Where Movie-Star Handprints Pave A Hollywood Courtyard
Cement handprints of Hollywood stars pave the forecourt of a 1927 pagoda-style movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard.
🎬 The forecourt walk
The TCL Chinese Theatre is a 1927 movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard, built as Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the shape of a jade-green pagoda with dragon-crowned red columns and stone guardian lions at the doors. Its forecourt is where film stars press their hands and feet into wet cement, a ritual from the theatre's opening that now fills nearly two hundred slabs.
Inside, the main auditorium screens films on one of the largest IMAX screens in the world, under a carved ceiling and a sunburst chandelier. The theatre still hosts red-carpet premieres, and guided tours walk visitors through the house between showings. It anchors this stretch of the Walk of Fame, steps from the Dolby Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt.
