.pattmlatimes invites you to 'take this little travelogue to Oscars venues and scenes over the decades; no tourist bus required.'
The most famous statue in the world is probably, maybe the Oscar. Many have been stolen, and several have been sold.At the Ambassador again, this time the Fiesta Room, where the guest of honor was Will Hays, a scarecrow of a man, the former postmaster general and head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. On the heels of scandalous antics by Hollywood’s newly rich and ill-behaved, and to fend off outside regulation, Hays was brought in as the morals cop.
The Cocoanut Grove nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel. The person who in 1935 mailed this postcard, from Patt Morrison’s collection, told a correspondent that she had recently performed there.Back to the Cocoanut Grove, for the next-to-last time at the Ambassador. Eventually, for all of its fabled history — the Oscars ceremonies; the short, illustrious stay of the Soviets’ top commie, Nikita Khrushchev, in the royal suite; and the assassination of Sen. Robert F.
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