Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...
...Tillie Siegel, 50, of Los Angeles, sued Grauman's Chinese Theater for $5,000 damages. Mrs. Siegel claimed that she had stubbed her toe on Greer Garson's footprint in the cement outside the theater, fallen and suffered bruises, scratches and "discomfort...
Prologues and Premeers. From the start in Hollywood, Grauman concocted enormously successful madcapitalist "innovations." One of these was having movie stars make personal appearances. Another was the "prologue," the ancestor of today's stage show. The most famous and flamboyant was the "premeer"-the klieg-lighted, red-carpeted opening night, when crowds lined the streets for miles, cameras clicked, searchlights stabbed the heavens, movie stars drove up in state and were, one by one, escorted into the theater by Grauman himself...
...premeer Wilson Mizner drove up to the Egyptian in a dilapidated Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...