This theater has attracted movie stars and Catalina Island residents for 90 years. Now, it may call it a night

Built in 1929 as part of the iconic Catalina Casino and the first cinema in the world designed for talkies, the Avalon Theater once drew legends from Charlie Chaplin to Louis B. Mayer to Marilyn Monroe. Now, Catalina Island residents mourn as the movie house looks on the verge of stopping nightly showings because of economics.