Tag: Grauman’s Chinese Theater

February 18, 2015 /

Readers inquired about the scaled down ceremony, I thought I’d supply the visual, and yes – these statuettes were plaster: From left to right, Van Heflin, Greer Garson, James Cagney, and Theresa Wright.

June 12, 2013 /

The second time the awards were televised Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress for her performance in “Roman Holiday” – Donald O’Connor is at the podium in Los Angeles, and Audrey is presented with the award by Jean Hersholt in New York – where she was working on “Sabrina” (location work was…

May 23, 2013 /

I remember seeing an item in the Hollywood Reporter a little while ago about the lack of skilled and seasoned producers in the industry. One of the anonymous sources cited a corporate culture at fault for eviscerating art and concentrating on profit. He/she bemoaned the emphasis on product, as if…

March 18, 2013 /

Thanks Wikipedia! Production A Star Is Born was filmed from October to December 1936 with an estimated budget of $1,173,639, and premiered in Los Angeles, California on April 27, 1937 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. In New York, the film premiered at Radio City Music Hall. The scene in the film…

February 22, 2013 /

Hermes Pan choreographed everything from “Swing Time” in 1936 to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” (including the spectacle – dancers, warriors, witch doctor’s, elephants, and zebras – that was Cleopatra’s procession into Rome). Pictured above with Ginger Rogers, he was a soft-spoken gregarious man who was loved by his dancers. Recently a…

February 18, 2013 /

From inspection at the fabricators: To Oscar’s big night out:

February 17, 2013 /

See, four Oscars – I forgot to mention Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett won best screenplay as well. It’s been a harbinger of things to come for a long time… Billy Wilder wins Best Director for “The Lost Weekend” at the Golden Globes.

February 16, 2013 /

…They arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at around eleven. The lobby was straight out of the fifties, walls and floor of stone, star burst chandeliers, and the ballroom, while it still maintained a sinuous two-tiered design like that of a cruise ship, was carpeted with some dreadful dark jewel…

January 13, 2013 /

David O. Selznick at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater premiere of “A Farewell to Arms” starring his second wife, Jennifer Jones, and Rock Hudson. December, 1957. YOU DON’T OWN ME, Chapter 12. Bigger Brighter, up at 11 Pacific Time…