Hers was Ceremony #128 and she was invited to place her hand and footprints in connection with her latest picture, The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Debbie had been a fan of Grauman's famed forecourt since childhood and earlier in her career had attended prestigious film premieres at the theatre.

On the day of her ceremony, Debbie was ill with an unpleasant twenty-four-hour virus, but that didn't stop the show.  She told the crowd that gathered for the event, "I'd have gotten out of a death bed to be here!"

In her autobiography Debbie later recalled, "I put my hands and feet in the wet cement outside Grauman's Chinese in Hollywood, and at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Gus Grissom and John Young lifted off into outer space for the third manned space flight ever in a capsule christened 'The Molly Brown'."

Debbie's large cement block is located near the center of the forecourt and is tinted a shade of red.  It contains the inscription, written in Debbie's hand, "Many Thanks, Debbie Reynolds" as well as the date, "1/14/65" and the imprints of her hands and high-heeled shoes.