Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...event began, the usual klieg lights were dimmed by ten antiaircraft searchlights that threw 15-mile beams up over Grauman's Chinese Theater. Snappily uniformed attendants parked the arriving Cadillacs (many rented for the evening at $25). From the red-carpeted curb, past an awed crowd of sandwich-munching fans in bleachers around the entrance, stepped scores of stars into the arms of 14 pressagents, who whisked them to a platform for an amplified introduction. The standard response: "I hear this is one of the greatest pictures . . ." Inside were 32 special usherettes and four extra theater managers from other...