List of Grauman's Chinese Theatre handprint ceremonies facts for kids
This is a list of handprint ceremonies for the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California (originally "Grauman's Chinese Theatre"). Footprints and signatures are also included, and in some cases imprints of other objects:
- Sonja Henie imprinted her ice skates.
- John Barrymore imprinted the side of his face, a nod to his nickname "The Great Profile".
- Roy Rogers, in addition to having his horse Trigger's hoofprints in his square, imprinted his revolver.
- Mel Brooks wore a prosthetic sixth finger.
- Eleanor Powell imprinted a pair of her tap shoes.
1920s
Mary Pickford's impressions. April 1927.
Joan Crawford's impressions. September 1929.
- Norma Talmadge (post dated for the opening day May 18, 1927)
- Mary Pickford (April 30, 1927)
- Douglas Fairbanks (April 30, 1927)
- Norma Shearer (August 1, 1927)
- Harold Lloyd (November 21, 1927)
- William S. Hart (November 28, 1927)
- Tom Mix and Tony the Wonder Horse (December 12, 1927)
- Colleen Moore (December 19, 1927)
- Gloria Swanson (circa 1927)
- Constance Talmadge (circa 1927)
- Pola Negri (April 2, 1928)
- Bebe Daniels (May 11, 1929)
- Marion Davies (May 13, 1929)
- Janet Gaynor (May 29, 1929)
- Joan Crawford (September 14, 1929)
1930s
Many older entries contain personal messages to Sid Grauman, such as Myrna Loy's 1936 contribution. Her first job was as a dancer at the theater in the 1920s.
The Marx Brothers, Chico, Groucho, Harpo, and Zeppo. February 1933.
Clark Gable's hand and footprints. January 1937.
- Ann Harding (August 30, 1930)
- Raoul Walsh (November 14, 1930)
- Wallace Beery (January 31, 1931)
- Marie Dressler (January 31, 1931)
- Jackie Cooper (December 12, 1931)
- Eddie Cantor (March 9, 1932)
- Diana Wynyard (January 26, 1933)
- The Marx Brothers (February 17, 1933)
- Jean Harlow (September 25 and September 29, 1933)
- Maurice Chevalier (December 4, 1934)
- Jeanette MacDonald (December 4, 1934)
- Shirley Temple (March 14, 1935)
- Joe E. Brown (March 5, 1936)
- Al Jolson (March 12, 1936)
- Freddie Bartholomew (April 4, 1936)
- Bing Crosby (April 8, 1936)
- Victor McLaglen (May 25, 1936)
- William Powell and Myrna Loy (October 20, 1936)
- Clark Gable and W. S. Van Dyke (January 20, 1937)
- Dick Powell and Joan Blondell (February 10, 1937)
- Fredric March (April 21, 1937)
- May Robson (April 22, 1937)
- Tyrone Power and Loretta Young (May 31, 1937)
- Sonja Henie (June 28, 1937)
- The Ritz Brothers (September 22, 1937)
- Eleanor Powell (December 23, 1937)
- Don Ameche (January 27, 1938)
- Fred Astaire (February 4, 1938)
- Deanna Durbin (February 7, 1938)
- Alice Faye and Tony Martin (March 20, 1938)
- Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (July 20, 1938)
- Jean Hersholt (October 11, 1938)
- Mickey Rooney (October 18, 1938)
- Nelson Eddy (December 28, 1938)
- Ginger Rogers (September 5, 1939)
- Judy Garland (October 10, 1939)
- Jane Withers (November 6, 1939)
1940s
Carmen Miranda's imprint ceremony, March 24, 1941.
Red Skelton's imprint ceremony, June 18, 1942. From left: Sid Grauman, Skelton, Edna Skelton. Skelton also imprinted his "Junior" character's shoes.
Cecil B. DeMille's square. August 1941.
