Bob Hope Theatre, Art deco movie palace in Downtown Stockton, United States

Bob Hope Theatre is a 1930 movie palace in downtown Stockton, renamed in 2004 after Bob Hope. Its two-story rotunda has a circular mezzanine, and the auditorium seats 2,500. The stage measures 90 by 30 feet and rises 70 feet, with choir rooms, band rooms, offices and dressing rooms on the lower level.

The site held T&D Photoplay, Stockton's first theater, which Fox West Coast Theaters leased and renamed The California in 1921. That building was demolished in 1929, and the new Fox California Theater opened on October 14, 1930, with Spencer Tracy in Up the River before about 20,000 attendees. It closed in 1973, was listed on the National Register in 1979, was donated to the city in 2000, and reopened in September 2004 as the Bob Hope Theatre after renovation.

The Robert Morton organ, built in 1928 for Seattle's Fox Theater to accompany silent films, was restored by Friends of the Fox and the Sierra Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society; it debuted in concert here in 2005 and is played at classic movie screenings. The theater reopened in September 2004 with a Jerry Seinfeld performance.

The auditorium seats 2,500 across orchestra and mezzanine levels, with a stage 90 by 30 feet and 70 feet high. The 2004 renovation added a new sound system and a 1,200-square-foot Italian marble floor mosaic, while keeping the original chandelier and exterior lobby tile. The restored 1928 Robert Morton organ is played during classic movie showings.

The 1928 Robert Morton organ came from Seattle's Fox Theater, where it accompanied silent films; volunteers from Friends of the Fox and the Sierra Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society restored it, and it made its concert debut here in 2005. It is played during classic movie showings.