The Egyptian, the first of the grand movie palaces on Hollywood Blvd, premiered Robin Hood in 1922. The theater’s lavish getup – complete with hieroglyphs and sphinx heads – dovetailed nicely with the craze a century ago for all things Egyptian. These days it's a shrine to serious cinema thanks to the nonprofit American Cinematheque and has enjoyed a lavish restoration thanks to Netflix, which is using it for premiers.
Curiously, the venue claimed live caged monkeys and usherettes dressed like Cleopatra in its heyday.
