The TCL Chinese Theatre has shed a great many names and gathered a great many footprints since Sid Grauman opened it in 1927. He shipped in pagodas and statuary from China after the success of the nearby Egyptian Theatre convinced him that Hollywood Boulevard needed something grander still. More than five million visitors have since pressed their hands or feet into its forecourt cement, matching themselves against the likes of Sylvester Stallone and, rather more improbably, Donald Duck.

Grauman left his mark elsewhere too: fresh from dental work and unable to manage a normal sandwich, he is said to have inspired the finely chopped Cobb salad. The theatre's lobby, meanwhile, reportedly hosts a small ghostly girl named Annabel, fond of tugging the curtain ropes backstage.

VoiceMap's Hollywood Boulevard tour traces Grauman's flair for spectacle, from the Egyptian Theatre's influence to the red carpets and rumoured hauntings that followed.