Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood, died Wednesday at his suite in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. He was 84. Grant, who died of apparently natural causes, was perhaps best known ...

One of the honors I enjoyed earlier this week while on assignment in Hollywood, was the chance to have lunch with a man who's not always considered a household name, but is a famous part of Hollywood ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood's honorary mayor, Johnny Grant, celebrated his 84th birthday Wednesday surrounded by Tinseltown legends. Mickey Rooney, Angie Dickinson and Mamie Van Doren were among ...

Grant was 76 when he dictated his memoirs to Clothild Bruneau Grant, the last in his fairly long line of wives. Meikle has ably edited the manuscript down to focus on his life in the 1850s and '60s, ...