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| Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Located at 7000 Hollywood Blvd., opened May 15, 1927. Host of the 1st Annual Academy Awards May 16, 1929 Blossom Room Hollywood Roosevelt. Hosts Academy President Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille. Attendance for the first awards ceremony was 250 and tickets were $10.00. |
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| Graumans Chinese Theater Located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. Opened 1926. Host of 16th Annual Academy Awards March 2, 1944 - 17th Annual Academy Awards March 15, 1945 - 18th Annual Academy Awards March 7, 1946. The first radio Broadcast took place from this venue during the 16th annual awards. |
| Photographed by Carol M. Highsmith, who has donated her collection to the Library of Congress, and placed the images in the public domain. |
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| (Images from "Marxorama" and "Groucho Slept here" |
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| With 270 guests dining on broiled chicken, the first Academy Awards were given out in the Blossom Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929.
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| Ambassador Hotel was Located at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard. Opened January 1, 1921. This wonderful hotel hosted the 2nd, 12th, and 15th Annual Academy Awards in its famed Cocoanut Grove. The Ambassador also hosted the 3rd, 5th and 6th in the Fiesta Room. The Ambassador was also infamously known as it was the location of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Sadly this priceless landmark closed in 1989. The Ambassador was demolished February 2006 despite conservation efforts. |
| Great Moments at the Ambassador Hattie McDaniel first black performer to win an Academy Award. Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night of 1940: "Hattie McDaniel earned that gold "Oscar", by her fine performance of "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor. She put her heart right into those words and expressed not only for herself, but for every member of her race, the gratitude she felt that she had been given recognition by the Academy. Fay Bainter, with voice trembling, introduced Hattie and spoke of the happiness she felt in bestowing upon the beaming actress Hollywood's greatest honor. The "Oscar" that Hattie won was placed in the keeping of Howard University in Washington, D.C. The statue disappeared during racial unrest on the Washington, D.C., campus in the late 1960s |
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| Did You Know? Jules Roth, managed the "Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery" where so many of her fellow stars and friends were interred. Because of her race, he refused to allow the winner of Hollywood's highest award to be buried on the property. For Hattie, even death discriminated. During the 1960's event furious, frustrated black Americans are rumored to have heaved the Oscar into the Potomac River in effigy of racial stereotyping. Like Hattie herself, it too is buried in the wrong place, a victim of misunderstanding and hate. Excerpt from Tom Gregory "Oscar Time for Hattie McDaniel" August 13, 2007 |
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| Academy Awards Show Venues 1929 to Present |
| Cocoanut Grove |
| Graumans Chinese Theater - Hollywood Roosevelt - Ambassador Hotel |
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