Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zukor's 80th birthday, and Hollywood associates and friends decided to celebrate. They whisked the old man off to the West Coast, where he was whirled through luncheons, press conferences and interviews. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, Zukor arrived by limousine to place his footprints in wet cement near those of such immortals as Betty Grable and Ava Gardner; the event went off without a hitch except for a slight delay when Zukor insisted on removing his good black shoes and substituting an old pair...
...Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...
MOST famous cinema stars have, at one time or another, placed their hands & feet in a block of wet cement in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thereby receiving some desirable publicity and, after the cement has hardened, attaining a certain immortality. The only columnist who has been so honored is Louella Oettinger Parsons...
...event began, the usual klieg lights were dimmed by ten antiaircraft searchlights that threw 15-mile beams up over Grauman's Chinese Theater. Snappily uniformed attendants parked the arriving Cadillacs (many rented for the evening at $25). From the red-carpeted curb, past an awed crowd of sandwich-munching fans in bleachers around the entrance, stepped scores of stars into the arms of 14 pressagents, who whisked them to a platform for an amplified introduction. The standard response: "I hear this is one of the greatest pictures . . ." Inside were 32 special usherettes and four extra theater managers from other...