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    the young Grauman learned a lesson which would serve him the rest of his life: that people would willingly pay handsomely for entertainment. Sid and his...
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    Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, which opened in 1922. Both were built as Exotic Revival style architecture. Built by a partnership headed by Sid Grauman over...
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  • presentation of the moving image in all its forms. The American Cinematheque's Sid Grauman Award annually honors "an individual who has made a significant contribution...
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    (November 6, 1939) Linda Darnell (March 18, 1940) Rosa Grauman (mother of theatre owner, Sid) and George Raft (March 25, 1940) John Barrymore (September...
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  • theorist Sid Grauman (1879–1950), American showman Grauman's Chinese Theatre, a movie theater in Hollywood, named after Sid Grauman Grauman's Egyptian...
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    entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese...
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  • Walter E. Grauman (March 17, 1922 – March 20, 2015) was an American director of stage shows, films and television shows. Grauman was born in Milwaukee...
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    overseeing Friday through Sunday. The Egyptian was built by showman Sid Grauman and real estate developer Charles E. Toberman, who subsequently built...
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  • Jewish Standard. "Sid Grauman Dies; Cinema Showman". Youngstown Vindicator. Mar 6, 1950. Retrieved 2020-09-11. "Famed Showman Sid Grauman Dies". The Pittsburgh...
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  • union footballer Sid Goodwin (1914–1980), Australian rugby league footballer Sid Gordon (1917–1975), American baseball player Sid Grauman (1879–1950), American...
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    Torch For Women At American Cinematheque Tribute; Katzenberg Receives Sid Grauman Award". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 7,...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    embarked on a solo career as a singing ukulele player. Master showman Sid Grauman proclaimed him "King of the Ukulele" and the nickname stuck. In 1920...
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    Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of a radio adaptation of A Star Is Born, Sid Grauman related another version of how he got the idea to put hand and foot prints...
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    was Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. For several years, Hollywood developer Charles E. Toberman attempted to convince Sid Grauman to...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    biographer Gerald Clarke, Ford's son Peter, singer Mel Tormé, and her husband Sid Luft wrote about the affair in their respective biographies. The relationship...
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    January 30, 2006, Jackson was honored with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre; he is the seventh African American and 191st actor to...
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    Holler was the design-build firm that had already built Grauman's Egyptian Theatre for Sid Grauman. The ground breaking for the Chinese took place on January...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    group that included Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Sid Grauman. It cost $2.5 million ($43.9 million today) to complete and opened on...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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    Sid Grauman, Norma Shearer, and Thalberg, 1932...
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    / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille...
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