Sid Grauman was a San Francisco showman who came to Los Angeles and built three major houses, the Million Dollar, the Egyptian, and the Chinese. The theater has hosted many film premieres, but is most famous for the hand and footprints (and hoofprints and nose prints and other types of prints) in the forecourt.
Movie mogul Adolph Zukor left his hand and foot prints in the
forecourt of Grauman's Chinese on 05-January-1953. Zukor was one of the
founders of the Famous Players Film Company ("Famous Players in Famous
Plays") in 1912. Famous Players eventually evolved into Paramount. Zukor
was still chairman emeritus when he died in 1976 at 103. DSCN4153.
I took this on 18-July-2009.
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| Moving Picture World, 25-July-1914 |
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