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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre to offer 25-cent admission to celebrate their 85th birthday

HOLLYWOOD, (KABC) – Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is planning to offer 25-cent admission on select days in honor of the theater’s 85th birthday.

On Mondays, starting April 2, admission to the theater will only cost a quarter. That’s the same as it was on opening day in 1927.

On those Mondays, Grauman’s will show classic films which premiered there over the past eight decades. Locals and visitors alike should come and celebrate!

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Grauman’s Chinese: Movie star prints’ futures not set in cement

Commemorating their movie hit “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” in the favored Hollywood way, Marilyn Monroe, left, and Jane Russell plant their hands in a slab of freshly-poured cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. (Los Angeles Times)

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre’s new owners have increased cement print ceremonies, but some new squares may not be placed in the forecourt; old ones may be removed.

By Amy Kaufman

Los Angeles Times

December 29, 2011

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is hallowed Hollywood tourist ground, the famed site where silver-screen stars such as Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra literally cemented their legends by making hand- and footprints in concrete. On a recent November morning, those movie icons were joined by three gigantic rodents: Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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 Peter O’Toole leaves handprints at Grauman’s Chinese

(starpulse.com)

Peter O’Toole was joined by family and friends as he placed his hands and feet in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Introduced as ‘Peter the great’ by Robert Osbourne on behalf of the TCM Classic Film Festival, O’Toole was flanked by his son and daughter as he quipped “it’s been many years since I had an intimate relationship with cement…and that relationship turned out to be not a happy one.” He was joined by a host of stars including Anjelica Huston and Rose McGowan.

The 78 year-old actor is best known for his roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket, and more recently for his part in the TV show The Tudors. He’s been nominated for eight Academy Awards, but has never won an Oscar, making his the record holder for the most nods without a win. He was however bestowed with an honorary Academy Award in 2003, celebrating his body of work.

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Tracing lost steps of Grauman’s first footprints

Iconic Hollywood tradition began by accident, and original concrete slabs are now in airport hangar

By Tara Wallis-Finestone and Chuck Henry

It’s an iconic event known throughout the world. For the past 85 years, only the biggest stars in Hollywood have been immortalized with their hands and feet in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

But NBCLA has discovered a critical piece of Hollywood history is missing from the theater’s famous forecourt.

The original footprints that started it all have been hidden for decades. In fact, not even the company that owns Grauman’s Theatre knew about these potentially priceless footprints.

“I was not aware that the ones we have in the forecourt are not the originals,” said Peter Dobson, CEO of Mann Theatres, the company that owns Grauman’s Chinese. “If they are missing and we just got the practice slabs in there, I’m devastated to know that.”

“I have no interest in giving them back to Grauman’s,” said Nick Olaerts, a former Hollywood developer who claims to own the slabs. “Decades ago, I had wanted to give them back to Grauman’s, a donation in the name of my children, but the theater’s owner at the time, Ted Mann, wasn’t interested in taking them back.”

Instead, Olaerts gave the slabs to his friend Larry Buchanan, an airplane mechanic who put them in storage at his airport hangar east of Los Angeles. Over the years, Buchanan and Olaerts have tried numerous times to sell the slabs, Buchanan even at one point put them on eBay.

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Robert Duvall leaves his hand and footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre forecourt

Robert Duvall celebrated his 80th birthday, and his 50 years in the movie business by becoming one of the names–and hands and feet–immortalized in the courtyard of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Duvall left his marks in the wet concrete block in front of a crowd of spectators.

Duvall, born in San Diego, is an army vet who once roomed with actor Dustin Hoffman while the two studied under legendary acting guru Sanford Meisner. His films include the original “True Grit,” “The Godfather,” “The French Connection,” “Apocalypse Now,” “A Civil Action,” and “The Apostle.”

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Cher’s Hollywood footprint ceremony typically low-key, with a busload of Chilean miners and a turquoise G-string

 (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images/Los Angeles Times)

 ( Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images/Los Angeles Times)

LOS ANGELES TIMES – In fishnets and high heels, with a dash of turquoise and an audience of unexpected heroes, Cher left her mark in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Thursday.

The singer and actress was back on Hollywood Boulevard after the Monday premiere of her latest film, “Burlesque,” which opens Nov. 24 and stars Christina Aguilera.

Cher’s mom, Georgia Holt, and son Chaz Bono were on hand as she cast her footprints and handprints in cement, then topped it all off with a healthy dose of gold glitter. Surprise guests included the 33 rescued Chilean miners, who cruised past atop a double-decker tourist bus while in town for the upcoming Thanksgiving special, “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.”

On the always interesting wardrobe front, an assistant’s tank top was called into emergency duty after the star realized the slip to her see-through dress was missing. But it was only a tank top, not a full slip, which is how we know her undies were turquoise.

Anything less just wouldn’t be Cher, would it?

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‘Twilight: Eclipse’ will reportedly have its premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood

Its still a few months away before Eclipse will open but according to Seeing-Stars.com , the Twilight Saga: Eclipse, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, will be having its premiere on June 24, 2010 at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. There is no official word yet from Summit Entertainment and this information has not listed at the theatre’s official site .

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Robert Downey, Jr. places hand and footprints at Grauman’s

Actor Robert Downey Jr. places his hands in cement during a hand and footprints ceremony in front of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on December 7, 2009. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bruno

The American premiere of the comedy

   
   Bruno

   
   Grauman’s Chinese
   6925 Hollywood Boulevard
   Hollywood, CA
   
   Thursday, June 25, 2009
   5:30 PM    Press Call Time
   6:30 PM    Celebrity Arrivals
   7:30 PM    Screening Begins
  
  

Bruno opens in theaters on Friday, July 10, 2009.

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Land of the Lost

The American premiere of the comedy adventure

LAND OF THE LOST opens in theaters on Friday, June 5, 2009.

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