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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Evert West was H. H. West's second cousin once removed. Myrtle West was Evert's wife. Myrtle and Evert West stand in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The footprints and handprints of celebrities are in the cement below their feet. Myrtle looks off to her right and holds her purse to her chest. Others look down at the ground around them, including a man at the right and another man holding a baby at the left. There is a poster for the movie The Big Store starring Tony Martin and the Marx Brothers in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1976. Los Angeles, California. Hollywood. July 1941. 1. Left to right, facing the camera: Myrtle West, Everett [sic] West. 2. Left to right: Mertie West, Myrtle West, Everett [sic] West. They and other visitors are looking at the writing and other signs in the cement in front of the theatre. Grauman had all the celebrities come out at different times and write in the wet cement, or put their hands or feet on it for a permanent record. John Barrymore had his face pushed down in the wet cement. 2 films.
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