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.
John Wayne left his hand and cowboy boot prints in the forecourt of
Grauman's
Chinese on 25-January-1950. Wayne had a long career and led film stars in yearly box office returns for many years. I enjoy movies from every period of his career, from
The Big Trail to the Mascot serials to the Lone Star westerns to the Three Mesquiteers to
Stagecoach to the John Ford cavalry films to the war films right up to
The Shootist.
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