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Walk of Fame History — Hollywood
Iconic Hollywood forever Remember
The very first person to receive the very first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was Joanne Woodward. The official groundbreaking occurred on February 9, 1960. The actress Joanne Woodward, an Academy Award winner for The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
E.M. Stuart, is the man credited with the idea for creating the Walk of Fame, he served as the volunteer President in 1953 for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. He proposed the Walk as a means to “maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world.”
He appointed a committee to begin fleshing out the idea and the architectural firm of Periera and Luckman was employed to develop some specific proposals. Where the original idea came from is not certain; however, the ceiling of the dining room of the historic Hollywood Hotel once had stars painted on the ceiling with the names of celebrities and that may have been a precursor of the idea to place stars in the sidewalks.
By 1955 the basic tenets of the proposal were agreed uponk and i that year, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce proceeded to secure the necessary signatures to present to the City for further action in the formation of an assessment district.