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Burban Grigory (Rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya seized a Moscow theater and about 750 hostages then threatened to blow up the building if Russia did not begin a military pullout from Chechnya. Russian special forces pumped a knockout gas into the theater two days later, incapacitating the 60 hostage-takers - as well as the hostages – and killing 120 people.)
Donaldson Ted
Evans Jack
Heche Anne
Howard Rance
Hunt Marsha
Lasky Jr Jesse
Nelson Billie
Paragon John 1
Paragon John 2
Paragon John 3
Risk Victoria
Sumac Yma 2
Tenuta Judy 1
Tenuta Judy 2
Turkel Joseph
Abel David (David Abel was the cinematographer on 110 films, including Madame Butterfly, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, and Holiday Inn.)
Achron Joseph (Joseph Achron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin. He joined the Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1911 and in 1913 became the head of the music department at the Kharkiv Conservatory in Russia, and later at the Leningrad Artists' Union. After moving to the US, he taught violin, performed concerts, and composed for a few movies.)
Adams Don (Don Adams' grave marker has changed in the last year or so. This plaque is new.)
Adams Don (Don Adams was a drill sergeant at one time.)
Adams Don (He did many voice parts for cartoons and animated movies.)
Adlon Louis (Louis Adlon had a minor acting career, but gained fame in the documentary filmed by his nephew about the family's Adlon Hotel. He was the brother-in-law of Marion Davies, mistress of William Randolph Hearst.)
Adoree Renee (Actress Renee Adoree was born in France, found success in 1925's The Big Parade, and later co-starred with Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu. She retired after becoming ill and died at 35 from tuberculosis.)
Adrian Marker (In 1939, Adrian married actress Janet Gaynor. This is somewhat odd because he was openly gay, but probably due to studio pressure.)
Adrian Photo (Gilbert Adrian was a costume designer at MGM studios, and was the creator of Joan Crawford's square-shoulder style.)
ADSL Prez Tour (This is the president of the ADSLA, giving us a welcome and explaining the ADSLA functions.)
ADSL Signup (The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles (ADSLA) is hosting a walking tour of the famous cemetery.)
ADSLA Bracelet (Another host, in response to a compliment, is describing some of the doodads on her bracelet. The marker is for Virgina Rappe, whose death lead to 3 trials of actor Fatty Arbuckle, who was eventually acquitted.)
ADSLA Docent (Yet another member talking about, and like, director John Huston, whose marker is off-screen, stage right.)
ADSLA Prez (Welcome speech by the ADSLA president.)
Ainsworth Helen (Helen Ainsworth was a stage and film actress thru the 40's, and as an agent worked with Guy Madison, Marilyn Monroe, Rhonda Fleming, Carol Channing and Howard Keel. She also wrote and produced.)
Alden Norman (Norman Alden started as a disc jockey in Fort Worth. He won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Show and started a Hollywood career, acting on TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Not for Hire, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Lawless Years, Hennesey, Rango, My Three Sons, Mod Squad, Gunsmoke, and The Streets of San Francisco, as well as doing voice-work on hundreds of projects including Aquaman on The All-New Super Friends Hour, and of Kay in The Sword in the Stone (1963). He had a notable role in the film I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.)
Alderson Erville (Erville Alderson acted in silent movies, then Guilty?, Shanghaied Love, Haunted Gold, Lazy River, Hearts in Bondage, Santa Fe Trail, Parachute Battalion, Sergeant York, Man from Frisco, and Objective, Burma!)
Alexander James (James Alexander appeared in the 50's movies Jack and the Beanstalk, Port of Hell, Treasure of Ruby Hills, Las Vegas Shakedown, and Night Freight, plus a couple TV shows before his early demise.)
Allen Charlie (Charlie Allen was a co-founder and singer for the blues and rock group Pacific Gas & Electric. He co-wrote Are You Ready?, a hit for PG&E, and covered by The Staple Singers.)
Allen Lester (Lester Allen worked in the circus, MC'd at the Palace Theater, and acted from the 20's through 50's, including The Pirate, and some Ma and Pa Kettle movies.)
