gregorypecks:

Loy remembered: “Sid Grauman was a great practical joker, so Bill & I decided to have a little fun. We arrived for the ceremony wearing enormous clowns’ shoes at least a foot long. Well, I’ll never forget Sid Grauman’s face. We almost broke his heart. He took that ritual very seriously, & couldn’t bear the idea that we were deriding it. We had a terrible time convincing him that it was just a prank. When I finally made my impression in the cement, I wrote ‘To Sid - who gave me my first job’, which somewhat reassured him.”