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Show TV Page 8 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Monday, November 5, 1984 Dick Kleiner Museum: An Intimate Look at Past Hollywood For years, HOLLYWOOD groups have been trying to establish a Hollywood museum. Now private enterprise has accomplished what the others couldn't. We now have: Hollywood Museum. It isn't big and it isn't as as it perhaps could be, but it's a start. It does have all kinds of things to interest movie fans costumes, props, photos, and such. Crammed into a Hollywood Boulevard building that previously had been a bank and a restaurant, the museum is an egg's throw from Mann's Chinese Theater of star footprint fame. So, tourists can have an orgy of gawking at Hollywoodiana. Because this is a private, g (they hope) venture, admission is charged. The idea is to make enough money so the museum can be enlarged and more exhibits can be bought or borrowed. "We've been offered more exhibits than we have room for now," says Al Drebin, president of the museum. Many exhibits are from the private collection of John LeBold, who is the curator. He had been associated with Debbie Reynolds, who, for years, tried to get a museum started. various non-prof- it profit-makin- "My house was a museum," LeBold says. "A year ago, when it became obvious that Debbie's it museum plans for a just wouldn't work because the industry wouldn't cooperate, I left her and teamed up with Al." non-prof- Drebin believes Hollywood needs a museum. His statistics show that some 4.5 million tourists pour into Hollywood annually "And they are usually disap- pointed in what they find in Holly- itself." "There's nothing here," Drebin says, "except Mann's Chinese Theater and the Walk Of Fame. But now we're here. And we've added a touch of class. It used to wood be sleaze around Hollywood, but we're certainly not sleaze." For starters, the museum attractions range from the coffin that Dracula (George Hamilton) slept in for "Love At First Bite," through the chandelier that dominated "Casablanca." to the time machine Malcolm McDowell traveled in for "Time After Time." (The time machine is on loan from Warner Brothers studio, but it may never be returned. After it was installed, the museum put in new doors, too small for the machine to fit through.) There is a room full of costumes among them, outfits worn bv Boris Karloff, in "The a I Black ..i Cat"; Tippy Hedren, in "The Birds" (donated by Miss Hedren; and the holes aren't bird holes, but moth holes); Gary Cooper, in "Marco Polo"; Marilyn Monroe, in "The Seven Year Itch"; and Judy Garland in "The Wizard Of Oz." The museum already has helped preserve a costume headed for the scrap heap. Katharine Hepburn's exquisite gown from "Mary of Scotland" was destined to be cut up and used as napkins when the museum saved it and put it on exhibition. In the Horror Room, you can see the very pterodactyl King Kong battled ; the clown doll that terrified the children in "Poltergeist"; the teeth from "The Thing"; and various paraphernalia from "The Creature From the Black Lagoon," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "2001" and many more. There are exhibits from silent-filHarold Lloyd medays mentos (his gloves and glasses) donated by his family; and from very recent movies Shirley in ii. i n. - ,y , sy. f 'f v m Shirley MacLaine rebuilt, five new hotels are com- ing, the old Broadway department store is being converted into an MacLaine's costume from "Terms Of Endearment." Drebin and LeBold realize that the museum is too small, but they have plans to expand. The church next door is for sale, they say. And they believe they are beginning a long career with the museum. The two feel that besides helping Hollywood save its history, they also are helping the geographical area known as Hollywood stage a comeback. 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