Kirk Douglas Heads Great Gatsby Play on the Family Hour -- January 31, 2025

Sioux City Journal, 01-January-1950

Family Hour of Stars was a CBS Radio program that ran from 1948 to 1950. It featured a repertory group of stars who played in "radio adaptions of great works of literature."

On 01-January-1950, Kirk Douglas starred in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Douglas played Gatsby, so I imagine the character was more in the foreground than Gatsby is usually.

Grauman's Chinese #33 -- December 16, 2013

In July, 2012 we paid a return visit to Hollywood and Grauman's Chinese Theater.  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.

Actor Kirk Douglas left his hand and footprints in the forecourt on 01-November-1962.  He is a passionate actor whose work I have always admired.  (31)