I love the composition of this photo with the silhouette of the guy in shirt sleeves in the foreground as he’s watching the searchlights sweeping a Hollywood premiere and filling Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with a blaze of glorious light. But without any specific telltale hints, like posters or cars, I couldn’t tell when this was from. So I turned to Kurt Wahlner who runs the highly informative graumanschinese.org. Through an impressive process of elimination, he deduced that this photo was taken on the night of the premiere of RKO’s “Show Business” on May 10, 1944, which was RKO’s only wartime premiere at Grauman’s. (I never knew this but the vast majority of premieres there was for MGM and Fox.)