A flat rate is charged after 10pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Meters are available along Hollywood Blvd. Parking enforcement is strong and tickets will be given. Best and worst time go to the TCL Chinese Theatre Nights and weekends are the most crowded, although as a top tourist attraction, there are always people out front looking at the hand and footprints. Premieres and special events will make the theatre inaccessible, although you might get a peek at the red carpet.
Call for availability and pricing. Walking around the hand and footprints is free. The initial policy was two shows daily with reserved seats: a matinee and evening show both preceded by an elaborate prologue. The policy lasted on and off until when the prologues were abandoned and the Chinese went to a four shows a day policy. And lots of double features.
The program's dedication page. Thanks to Christopher Crouch for these program views appearing on a post on his blog Cinelog. This opening show ran for months on a twice-a-day reserved seat policy. It's from the collection of Cezar Del Valle. Motion Picture News reviewed it in their August 11 issue and was not enthusiastic about either the film or the Grauman prologue. Another early talkie premiere was Warner's "Noah's Arc" on November 1, It got 5 pages of ads and photos in the November 3 issue of Motion Picture News.
An ad for the theatre and Sid in the Film Daily Yearbook. An ad for the March 24, premiere of "King Kong" at the Chinese. Thanks to Eitan Alexander for the screenshot. It's a tale of an unhappy film buff on a killing spree.
Thanks to Colonel Mortimer for the screenshot and Jonathan Raines for researching the film. Theatres in Movies post for a crowd shot at the Chinese as well as views of five Westwood theatres from the film.
He did the shoot downtown at 3rd and Spring. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Demille's film "King of Kings" played for five months at Grauman's Chinese, and was viewed by more than , people. Grauman had multiple financial partners in this enterprise, including the movie stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Grauman also sold bonds to finance some of the cost of construction.
The Stars Pickford and Fairbanks diversified their salaries into various investments, including the foundation of the United Artists studio in with director D. Griffiths and comedian Charlie Chaplin.
The pair also invested in a chain of movie theatres under the "United Artists" name in the US and abroad beginning in Grauman sold his interest in the theatre in , but, save for periods of brief retirement in and , continued to serve as its Managing Director until his death in According to the theatre's web site in "Authorization had to be obtained from the U. Poet and film director Moon Quon came from China, and under his supervision Chinese artisans created many pieces of statuary in the work area that eventually became the Forecourt of the Stars.
Most of these pieces still decorate the ornate interior of the theatre today. Its forecourt, where movie star hand and footprints are preserved in cement, is a top tourist attraction. Theatre historian David Naylor, has credited Meyer and Holler employee, Raymond Kennedy, as the building's "chief designer.
In , Grauman's was sold by "an an ownership group that included Warner Bros. See Deadline Hollywood. Grauman's Chinese, the last of Sid Grauman's three movie palaces in Los Angeles, CA, contained a respectable 2, seats, about half the number of the largest movie theatres of the era.
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