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	Sid Grauman's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sidney Patrick Grauman was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater.
		Grauman's Chinese Theater is now one of the ten most-visited places in Southern California.
		Grauman received an honorary Academy Award in 1949 for raising the standard for film exhibition.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GlendaleObituaries/sidgrauman.htm (172 words)

	Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grauman's Chinese Theatre was built by a showman, Sid Grauman, who owned a one-third interest with his partners, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Howard Schenck.
		Grauman's is also famous for the collection of handprints, footprints, and autographs that nearly 200 Hollywood celebrities have imprinted in the cement of the theater's forecourt over the years.
		Variations of this honored tradition are imprints of the eyeglasses of Harold Lloyd, the cigars of Groucho Marx and George Burns, the legs of Betty Grable, the fist of John Wayne, the knees of Al Jolson, the ice skating blades of Sonja Henie and the noses of Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grauman's_Chinese_Theatre (982 words)

	Sid Grauman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grauman's Chinese Theater is now one of the ten most-visited places in Southern California.
		Grauman received an honorary Academy Award in 1949 for raising the standard for film exhibition.
		One of Grauman's surviving (albeit somewhat distant) relatives is film and television director Walter Grauman, who still lives in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sid_Grauman (232 words)

	Grauman's Chinese Theater - Hollywood Boulevard
		The theater was known as Mann's Chinese from 1973 until 2001, when the original name of Grauman's was restored.
		Built by Sid Grauman in 1926 the exterior of the theatre is just as exciting as its famous forecourt.
		Many of the celebrity autographs mention "Sid" well Sid refers to Sid Grauman, the man who built the theatre and was a friend to the stars.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /graumans-chinese.htm (676 words)

	Sid Grauman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Born on March 17, 1879 to Rosa and David Grauman, Sidney Patrick Grauman was soon whisked from his birthplace in Indianapolis to a small mining community in Colorado, where his father was a participant in the great gold rush of the late 1800s.
		According to biographer Charles Beardsley, author of "Hollywood's Master Showman: The Legendary Sid Grauman," one of Sid's earliest successes as an impresario was at a rather well-attended birthday party for a young girlfriend.
		Sid managed to cobble together a show that raised an impressive $1,200.
	kempsjig.tripod.com /scrapbook/id38.html (233 words)

	Mann Theatres - Grauman's Chinese
		The grand opening of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on May 18, 1927, was the most spectacular theatre opening in motion picture history.
		Grauman sold his share to Fox West Coast Theatres in 1929 and was the Managing Director of the theatre until his death in 1950.
		The Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was declared a historic-cultural landmark in 1968, and there has always been a restoration program in process to maintain the theatre's beauty.
	www.manntheatres.com /chinese (707 words)

	Wikinfo \| Grauman's Chinese Theatre
		Grauman's Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood is a world-famous movie palace that opened in 1927 and has since become one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks.
		It was built by showman Sid Grauman, who also built the nearby Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, as well as the Million Dollar Theater on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.
		Before the Chinese Theater officially opened, owner Sid Grauman gave a tour to some celebrities, during which actress Norma Talmadge unintentionally walked across a wet slab of cement.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Grauman's_Chinese_Theater (513 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [Tribute: Hollywood's CHINESE THEATRE] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Born in 1879 to Rosa and David Grauman, he was soon whisked from his birthplace in Indianapolis to a small mining community in Colorado, where his father was a participant in the great gold rush of the late 1800s.
		Grauman quickly became close friends with the heads of all the studios, as well as all the major stars and directors of the day, all of whom wanted and needed him to show their movie in the hottest showcase in America.
		Grauman valued and cherished his friends, and would always go out of his way to help them--though they weren't spared from occasionally becoming the targets of his devilish sense of humor.
	www.boxoff.com /oct97story3.html (2226 words)

	eghistory
		Grauman agreed to come to Hollywood and Toberman acquired the 6712 Hollywood Boulevard site from his old lodge buddy, Stevenson, who had left his lemon ranch for the Miramar Hotel (which he owned) in Santa Monica.
		Sid Grauman built a 30 by 73 foot stage to accommodate the elaborate prologues that proceeded film presentations.
		Grauman left the Egyptian in 1927 to reign at the new Chinese Theater across the street.
	www.americancinematheque.com /egyptian/eghistor.htm (1778 words)

	Grauman's Movie Palaces
		Sid soon realized how profitable the movie business was becoming and decided to try his luck with it.
		Sid named his first venture the Unique and developed a show that was part live-act and part film.
		In 1917, Sid Grauman and his father decided to sell the theatres they had built after the 1906 earthquake and move to Los Angeles.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/historical_hollywood/75869 (446 words)

	Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Sid Grauman originally built Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
		It was jointly owned by Sid Grauman, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Snr and Howard Schenk.
		It is said that the idea for preserving hand and footprints in the cement occurred to Sid Grauman after he accidentally stepped into wet concrete during the construction of the theatre.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-Hollywood-217194.html (666 words)

	Night of the Living Dead 3D
		Sid Haig showed up at about 11:30 pm, and this was my first time meeting Sid in person.
		Sid Haig was introduced as the ICONIC SID HAIG, and the cheering and hand-clapping were enormous at his appearance on the stage.
		There was a lot of screaming and laughing going on during the screening, parts of it were very amusing, and Sid delivers some classic lines in his style of shooting from the hip, in such a way that you could take the line seriously or see the underlying humour beneath it.
	www.zombiefans.com /NOTLD3D.htm (1324 words)

	Mann Theatres - Grauman's Chinese
		The grand opening of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on May 18, 1927, was the most spectacular theatre opening in motion picture history.
		Grauman sold his share to Fox West Coast Theatres in 1929 and was the Managing Director of the theatre until his death in 1950.
		The Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was declared a historic-cultural landmark in 1968, and there has always been a restoration program in process to maintain the theatre's beauty.
	www.manntheaters.com /chinese (707 words)

	Chinese Theater
		Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened over 70 years ago, in the 1927.
		Sid had a flair for the dramatic, and he was the one who came up with the idea of putting the stars' footprints in wet cement.
		On Jan 11, 2000, it was announced that the entire Mann's theatre chain, including GRAUMAN'S CHINESE Theatre, has been purchased by a partnership of Warner Brothers and Paramaount Studios, after the Mann's theatre chain filed for bankruptcy protection last year.
	www.rajuabju.com /latours/chinesetheater.htm (515 words)

	Broadway Movie Palaces, Los Angeles
		When Sid Grauman opened his first Los Angeles movie palace there in 1918 - The Million Dollar Theater - the Broadway theater district had arrived.
		Grauman can also bear some of the blame for the decline of the area.
		The Million Dollar Theater was built by legendary showman Sid Grauman as a film theater and not as a vaudeville venue.
	www.justabovesunset.com /id1395.html (625 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In addition, the Academy gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level; awards up to five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting annually; and operates the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California.
		The current president of the Academy is Sid Ganis.
		Presidents are elected for one year terms and may not be elected for more than four consecutive terms.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences (172 words)

	Joseph Mora, Million Dollar Theater, Los Angeles)
		The theater was initially called the "Grauman's Theater"(1) but it opened as the Million Dollar Theater with the premiere of "The Silent Man" on February 1, 1918.
		A year after opening the theater, Grauman introduced "prologues" to the bill, which were live stage presentations "designed to enhance the film that would follow."(2) These nationally acclaimed productions continued until sound movies came in during the late 1920s.
		Grauman began a tradition at the landmark Chinese Theater and left a world-famous attraction by preserving for posterity the footprints and handprints of Hollywood's greatest stars in cement.
	www.publicartinla.com /Downtown/Broadway/million_dollar_theater.html (961 words)

	TH101DE \| Further Info \| #7a
		The 7 o'clock showing of "The Dukes of Hazzard" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre was lightly attended.
		I've been to Grauman's three times now, and every time it feels like eating a ripe, succulent peach after a steady diet of sawdust.
		The great and unappreciated insight of America's old movie palaces is that, with their suffused Orientalism and vaulting spaces, they invited patrons to dream.
	homepage.mac.com /roberthuber/school/1defurth7a.html (697 words)

	Graumans (Mann's Chinese Theatre) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Grauman's Forecourt of the Stars is reserved for screen legends.
		He signed the block of cement with the inscription, "To Sid - Following in my father's footsteps", which was a tribute to his father, Tyrone Power, Sr., who was an early film actor, but better known as a great stage actor.
		Sid referred to Sid Grauman, founder of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.tyrone-power.com /graumans.html (361 words)

	San Francisco
		Moving quickly, Sid bought from an evangelist a bigtop canvas tent with pews for 3,000.
		Opening in 1912, Grauman's Imperial, with its bulb-studded facade was San Francisco's first large theatre built especially for movies.
		However within five years, Sid and his father decided to sell it all and move to Los Angeles.
	kempsjig.tripod.com /scrapbook/id19.html (267 words)

	Visit Hollywood Boulevard for Acadamey Awards excitement on Hollywoods main artery.
		Grauman's Chinese Theatre is probably the most famous movie theatre in the world and a symbol of Hollywood that many people recognize.
		It was Sid Grauman who came up with the idea of enshrining stars hand and foot prints in wet cement in the forecourt of the theatre.
		Sid sold his share of the theater in 1929 though he continued as the Managing Director until his death in 1950.
	www.inetours.com /Los_Angeles/Pages/Hollywood_Blvd.html (970 words)

