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Arts & Festivals in Long Beach, California

From theatre to concerts to arts and craft festivals, Long Beach holds over 200 special events per year. Enjoy a variety of performances on the Long Beach State campus, including theatre and music, plus lots of non-university productions as well. Discover something new at an area museum! Of course, Long Beach has got popular culture as well, with several clubs offering live music, plenty of athletic events and lots of local festivals and special events.

Arts & Festivals in Long Beach, California

 

 

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Silent movie stars who lived in Long Beach included Fatty Arbuckle and Theda Bara. The 1917 film Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara, was filmed at the Dominguez Slough just west of Long Beach, and Moses parted the Red Sea for Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 black-and-white version of "The Ten Commandments" on the flat seashore of Seal Beach, southeast of Long Beach.