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Order Number	00014672
Title	Greer Garson's slab
Photographer	Morris, Ralph.
Collection ID	Ralph Morris Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	S-007-792 4x5
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Notes	This collection includes approximately 40,000 photographs by commercial photographer Ralph Morris, who worked in the Los Angeles area from 1939-1981. His advertising and industrial clients included department stores, restaurants, the automobile and petroleum industries as well as business executives. Also included is the Luckhaus Studio collection of architecture, fashion, the movie industry, sports and street scenes, images which Morris obtained in 1939.
Historical Data	Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened in May 18, 1927, after a construction period of 18 months. The principal architect of the theater was Raymond M. Kennedy of the firm Meyer and Holler. Built to resemble a giant, red Chinese pagoda, the architecture features a huge Chinese dragon across the front, two stone lion-dogs guarding the main entrance, and the silhouettes of tiny dragons up and down the sides of the copper roof. Among the theater's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the courtyard that bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day. In 1968 Grauman's Chinese Theatre was declared a historic and cultural landmark; it continues to serve the public as a first-run movie theater.
Description	Footprints and handprints of Greer Garson outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Subject	Garson, Greer,--1904-1996--Autographs. Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.). Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Grauman, Sid,1879-1950.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection