Sid Grauman

Sid Grauman

Motion Pictures Category Star

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Motion Pictures Star for Sid Grauman

Douglas Fairbanks

Original Grauman's Chinese Theater Footprints
Shown here is the actual cement slab in which Douglas Fairbanks placed his footprints.

Sid Grauman

Original Grauman's Chinese Theater Footprints
Shown here is the actual cement slab in which Sid Grauman placed his footprints.

Mary Pickford

Original Grauman's Chinese Theater Footprints
Shown here is the actual cement slab in which Mary Pickford placed her footprints.

Pickford & Fairbanks with Grauman

First Grauman's Chinese Theatre Footprints

Grauman with Pickford & Fairbanks

First Grauman's Chinese Theatre Footprints
This helped establish the tradition of setting one's footprints in cement in front of the Chinese Theater.

Pickford, Grauman, & Fairbanks

Grauman's Chinese Theatre Footprint
During the ceremony, Sid Grauman also added his prints to the cement blocks in front of his spectacular Chinese theater.

• Believe It or Not!, the idea for the prints in wet cement is believed to have come from Mary Pickford accidentally stepping on wet cement on her way to see the theater.

Cement Footprints

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lost in a Burbank air hangar for over 50 years, shown here is Sid Grauman's personal copy of Monroe's famous footprints made in 1953 at the premiere of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's classic film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.