Hollywood Walk of Fame

===Selection and construction===
By March 1956, the final design and coral-and-charcoal color scheme had been approved. Between the spring of 1956 and the fall of 1957, 1,558 honorees were selected by committees representing the four major branches of the entertainment industry at that time: motion pictures, television, audio recording, and radio. The committees met at the [[Brown Derby]] restaurant,<ref name="ap2006">{{cite news|url=https://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/preview/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html<!--was http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html-->|title=Price of Fame in Hollywood? $15,000|author=Cohen, Sandy|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|date=June 30, 2006|access-date=June 27, 2009|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131213034320/http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/preview/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html|archivedate=2013-12-13}}</ref> and they included such prominent names as [[Cecil B. DeMille]], [[Samuel Goldwyn]], [[Jesse L. Lasky]], [[Walt Disney]], [[Hal Roach]], [[Mack Sennett]], and [[Walter Lantz]].<ref name="historyof"/>

{{stack|[[File:Hwof joanne woodward.jpg|thumb|[[Joanne Woodward]]'s star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.]]}}
A requirement stipulated by the original audio recording committee (and later rescinded) specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement. As a result, the [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]] was formed to create a separate award for the music industry, leading to the first [[Grammy Award]]s in 1959.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aSBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3612,4838071&dq=paul+weston+grammy&hl=en|title=Bronze Stars Begot Grammy|date=1976-02-22|page=13|newspaper=The Robesonian|location=Lumberton, N.C.|access-date=2011-05-23}}</ref>

Construction of the Walk began in 1958, but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first lawsuit was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1.25|1958|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting and trees. In October 1959, the assessment was ruled legal.<ref name="historyof"/> The second lawsuit, filed by [[Charles Chaplin Jr.]], sought damages for the exclusion of his father, whose nomination had been withdrawn due to pressure from multiple quarters (see [[#Controversial additions|Controversial additions]]). Chaplin's suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/167734333.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2011,%201960&author=&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times&edition=&startpage=&desc=Judge%20Refuses%20Chaplin%20Walk%20of%20Fame%20Request|title=Judge Refuses Chaplin Walk of Fame Request|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=1960-08-11|page=B2|access-date=2010-06-11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107162411/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/167734333.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2011,%201960&author=&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times&edition=&startpage=&desc=Judge%20Refuses%20Chaplin%20Walk%20of%20Fame%20Request|archivedate=2014-11-07}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="LATimesWhy">{{cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/about/#no-love|title=Why doesn't Clint Eastwood have a star?|access-date=May 20, 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

While [[Joanne Woodward]] is often singled out as the first person to receive a star on the Walk of Fame—possibly because she was the first to be photographed with it<ref name="Q&A">{{cite news|last=Thermos|first=Wendy|date=July 22, 2005|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/22/local/me-explainer22|title=Sidewalk Shrine to Celebrities Twinkles With Stars|page=2|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 31, 2010}}</ref>—the original stars were installed as a continuous project, with no individual ceremonies. Woodward's name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558 and inscribed on eight prototype stars that were built while litigation was holding up permanent construction.<ref>{{cite news|last=Conklin|first=Ellis E.|date=October 30, 1986|title=Hollywood's Walk On The Mild Side Of Fame|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|agency=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-30/features/8603210766_1_hollywood-chamber-gower-street-star-struck-admirers|access-date=October 21, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206131339/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-30/features/8603210766_1_hollywood-chamber-gower-street-star-struck-admirers/2|archive-date=December 6, 2013}}<!--full text--> (, )</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF5107276D88A24&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=October 26, 1986|newspaper=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]] (CA)|title=Walk of Whimsy|publisher=Knight-Ridder, Mediastream}} {{subscription required}} ([https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=revered%2Bhollywood%2Bwalk%2Bof%2Bfame+drawn+from+a+hat+&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&ned=us&btnG=Search+Archives text verif.])</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Ellis|last=Conklin|agency=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|title=Top Stars Missing on Hall of Fame|newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|date=October 30, 1986|page=D17|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jsAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1318,5172428&dq=star+grant+said+they+did+and+on+feb&hl=en}} (Google news archive)</ref> The eight prototypes were installed temporarily on the northwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] in August 1958 to generate publicity and to demonstrate how the Walk would eventually look.<ref name="historyof"/> The other seven names were [[Olive Borden]], [[Ronald Colman]], [[Louise Fazenda]], [[Preston Foster]], [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Edward Sedgwick]], and [[Ernest Torrence]].<ref name="historyof"/><ref name="Wana">{{cite book|title=Hollywood 1940–2008|first=Marc|last=Wanamaker|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywood19402000000wana|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywood19402000000wana/page/18 18]|isbn=978-0-7385-5923-0|access-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> Official groundbreaking took place on February 8, 1960.<ref name="latimes.com"/> On March 28, 1960, the first permanent star, director [[Stanley Kramer]]'s, was completed on the easternmost end of the new Walk near the intersection of Hollywood and Gower.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381016309/?terms=%22Kramer%20First%20Name%20Put%20in%20Walk%20of%20Fame%22&match=1|title=Kramer First Name Put in Walk of Fame|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 29, 1960|page=15|access-date=June 12, 2010	|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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