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At Grauman's

Ground broke for the historic Chinese Theatre in January 1926, with silent screen legend Norma Talmadge turning the dirt with a shovel presented by actress Anna May Wong.

The tradition of the stars leaving their impressions in the theater's forecourt began the following spring, when Sid Grauman asked his friends Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks to leave their hand and footprints in wet concrete. Pickford and Fairbanks — Hollywood royalty who held court at their Beverly Hills estate known as Pickfair — were also part owners of the new $2 million theater, along with Grauman and Joseph Schenck, then head of United Artists.

Eight days after the first "footprint" ceremony, the opulent theater opened to great fanfare with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's "The King of Kings." The day of the celebration The Times reported that "every star and personage of pretensions in this part of the country will be numbered in the audience."

In the more than eight decades since, a select number of big stars — about 200 in all — have left imprints in the forecourt.

Although the vast majority of entertainers found at Grauman’s also have been honored on the Walk of Fame, there are a number of notable exceptions. Among the starless stars: Warren Beatty, Jim Carrey, Sean Connery, Jeanne Crain, Michael Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Michael Keaton, Ali McGraw, Hayley Mills, Marcello Mastroianni, Al Pacino, Steven Segal, Peter Sellers, Jean Simmons, Denzel Washington and Oskar Werner.

— Megan Garvey, who is the editor of The Times' Hollywood Walk of Fame project

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Four thoughts about At Grauman's

Paul McCartney - all the other Beatles have individual stars of their own...how come none for Paul?
Clint Eastwood - come on - 50+ yrs in film in multi catagories. It's beyond time he had his star!

— Susan Miler
March 12, 2010 at 4:07 a.m.

Why not Robert Redford who in 1975 by the Hollywood Foreign Press, along with Sophia Loren, was voted: "the most popular film/movie star in the world?"

— Joe Houghton
March 28, 2010 at 9:04 p.m.

Hope to know something about the first lawyer of televison,fan of the perry mason show and the characther that work on the show as well.

— perry mason
May 3, 2010 at 2 p.m.

I have a photo of Steven Segal hand and foot prints at Grauman's date on concrete 1995. Guess he thought that was better than a star?

— Allen Freeman
February 28, 2011 at 9:50 a.m.

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