From the always-interesting DaveLandWeb comes this photo taken when “Giant” was playing Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. It’s interesting that the name of the movie’s director, George Stevens, is as big as Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, and that the name of the author whose novel the movie was based on, Edna Ferber, is almost as big. The movie had a 10-week run there: October 18 to December 24, 1956. From the white metal Christmas tree we can see attached to the pole at the right, I’m guessing this photo was taken near the end, before “Anastasia” came in for an 8-week run.
Look at all that glorious open space to the east of the theatre!
That’s where the Hollywood Hotel had stood until not long before this photo was taken.
Why has the ticket booth gravitated out to the sidewalk here?
It was there for quite a while.