{"id":27881,"date":"2023-11-02T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=27881"},"modified":"2023-11-03T06:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:55:58","slug":"searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-graumans-chinese-theatre-for-the-premiere-of-giant-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-october-17-1956-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2023\/11\/02\/searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-graumans-chinese-theatre-for-the-premiere-of-giant-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-october-17-1956-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchlights illuminate the night sky over Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre for the premiere of \u201cGiant\u201d, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, October 17, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27882\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2023\/11\/02\/searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-graumans-chinese-theatre-for-the-premiere-of-giant-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-october-17-1956-2\/searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-graumans-chinese-theatre-for-the-premiere-of-giant-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-october-17-1956\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?fit=1234%2C1642&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1234,1642\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1697985862","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Searchlights illuminate the night sky over Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre for the premiere of \u201cGiant\u201d, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, October 17, 1956\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?fit=640%2C851&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27882\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?resize=640%2C852&ssl=1\" alt=\"Searchlights illuminate the night sky over Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre for the premiere of \u201cGiant\u201d, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, October 17, 1956\" width=\"640\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?w=1234&ssl=1 1234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?resize=770%2C1024&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?resize=768%2C1022&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-Graumans-Chinese-Theatre-for-the-premiere-of-Giant-Hollywood-Blvd-Hollywood-October-17-1956.jpg?resize=1154%2C1536&ssl=1 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This is a photo I took of a photo I saw during a recent visit to the Academy Museum. It was taken during the premiere of \u201cGiant\u201d that took place at Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre on October 17, 1956. I love the dramatic way those searchlights were lined up behind the bleachers where movie fans had gathered to see the parade of stars attending the big event ahead of an impressive 10-week run. And what a parade of stars it was. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graumanschinese.org\/1956.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GraumansChinese.org<\/strong><\/a> and scroll down to October and check the loooong list of Hollywood A-listers who were there that night.<\/p>\n<p>Torr L said: \u201c<em>Giant<\/em> was a huge box-office success. The film earned $35 million in ticket sales during its original studio release in 1956, a record for a Warner Brothers film until that time. This record was not surpassed until the Warner film Superman in the late 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a photo I took of a photo I saw during a recent visit to the Academy Museum. It was taken during the premiere of \u201cGiant\u201d that took place at Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre on October 17, 1956. I love … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2023\/11\/02\/searchlights-illuminate-the-night-sky-over-graumans-chinese-theatre-for-the-premiere-of-giant-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-october-17-1956-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,8,15,104,31,156],"class_list":["post-27881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-graumans-chinese-theater","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-blvd","tag-movie-premiere","tag-theaters","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-7fH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27885,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27881\/revisions\/27885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}