 1950, smaller neighborhood theatres and Drive-ins became more popular with the development of the suburbs. The Miami, however, was one of Lee's largest and most all-encompassing designs executed in the United States. The complex included not only a motion picture theatre, which included a legitimate stage but also a restaurant and a candy store, all in a downtown urban setting. In the design, which was largely executed as shown in the renderings, Lee married Baroque and Rococo elements with Streamline Moderne features, producing an unusually eclectic design. The renderings show murals with sea-life motifs, suggesting that Lee drew inspiration from seashell and wave forms for many aspects of the design, which may account for the Baroque and Rococo-appearing design elements. Although demolished, the theatre is one of the most extensively documented in the S. Charles Lee Collection at UCLA.The design of the façade, with its diamond-patterned panels and ornate cartouche is echoed in the interior. On the left is Huyler's, a candy shop and restaurant that was part of the theatre complex. The narrow site and the height of the building to the rear reflect the two-tier balcony and the long narrow plan of the auditorium, a scheme that Lee had used in his first major theatre, the Tower Theatre in Los Angeles.
Publisher:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Date:
1946-1947
Format:
Facade 8 × 10.
Identifier:
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8b69q5wk
Box 4
Folder 8