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Hollywood celebration for Adolph Zukor's 80th birthday

Title superimposed over an elaborate birthday cake, "Mr. Motion Pictures, Adolph Zukor Honored on 80th Birthday" / An aerial view of Hollywood studios / Marquee of the Paladium theater with "Hollywood Salutes, Adolph Zukor" with a closeup of the marquis and "Eightieth Birthday Dinner" / A huge banquet room with hundreds of people / Zukor with wife Lottie posing in front of the cake/ Barney Balaban, President of Paramount / Producer Jesse Lasky and Y. Frank Freeman, VP of Paramount, seated at a table; Paul Douglas and wife, Jan Sterling; William Boyd seated with wife Grace / A six-foot cake is rolled next to Zukor and he slices a piece from the top; Lottie feeds him a slice / The Zukors and Lasky with Cecil B. DeMille greeting them / L-R Freeman, Zukor, LA Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and Balaban / Dorothy Lamour joins and kisses Zukor / Theater executive Charles Skouras, Zukor, and Robert J. O'Donnell, VP and General Manager of Interstate Theater Circuit / The exterior of Grauman's Chinese Theater; Rosemary Clooney, Zukor, and Skouras help Zukor as he signs wet cement, then puts his hands and footprints in the wet cement; photographers shoot photos / Clooney and people watch the ceremony / A good shot of the cement 'plaque' / Note: exact day not known
Title superimposed over an elaborate birthday cake, "Mr. Motion Pictures, Adolph Zukor Honored on 80th Birthday" / An aerial view of Hollywood studios / Marquee of the Paladium theater with "Hollywood Salutes, Adolph Zukor" with a closeup of the marquis and "Eightieth Birthday Dinner" / A huge banquet room with hundreds of people / Zukor with wife Lottie posing in front of the cake/ Barney Balaban, President of Paramount / Producer Jesse Lasky and Y. Frank Freeman, VP of Paramount, seated at a table; Paul Douglas and wife, Jan Sterling; William Boyd seated with wife Grace / A six-foot cake is rolled next to Zukor and he slices a piece from the top; Lottie feeds him a slice / The Zukors and Lasky with Cecil B. DeMille greeting them / L-R Freeman, Zukor, LA Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and Balaban / Dorothy Lamour joins and kisses Zukor / Theater executive Charles Skouras, Zukor, and Robert J. O'Donnell, VP and General Manager of Interstate Theater Circuit / The exterior of Grauman's Chinese Theater; Rosemary Clooney, Zukor, and Skouras help Zukor as he signs wet cement, then puts his hands and footprints in the wet cement; photographers shoot photos / Clooney and people watch the ceremony / A good shot of the cement 'plaque' / Note: exact day not known
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
1408110324
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1953
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:02:10:01
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005147_01_01