- Linda Darnell (March 18, 1940)
- Rosa Grauman (mother of theatre owner, Sid) and George Raft (March 25, 1940)
- John Barrymore (September 5, 1940)
- Jack Benny (January 13, 1941)
- Carmen Miranda (March 24, 1941)
- Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor (June 11, 1941)
- Rudy Vallée (July 21, 1941)
- Cecil B. DeMille (August 7, 1941)
- The Family of Judge James K. Hardy (August 15, 1941)
- Abbott and Costello (December 8, 1941)
- Edward Arnold (January 6, 1942)
- Joan Fontaine (May 26, 1942)
- Red Skelton (June 18, 1942)
- Greer Garson and Mrs. Miniver (July 23, 1942)
- Edward G. Robinson (July 24, 1942)
- Henry Fonda, Rita Hayworth, Charles Boyer (July 24, 1942)
- Charles Laughton (July 24, 1942)
- Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour (February 5, 1943)
- Betty Grable (February 15, 1943)
- Monty Woolley (May 28, 1943)
- Gary Cooper (August 13, 1943)
- Esther Williams and Private Joe Brain (August 1, 1944)
- Gene Tierney (January 24, 1945)
- Jack Oakie (February 21, 1945)
- Jimmy Durante (October 31, 1945)
- Sid Grauman (January 24, 1946)
- Irene Dunne (July 8, 1946)
- Rex Harrison (July 8, 1946)
- Margaret O'Brien (August 15, 1946)
- Humphrey Bogart (August 21, 1946)
- Louella Parsons (September 30, 1946)
- Ray Milland (April 17, 1947)
- Lauritz Melchior (November 17, 1947)
- James Stewart (February 13, 1948)
- Van Johnson (March 25, 1948)
- George Jessel (March 1, 1949)
- Roy Rogers and Trigger (April 21, 1949)
- Richard Widmark and Charles Nelson (editor) (April 24, 1949)
- Jeanne Crain (October 17, 1949)
- Jean Hersholt (October 20, 1949)
- Anne Baxter and Gregory Peck (December 15, 1949)
- Gene Autry and Champion (December 23, 1949)
1950s
- John Wayne (January 25, 1950)
- Lana Turner (May 24, 1950)
- Bette Davis (November 6, 1950)
- William Lundigan (December 29, 1950)
- Cary Grant (July 16, 1951)
- Susan Hayward (August 10, 1951)
- Hildegard Knef (as Hildegarde Neff) (December 13, 1951)
- Oskar Werner (December 13, 1951)
- Jane Wyman (September 17, 1952)
- Ava Gardner (October 21, 1952)
- Clifton Webb (December 7, 1952)
- Olivia de Havilland (December 9, 1952)
- Adolph Zukor (January 5, 1953)
- Ezio Pinza (January 26, 1953)
- Donald O'Connor and mother Effie (February 25, 1953)
- Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (June 26, 1953)
- Jean Simmons (September 24, 1953)
- Danny Thomas (January 26, 1954)
- James Mason (March 30, 1954)
- Alan Ladd (May 12, 1954)
- Edmund Purdom (August 30, 1954)
- Van Heflin (October 8, 1954)
- George Murphy (November 8, 1954)
- Yul Brynner (March 22, 1956)
- Deborah Kerr (March 22, 1956)
- Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and George Stevens (September 26, 1956)
- Elmer C. Rhoden and Richard Bakalyan (September 16, 1958)
- Rosalind Russell (February 19, 1959)
1960s
- Cantinflas (December 28, 1960)
- Doris Day (January 19, 1961)
- Natalie Wood (December 5, 1961)
- Charlton Heston (January 18, 1962)
- Sophia Loren (July 26, 1962)
- Kirk Douglas (November 1, 1962)
- Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (May 25, 1963)
- Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (June 29, 1963)
- Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1963)
- Hayley Mills (February 22, 1964)
- Dean Martin (March 21, 1964)
- Peter Sellers (June 3, 1964)
- Debbie Reynolds (January 14, 1965)
- Marcello Mastroianni (February 8, 1965)
- Frank Sinatra (July 20, 1965)
- Julie Andrews (March 26, 1966)
- Dick Van Dyke (June 25, 1966)
- Steve McQueen (March 21, 1967)
- Sidney Poitier (June 23, 1967)
- Anthony Quinn (December 21, 1968)
- Danny Kaye (October 19, 1969)
- Gene Kelly (November 24, 1969)
1970s
- Ali MacGraw (December 14, 1972)
- Jack Nicholson (June 17, 1974)
- KISS (February 20, 1976)
- Tom Bradley and Ted Mann (May 18, 1977)
- Herbie the Love Bug (July 11, 1977), leaving an imprint of tire treads
- Darth Vader (August 3, 1977)
- C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) (August 3, 1977)
- George Burns (November 25, 1979)
1980s
- John Travolta (June 2, 1980)
- Burt Reynolds (September 24, 1981)
- Rhonda Fleming (September 28, 1981)
- Sylvester Stallone (June 29, 1983)
- George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (May 16, 1984)
- Donald Duck and Clarence Nash (May 21, 1984)
- Clint Eastwood (August 21, 1984)
- Mickey Rooney (February 18, 1986)
- Eddie Murphy and Hollywood's 100th Anniversary (May 14, 1987)
1990s
- Cast of Star Trek (December 5, 1991)
- Harrison Ford (June 4, 1992)
- Michael Keaton (June 15, 1992)
- Tom Cruise (June 28, 1993)
- Mel Gibson (August 23, 1993)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (July 15, 1994)
- Meryl Streep (September 25, 1994)
- Whoopi Goldberg (February 2, 1995)
- Bruce Willis (May 18, 1995)
- Steven Seagal (July 10, 1995)
