The Earl Carroll Theatre at 6230 Sunset Boulevard was the second such venture of impresario and showman Earl Carroll.--the first being located on Broadway in New York City (1922).

Opened on Christmas Day, 1938, The Hollywood Earl Carroll Theatre was described as an "entertainment palace." The glamorous supper club-theatre offered shows on a massive stage with a 60-foot double revolving turntable and staircase plus swings that could be lowered from the ceiling. The building's facade was adorned by what at the time was one of Hollywood's most famous landmarks: a 20-foot high neon head portrait of entertainer Beryl Wallace, one of Earl Carroll's "most beautiful girls in the world."

The theater was sold following Carroll's death in the 1948 crash of a United Airlines flight. The theater continued to operate, but fell on hard times in the 1950s. Beginning in 1953, it operated for a while as a nightclub under the name, the "Moulin Rouge," owned by Las Vegas showman Frank Sennes. The huge theater has been used for a variety of purposes since then and the City of Los Angeles Historic Preservation Board has worked to assure that the theater is protected from becoming the site of yet another parking lot.