{"id":14337,"date":"2025-11-16T20:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:35:48","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-meet-john-doe-rod-la-rocque-and-a-progress-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/16\/walk-of-fame-movies-meet-john-doe-rod-la-rocque-and-a-progress-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: Meet John Doe, Rod La Rocque, and a progress update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:156,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tinselandstars.com\\\/the-wedding-of-all-weddings-the-marriage-of-vilma-banky-to-rod-la-roque&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250803120112\\\/https:\\\/\\\/tinselandstars.com\\\/the-wedding-of-all-weddings-the-marriage-of-vilma-banky-to-rod-la-roque\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-17 04:35:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-26 01:41:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 04:35:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 15:03:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 13:53:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 03:05:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 18:37:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 00:13:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 14:39:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 20:43:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 02:53:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 22:09:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 16:06:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 14:19:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 00:23:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 00:23:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe.\" class=\"wp-image-14339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck embrace while a group of men watch in Meet John Doe.\" class=\"wp-image-14340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet-john-doe-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A movie made by a very conservative director starring two very conservative actors that says you can&#8217;t trust the rich and you can&#8217;t stop ordinary people from doing good. I wonder how they&#8217;d feel about today&#8217;s political climate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rod-la-rocque.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Rod La Rocque's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Rod La Rocque.\" class=\"wp-image-14341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rod-la-rocque.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rod-la-rocque-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rod-la-rocque-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rod La Rocque (1580 Vine Street) plays Ted Sheldon, the nephew of the richest man in the movie, and the closest thing Gary Cooper has to a romantic rival.  In real life he had been a popular silent film star ho transitioned into character roles in talkies, then retired in his fifties. His marriage to fellow silent film star Vilma Banky (who I recently saw in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-son-of-the-sheik-1921-and-rudolph-valentino\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3501\">Son of the Sheik<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/tinselandstars.com\/the-wedding-of-all-weddings-the-marriage-of-vilma-banky-to-rod-la-roque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was huge<\/a>, and they stayed together until his death in 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s fake poster is another &#8220;Meet [name of person]&#8221; movie, but I doubt anyone will recognize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meet-John-Doe-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Meet John Doe mimicking the poster for Meet Wally Sparks.\" class=\"wp-image-14338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meet-John-Doe-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meet-John-Doe-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meet-John-Doe-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meet-John-Doe.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walk of Fame Progress Report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-1024x392.jpg\" alt=\"A map of my progress seeing movies for every motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The entire walk (Hollywood Blvd from Gower to La Brea, Vine St from Franklin to Sunset) is highlighted. most of it is yellow, but the south side of Hollywood from Gower to Vine and the east side of Vine from Hollywood to just south of Selma is red.\" class=\"wp-image-14346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-1024x392.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-1536x588.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walk-of-fame-progress-251116-2048x784.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on how you look at it, I&#8217;m either very far along or just getting started. There are 1227 motion picture stars. If you look at contiguous stars, I&#8217;ve only completed 142, or about 11.5%. That&#8217;s the part in red. But if you don&#8217;t worry about them touching, I&#8217;ve seen 876, about 71%. And a lot of these old movies cover more than one star, so it should only go faster as I see more stuff. That&#8217;s good, because at the rate I&#8217;m going this thing is going to take me four years! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then Gary Cooper went on to co-found the seminal LA punk band X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}