Norma Talmadge

Norma Talmadge's slab, dated May 18, 1927, the theater's opening day, with the message "Sid dear, my wish is for your success." The usual story credits the silent star with starting the whole tradition by stepping into wet cement by accident, though Grauman later said he was the one who stepped in it. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks had pressed their prints a few weeks earlier, so this block sits at the very start of the story either way.