Hollywood High School
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- This article is about Hollywood High school, a secondary school. For the computer game, see Hollywood High.
Hollywood High School was established in 1903. The school, which covers grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The school's sports mascot is the Sheik, based on the Rudolph Valentino movie named The Sheik.
The Hollywood High Organ Opus 481 was a gift from the class of 1924. After suffering severe water damage from the Northridge earthquake in 1994 it was restored in 2002
Notable alumni
Hollywood High School has over 500 notable graduates, including:
- Carol Burnett, actress/comedian
- Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist (apocryphal, Castaneda makes the claim to have attended HHS in his books, but it is disputed elsewhere)
- Norman Chandler, newspaper publisher
- Lon Chaney, Jr., actor
- Warren Christopher, diplomat/U.S. Secretary of State
- Edward Dmytryk, film director/one of the Hollywood 10
- Harley Earl, auto designer
- Mike Farrell, actor
- Laurence Fishburne, actor
- Judy Garland, actress
- James Garner, actor
- Gloria Grahame, actress
- Barbara Hershey, actress
- John Huston, film director
- Chuck Jones, animator
- William Kennard, FCC Chairman
- Alan Ladd, actor
- Carole Lombard, actress
- Joel McCrea, actor
- Ann Miller, dancer/actress
- Judith Miller, journalist
- Ricky Nelson, singer
- Marni Nixon, singer
- Marcel Ophuls, film director
- Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
- Richard Perle, political advisor
- John Ritter, actor
- Mickey Rooney, actor
- Jason Robards, actor
- Scott Shaw, author, actor, filmmaker
- William Shockley, Nobel laureate/inventor of the transistor
- Susan Sontag, writer
- Charlene Tilton, actress
- Mel Torme, singer
- Joe Trippi, Political Activist (chairman of Howard Dean 2004 campaign)
- Lana Turner, actress
- Joseph Wapner, Judge of The People's Court
- Beatrice Wood, ceramist
- Fay Wray, actress
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