	Grauman's Chinese Theater Encyclopedia Articles @ 209.197.89.145 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Grauman's Chinese Theater Encyclopedia Articles @ 209.197.89.145 ()
		Among the theatre's most famous traits are the autographed cement blocks that reside in the forecourt, which bear the signatures and markings of many of Hollywood's most revered stars and starlets.
		The theater was purchased in 1973 by Ted Mann, owner of the Mann's Theater chain and husband of actress Rhonda Fleming, who renamed it Mann's Chinese Theater.
	209.197.89.145 /encyclopedia/Grauman's_Chinese_Theater (641 words)

	Walk Like an Egyptian, or Something
		It was built by Sid Grauman, who also built Chinese Theater, three blocks west across the street, and the
		In the early twenties this Egyptian thing cost Sid eight hundred thousand dollars, and it took eighteen months to build - the architects were Meyer and Holler and it was built by the Milwaukee Building Company.
		Grauman abandoned it in 1927, putting up the Chinese Theater down the street.
	www.justabovesunset.com /2006/id175.html (637 words)

	Blucher Custom Boot Company - Virtual Exhibit \| Dickinson Research Center
		In equal partnership with Fairbanks and actress Mary Pickford, Sid Grauman opened Grauman's Chinese Theatre across the street from the Egyptian Theater with the 1927 premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings.
		Before its opening, however, Grauman gave a tour to celebrities and during this tour, Norma Talmadge unintentionally walked across a wet cement slab leaving her footprints.
		Thus was born the idea to have movie stars leave their footprints, hand prints and signatures in the wet cement of the theater's forecourt.
	www.nationalcowboymuseum.org /research/r_virt_bluc_1.html (443 words)

	Places, Earth, Hollywood Boulevard and Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The west is anchored at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the east at the world famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine.
		Grauman's Egyptian Theatre was built in 1922 for Sid Grauman's theater chain, inspired by the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb.
		Sid Grauman invented the idea of the grand movie premiere, and developed the idea of putting the stars footprints in cement, beginning in 1927 with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Norma Talmadge.
	www.placesearth.com /USA/California/LA/code/HollywodBlvd0.htm (988 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Hollywood At Your Feet (1997)
		Sid Grauman, the builder and first owner of the theater, was quite a showman—he knew a good thing when he saw it, and after attending his first picture show in 1902, he convinced the family to go into the theater ownership business.
		Grauman is credited with the invention of the Hollywood premiere—he was the first to have those huge spotlights out in front of the theater—and was famous for the live stage shows that preceded the movies at his houses.
		Her dog ran through a newly paved driveway before the cement had set, leaving little pawprints for posterity; the construction crew was furious, but Pickford related the tale to her pal Grauman, who ran with the idea.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3516 (982 words)

	JS Online:It's still showtime
		But the story goes that actress Norma Talmadge stopped by to see the construction of Sid Grauman's new picture palace on Hollywood Boulevard when she stumbled into some wet cement.
		It now costs $10 to get into Grauman's, but the lacquered red and fl Chinese dynastic splendor is largely unchanged from when Cecil B. DeMille's "The King of Kings" opened the place in 1927.
		Like Grauman's Chinese, the Village is now owned by the Mann's chain, which in turn is a partnership of Warner Bros. and Paramount.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=221337&format=print (1787 words)

	Hollywood, California. A Travelling Days Website
		MANN'S (FORMERLY GRAUMAN'S) CHINESE THEATER was opened in 1927 for the premiere of King of Kings, Cecil B. De Mille's epic film.
		The idea was put forward by the cinema's creator, Sid Grauman, possibly as a result of an accidental occurence when the original cement for the forecourt was being poured.
		The first stars to (officially) make their mark in wet cement on 17 May 1927 were Norma Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks (Sen.) and Mary Pickford.
	colinday0.tripod.com /california/hollywood1.html (380 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| Grauman's Chinese Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Grauman's Chinese Theatre is arguably the most famous movie theater in the world.
		Grauman's Chinese was where CinemaScope was introduced in Hollywood with the premier of "The Robe" in 1953, followed by most of the widescreen 20th Century-Fox epics of the period.
		Upstairs was Sid's old office, private restrooms, the usher & usherettes dressing rooms and the Cathey Lounge (the former projection booth converted to a private balconey--complete with bar!) There was also the catwalks to access the winch in the ceiling that lowered the main chandelier.
	www.cinematreasures.net /theater/1 (16022 words)

	Graumans Chinese Theater
		The TMNT Premiere was held at Grauman's on March 17, 2007.
		Sid Grauman's first Hollywood Theater was the Egyptian Theater, which opened in 1927.
		Graumans Chinese Theater continues the grand tradition of lavish movie premiers with which it started.
	www.family-vacation-getaways-at-los-angeles-theme-parks.com /Graumans-Chinese-Theater.html (1885 words)

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