I’m starting a new project (because lord knows I need more projects). The Hollywood Walk of Fame has not-quite 3000 stars on it, and about 1200 of those were awarded for motion picture achievements. My goal: to have seen at least one movie that each one of the honorees worked on. One movie can represent multiple people/groups, so it should be far fewer than 1200 movies total. I’m going to start on the southeast end of Hollywood Boulevard, work my way down the south side, then come back up the north side. After that, the same idea going up and down Vine. I’m using Wikipedia’s version of the list. If someone doesn’t have a motion picture star (even if they’ve done a ton of movies) I’m not counting them.
There are seven stars at 6100 Hollywood. I remember seeing movies from three of them:
- Stanley Kramer: Produced High Noon, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
- Gregory Peck: starred in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Omen, and a billion other movies.
- Jimmy Smits: surprisingly few films. I’ve definitely seen him in Attack of the Clones & Rogue One, though.
The other four: William C. de Mille, Juanita Moore, and Gregory Ratoff.
Today’s movie takes care of director William C. de Mille, older brother of Cecil B. DeMille (who changed the spelling of his name to look cool). He wrote a lot of scripts based on plays. Miss Lulu Betts was originally a novel, then a play.
This is a comedy based on a nonsense premise: two people pretending to marry are told the wedding was accidentally real. It’s about as feminist as a 105 year old movie directed by a man could manage, and it’s pretty fun. It’s on Youtube.
Today’s fake poster is a Lulu.
Three more movies and I get to move all the way to 6104 Hollywood Boulevard!
