Grauman's Chinese Theatre

The theater as seen in The Muppet Movie (1979).

Promotional photograph for Disney World of Muppets at Disney-MGM Studios (now known as Hollywood Studios).

In the background on Miss Piggy's Hollywood.

As seen in a deleted scene from The Muppets

From "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?"...

...and as seen in the episode "The Great Cookie Robbery" on Muppet Babies.

Baby Piggy leaving her footprints outside the theater.

Jim Henson and Kermit's signatures in front of the Theatre at Walt Disney World.

Grauman's Chinese Theatre (currently known as the TCL Chinese Theatre for sponsorship reasons), which opened in 1927, is a Hollywood landmark and the home to countless gala movie premieres. The theater is also famous for its sidewalk featuring the handprints and signatures of movie legends. In some cases, celebrities left more then prints and a signature, Groucho Marx left an imprint of his cigar, while Daniel Radcliffe left an imprint of his wand from Harry Potter films.

References

• The Electric Mayhem Bus drives by the theater in The Muppet Movie. In The Muppets Go Hollywood, Dick van Dyke catches Fozzie Bear in front of the theater with a bag of cement, planning to add his own signature in the cement next to Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers and the Ritz Brothers.

• Gonzo and Miss Piggy visit the theatre in Miss Piggy's Hollywood.

• The theater was also spoofed on Dog City as Mann's Best Friend Pekinese Theater.

• A re-creation of the theater at Disney's Hollywood Studios features in The Muppets at Walt Disney World. The Muppets leave their own version of a "signature" in the cement sidewalk. Their careless antics lead to Miss Piggy being left stuck in the hardened cement. Jim Henson's signature can be found at this location at Walt Disney World, and they are pictured in front of it for an advertisment for the park.

• The theater is shown in the Muppet Babies episode "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?", where Baby Piggy leaves her snout print in wet cement, in "The Great Cookie Robbery," where the Babies ride a train past the landmark, and in "Treasure Attic," where the Pirettes' ship rolls past the theater during their song "Pirates."

• Baby Piggy leaves her prints outside the theater in the coloring book Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States.

Scene from the Muppet Babies episode...

..."What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?"

Footprints

There are nearly 200 Hollywood celebrity handprints, footprints and autographs in the concrete of the original theatre's forecourt. Among those featured are:

Julie Andrews Fred Astaire Jack Benny Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy George Burns and his cigar Michael Caine Jim Carrey Darth Vader, C-3PO and R2-D2 Robert Downey, Jr. Clint Eastwood Henry Fonda Morgan Freeman Mel Gibson Danny Glover Whoopi Goldberg Tom Hanks Charlton Heston Bob Hope and his nose Ron Howard Samuel L. Jackson Hugh Jackman Danny Kaye Michael Keaton

Gene Kelly George Lucas James Mason Eddie Murphy Paul Newman Leonard Nimoy Roy Rogers Adam Sandler Susan Sarandon Peter Sellers William Shatner Steven Spielberg Sylvester Stallone George Takei Elizabeth Taylor John Travolta Dick Van Dyke Christopher Walken Denzel Washington Jerry Weintraub Robin Williams Bruce Willis

The replica at Disney's Hollywood Studios has a forecourt with their own unique set of celebrity signatures:

Alan Alda George Burns Carol Burnett LeVar Burton C-3PO and R2-D2 Carol Channing Chevy Chase Dick Clark Tom Cruise Geena Davis Danny DeVito Phyllis Diller Donald Duck Harrison Ford Michael J. Fox Elliott Gould Mark Hamill

Daryl Hannah Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog Pee-Wee Herman Charlton Heston Dustin Hoffman Hulk Hogan Bob Hope Michael Jackson Samuel L. Jackson Billy Joel Jerry Lewis Ray Liotta George Lucas Liza Minnelli Steve Martin Ed McMahon Bette Midler

Mary Tyler Moore Rick Moranis Mickey Mouse Leonard Nimoy Roger Rabbit Tony Randall Regis Philbin Burt Reynolds John Ritter Martin Short Sylvester Stallone Susan Sarandon Lily Tomlin John Travolta Dick Van Dyke Betty White Robin Williams

External links

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