Hollywood history and culture

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 145. Chapters: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Venice, Los Angeles, Alan Smithee, Hollywood marriage, Gene Tierney, Hollywood Sign, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Black Dahlia, RKO Forty Acres, Hollywood Studio Club, Warner Bros. Animation, Edendale, Los Angeles, Harold Lloyd Estate, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, Hollywood Bowl, Sunset Tower, Joe E. Brown, Hollywood accounting, Red Channels, Wattles Mansion, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Gurdon Wattles, Storer House (Los Angeles, California), Centaur Film Company, Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial, The Groundlings, List of handprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Johnny Grant, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Palladium, Selznick International Pictures, Georgette Bauerdorf, Hollywood Boulevard, Louella Parsons, A History of Horror, Brown Derby, Harvey Henderson Wilcox, Cherokee Studios, Pantages Theatre, The Magic Castle, Jardinette Apartments, Cheiro, Hollywood Canteen, Roosevelt Hotel, Atuk, El Capitan Theatre, Henry Willson, Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Million Dollar Theater, Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, C.E. Toberman Estate, Hollywood Pacific Theatre, Early film racism in the United States, Hollywood Black Friday, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hollywood Babylon, The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up, Earl Carroll Theatre, Mutual Film, Hollywood Tower, Montecito Apartments, Angelyne, Carthay Circle Theatre, Gene Marshall, Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party, Nestor Studios, Rona Barrett, Providencia Ranch, Louis B. Mayer, King of Hollywood, Rancho La Brea, Westmore family, Hollywood Christmas Parade, Sunset Gower Studios, Hollywood Hotel, Pioneer Pictures, Poverty Row, Cinerama Dome, Pickfair, Palomino Club, List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames, Rancho Los Feliz, Formosa Cafe, Shirley Thomas, Avalon Hollywood, John Ford Stock Company, Christie Film Company, Culver Hotel, Mocambo, Fictional characters on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Chasen's, Garden of Allah, Oregon Film Museum, Falcon Lair, Hollywood Wax Museum, Knickerbocker Hotel, The Hillview, Hollywood novel, Jimmie Fidler, Greater Hollywood, Los Angeles, Trocadero, History vs. Hollywood, Ciro's, Hollywood High Organ Opus 481, The Ravenswood, Lasky-DeMille Barn, List of Hollywood novels, Mayor of Hollywood, The Deer Park, Gower Gulch, Hollywood & Western Building, Sierra Towers, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Musso & Frank Grill, Hollywood Heritage Museum, Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, NBC Orange Network, That's Black Entertainment, Daeida Wilcox Beveridge, Grove Christmas Tree, Vine Street, Hollywood Victory Committee, Hollywood Film Festival, Hollywood East Film Festival, Irene Diamond, Hollywood Left. Excerpt: The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a series of sidewalks along both sides of a 15-block segment of Hollywood Boulevard and a 3-block segment of Vine Street in Hollywood, California that serves as a permanent public monument to achievement in the entertainment industry. More than 2,500 5-pointed terrazzo and brass stars are embedded at 6-foot (1.8 m) intervals over a combined 1.7 miles (2.7 km). The stars recognize an eclectic mix of actors, musicians, directors, producers, musical and theatrical groups, fictional characters, and others for their entertainment contributions. The Walk is administrated by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trus...