Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long while show business was tough indeed. Larry was in Chicago looking for work when he read a Variety ad: Sid Grauman was casting in Hollywood. A wire went out to Grauman: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER IS AT THE CHICAGO THEATER. The Wire Was signed "Louie Lipstone," the name of the head man at the Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece...
...libel suit that has yet included Confidential's 3,000 California distributors as well as the magazine, Screen Star Maureen (The Quiet Man) O'Hara asked for $1,000,000 in damages for a March story that claimed she once picked row 35 of Hollywood's Grauman theater for an off-screen amour...
...favorite theory of many top movie writers that nothing is quite so worth studying as the workings of their own industry are the corollaries that all these folk, with their immense fortunes, are just as miserable as the next fellow and that everyone within a fifty mile radius of Grauman's Chinese is awfully lonely behind the facade of glamor and sophistication. Perhaps these doctrines are healthy sops for those who go whole days without being asked for an autograph, but they are rather boring, especially when thrown into an already crowded agenda...
...jail, ruin their means of livelihood) that they are able to dictate which movies a free people will or will not see? ... Los Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager, not the Legion's goon squad, las selected...
...theaters booked Charles Chaplin's Limelight than one of Hollywood's most feared critics, the American Legion, went to work. After visits from the local Legion post and from representatives of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (president: Cinemactor Ward Bond), the theaters (Grauman's Chinese, the Downtown and El Rey in Los Angeles) decided to substitute Niagara for Limelight rather than chance the Legion's pickets...