In 1927, Norma Talmadge and Douglas Fairbanks stepped in a wet concrete slab outside the theater. It was the first of many ceremonies carefully planned out by Sid Grauman (the owner) and Jean Klossner (the builder). The rest (as they say) is history. The full 'Forecourt of the Stars' at Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theater holds the hand and foot imprints of the following silent (or those who got their start in silents) stars:

A

Abbott & Costello

B

John Barrymore

Wallace Beery

C

Eddie Cantor

Gary Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Joan Crawford

D

Bebe Daniels

Marion Davies

Cecil B. DeMille

Marie Dressler

F

Douglas Fairbanks

Alice Faye

G

Clark Gable

Janet Gaynor

Cary Grant

Rosa Grauman (Sid Grauman's mother)

Sid Grauman (Chinese Theater founder)

H

Jean Harlow

William S. Hart

Jean Hersholt

J

Al Jolson

 L

Mervyn LeRoy

Harold Lloyd

Myrna Loy

M

Tom Mix

Colleen Moore

N

Pola Negri

P

Louella Parsons

Mary Pickford

William Powell

R

May Robson

S

Norma Shearer

Barbara Stanwyck

Jimmy Stewart

Gloria Swanson

T

Constance Talmadge

Norma Talmadge

V

W.S. Van Dyke

W

Raoul Walsh

Y

Loretta Young

Z

Adolph Zukor

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