{"id":967,"date":"2013-02-19T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-02-19T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:38:08","slug":"graumans-doorman-lock-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2013\/02\/19\/graumans-doorman-lock-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Grauman&#8217;s Doorman Lock Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s unique picture captures Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre doorman (circa 1949), Joseph Lockard Martin Jr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-968 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"Lock Martin\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LockMartin.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Better known by his stage name, Lock Martin, the 7\u20191\u201d \u2013 7\u20197\u201d (accounts vary on his height) actor worked in various public relations\/promotional roles and appeared in a handful of movies, before being hired as Grauman\u2019s doorman in the late 1940\u2019s; his highly visible presence at the Chinese Theatre eventually brought Mr. Martin his signature role, as Gort, in the film \u201cThe Day the Earth Stood Still\u201d. Capitalizing on his notoriety, Lock Martin had a run with Spike Jones and his City Slickers, before moving on to host a children\u2019s television show in the 1950\u2019s, as \u201cThe Gentle Giant\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s unique picture captures Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre doorman (circa 1949), Joseph Lockard Martin Jr. Better known by his stage name, Lock Martin, the 7\u20191\u201d \u2013 7\u20197\u201d (accounts vary on his height) actor worked in various public relations\/promotional roles and appeared in a handful of movies, before being hired as Grauman\u2019s doorman in the late 1940\u2019s; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}