- Jim Carrey (November 1, 1995)
- Jackie Chan (January 5, 1997)
- Johnny Grant (May 13, 1997)
- Robert Zemeckis (July 8, 1997)
- Michael Douglas (September 10, 1997)
- Al Pacino (October 16, 1997)
- Denzel Washington (January 15, 1998)
- Walter Matthau (April 2, 1998)
- Warren Beatty (May 21, 1998)
- Tom Hanks (July 23, 1998)
- Jodie Foster (September 5, 1998)
- Danny Glover (July 7, 1998)
- Robin Williams (December 22, 1998)
- Susan Sarandon (January 11, 1999)
- William F. "Bill" Hertz (March 18, 1999)
- Ron Howard (March 23, 1999)
- Sean Connery (April 13, 1999)
- Richard Gere (July 26, 1999)
- Terry Semel and Bob Daly (September 30, 1999)
2000s
- Anthony Hopkins (January 11, 2001)
- Nicolas Cage (August 14, 2001)
- Martin Lawrence (November 19, 2001)
- John Woo (May 21, 2002)
- Morgan Freeman (June 5, 2002)
- Christopher Walken (October 8, 2004)
- Jack Valenti (December 6, 2004)
- Sherry Lansing (February 16, 2005)
- Adam Sandler (May 17, 2005)
- Johnny Depp (September 16, 2005)
- Samuel L. Jackson (January 30, 2006)
- Kevin Costner (September 6, 2006)
- Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Jerry Weintraub (June 5, 2007)
- Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (July 9, 2007)
- Johnny Grant (July 9, 2007)
- Will Smith (December 10, 2007)
- Michael Caine (July 11, 2008)
- Hugh Jackman (April 21, 2009)
- Robert Downey, Jr. (December 7, 2009)
2010s
- Jerry Bruckheimer (May 17, 2010)
- Cher (November 18, 2010)
- Robert Duvall (January 5, 2011)
- Helen Mirren (March 28, 2011)
- Peter O’Toole (April 30, 2011)
- Jennifer Aniston (July 7, 2011)
- Mickey Rourke (October 31, 2011)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks (November 1, 2011)
- Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner (November 3, 2011)
- Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris (November 15, 2011)
- David Guetta (December 3, 2011)
- The Smurfs (December 13, 2011)
- Michael Jackson (January 26, 2012)
- Kim Novak (April 14, 2012)
- Lee Byung-Hun and Ahn Sung-ki (June 23, 2012)
- Christopher Nolan (July 7, 2012)
- Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, and LA Reid (September 11, 2012)
- Robert De Niro (February 4, 2013)
- Jane Fonda (April 27, 2013)
- Jackie Chan (June 6, 2013)
- Jerry Maren (September 18, 2013)
- Sandra Bullock (September 25, 2013)
- Afrojack (October 5, 2013)
- Feng Xiaogang (November 1, 2013)
- Emma Thompson (November 7, 2013)
- John Goodman (November 14, 2013)
- Ben Stiller (December 3, 2013)
- Jerry Lewis (April 12, 2014)
- Melissa McCarthy (July 2, 2014)
- Mel Brooks (September 8, 2014)
- Peter Cullen (September 30, 2014)
- Gena Rowlands (December 5, 2014)
- Ethan Hawke (January 8, 2015)
- Vince Vaughn (March 4, 2015)
- Christopher Plummer (March 27, 2015)
- Vin Diesel (April 1, 2015)
- Dwayne Johnson (May 19, 2015)
- Justin Lin, Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming (June 3, 2015)
- Katy Perry and Jeremy Scott (September 8, 2015)
- Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth (October 31, 2015)
- Quentin Tarantino (January 5, 2016)
- Francis Ford Coppola (April 29, 2016)
- Roland Emmerich (June 20, 2016)
- Tim Burton (September 8, 2016)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (September 29, 2016)
- Jessica Chastain (November 3, 2016)
- Donnie Yen (November 30, 2016)
- Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling (December 7, 2016)
- Jeff Bridges (January 6, 2017)
- Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner (April 7, 2017)
- Ridley Scott (May 17, 2017)
- Michael Bay (May 23, 2017)
- Stan Lee (July 18, 2017)
- Kenneth Branagh (October 26, 2017)
- Mariah Carey (November 1, 2017)
- Lionel Richie (March 7, 2018)
- Cicely Tyson (April 27, 2018)
- Carrie Fisher (May 24, 2018)
- Quincy Jones (November 27, 2018)
- Pitbull (December 14, 2018)
- Sam Elliott (January 7, 2019)
- Billy Crystal (April 12, 2019)
- Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Kevin Feige (April 23, 2019)
- Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch (May 1, 2019)
- Keanu Reeves (May 14, 2019)
- Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (October 14, 2019)
- Kevin Hart (December 10, 2019)
2020s
- Patrick Stewart (January 13, 2020)
- Michael Madsen (November 17, 2020)
Without handprints
In recent years, there have been a number of ceremonies for celebrities, famous animals, and fictional characters, after which the handprints have not been placed in the forecourt. These include:
- Kobe Bryant (February 19, 2011)
- Uggie (June 25, 2012)
- Britney Spears, Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato and L.A. Reid (September 12, 2012)
- Leo the Lion (January 22, 2014)
- Optimus Prime (September 30, 2014)
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