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The
'Apollo, Harlem': Warner Grand Theater,
San Pedro
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WHAT'S
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CREDITS
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Angela
Bassett plays Tina Turner in this biopic which,
though set all over the US, was made almost entirely
around LA.
Concert scenes were shot in the State
Theater, 703 South Broadway (now a church;
Judy Garland
appeared here in 1929 with the Gumm Sisters); and the
Embassy Auditorium, 851 South
Grand Avenue, both downtown.
The ëRitz Club, New Yorkí, which no longer exists,The
ëPalaceí is the Avalon
Hollywood, 1735 North Vine Street opposite the
Capitol Records Tower, by Hollywood Boulevard. Built
as the Hollywood Playhouse in 1927, the theatre became
El Capitan in 1942, venue for many TV shows including
This Is Your Life in the
fifties. It became the Hollywood PalaceTheater in 1964
and rock/jazz club Avalon in 2003 (tel: 213.462.8900)
(seen also in Against
All Odds).
Harlemís famous ëApollo Theaterí is played by the Warner
Grand Theater, 478 West Sixth Street in San
Pedro (you can see the exterior of the theatre
in Pearl
Harbor), and the sixties dance show uses Hollywoodís
Nickelodeon on Sunset
(previously the Star Search Theater and the Aquarius),
6230 Sunset Boulevard.
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The
'Ritz Club, New York': The Avalon Hollywood,
Vine Street
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The briefly-glimpsed theatre, where Turner is about
to perform when she finally cracks and does a runner,
is S Charles Leeís Streamline Moderne masterpiece, the
Academy Theater, 3100 Manchester
Boulevard at Crenshaw Boulevard (now used
as a church), in Inglewood,
just east of Los Angeles Airport.
The ëFairmont Hotel, San Franciscoí, where Tina makes
her solo dÈbut, is the Ballroom of the Park
Plaza Hotel, 607 South Park View Street,
downtown LA (seen in countless films, including Martin
Scorsese's New York, New
York, Richard
Attenborough's biopic Chaplin
and Steven
Spielberg's Hook
among many others).
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The
'Fairmont, San Francisco': Ballroom of the park
Plaza Hotel, downtown LA
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Ike (Laurence
Fishburne) and Tina have a massive bust-up at Johnieís
Broiler, 7447 Firestone Boulevard, Downey,
seen also in Michael
Mann's Heat,
Reality Bites and
Robert Altman's
Short Cuts. The
diner closed in 2001 and is now a used car dealership.
Itís the real Turner home seen in the movie. While researching
the picture, it was discovered that the house had remained
virtually untouched since the sixties, even down to
the lamps, the wallpaper ‚ and a portrait of Ike.
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