Alper Buddy (Murray Alper was an actor in The Royal Family of Broadway, The Maltese Falcon, Tricky Dicks, The Outlaws Is Coming, and the original The Nutty Professor. On TV in Get Smart and Gomer Pyle.)
Amy
Arbuckle Fatty Photo (Fatty Arbuckle was acquitted of sexual assault after 2 mistrials and a third trial.)
Arndt William (William Arndt was a model and talent agent, and represented talent world-wide, especially well-known male models.)
Arnheim Gus (Gus Arnheim was a band leader, noted for writing I Cried for You from 1923. He also had a few small acting roles. His group backed Bing Crosby on several recordings.)
Arthur Art (Art Arthur was a Broadway columnist, later with the Toronto Star. He was on CB DeMille's executive staff, and was on the board of the Writers Guild of America. He worked on the Oscar-winning documentary, Seeds of Destiny in 1946.)
Asher Max (Max Asher acted as Mike in the Mike and Jake series of shorts in 1913, and appeared in 200 other roles, including the comic in 1947's The Perils of Pauline.)
Ashley Sylvia (Sylvia Ashley was an English model, actress and socialite, who was best known for her marriages to Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Clark Gable, and lastly to Ambassador Hotel executive and race car driver, Dimitri Djordjadze.)
Astor Gertrude (Gertrude Astor acted, mostly uncredited, in How Green Was My Valley, Reap the Wild Wind, Sunset Blvd, A Place in the Sun, When Worlds Collide, and the Sound of Music. She played trombone on a riverboat before her acting career.)
Avadon David (David Avadon was an illusionist whose trademark became picking pockets of guests onstage. He was a technical advisor on movies regarding picking pockets, trained policemen to spot it, and wrote a book about it.)
Ayres Agnes (Agnes Ayres was an actress during the silent film era, best known as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino.)
Baird Leah (Leah Baird acted in many silent movies, including opposite Douglas Fairbanks. Her last bit appearances were in Around the World in Eighty Days, and A Hard Man both 1957. She also wrote several screenplays.)
Baker C Graham (Charles Graham Baker was a screenwriter for more than 170 films between 1915 and 1948. He directed 13 shorts in the 1910’s, and produced 1940’s Swiss Family Robinson. He and his father invented the game of Gin Rummy in 1909.)
Baker Reginald (Snowy Baker was an athlete and actor. Baker boxed in the 1908 Olympics. Besides the usual acting roles, he performed stunts in 1944's National Velvet.)
Ballard Walter (Some relatives.)
Barbee Cecil (In 1923, he and his brothers purchased the Coca-Cola franchise for the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding area within a 50 mile radius, and served as Executive Vice-President.)
Bardens Peter (Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and composer, briefly with Them, then Shotgun Express with Rod Stewart, Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood. Eventually formed Camel in the early 70's, then went solo.)
Barnes George (George Barnes was a cinematographer, and oscar-nominated eight times including 3 films in 1927, Spellbound, Sampson and Delilah. He won for the Hitchcock film Rebecca.)
Barnett Jackson (A portion of a 1934 newspaper obituary... Jackson Barnett was "the world's richest Indian". As oil gushed forth from his 160 acres in Creek county - land that had been given up as unproductive, and which had been allotted him as punishment for his participation in the ill-fated "Crazy Snake" rebellion - Barnett's fortune was estimated at $90,000 per month... For 70 years Jackson lived among his dogs and ponies in a log cabin shack near Henryetta. Unkept, unlettered, dirty, the millionaire Creek was considered a "scrub" Indian, unable to meet the requirements of the Creek tribe. An outcast, Jackson lived alone until "black gold" poured out of his allotment. It was there that Anna Laura Lowe, a Kansas oil promoter, found him, and rused the millionaire "scrub" across the Kansas state line to marry him.)
Bauchens Anne (Anne Bauchens edited every DeMille film from 1915's We Can't Have Everything and ending with The Ten Commandments 38 years later. She was nominated for four Oscars and won for North West Mounted Police.)
Beaudine William
Beckley Tony (Tony Beckley was a British actor, appearing in Chimes at Midnight, Revenge of the Pink Panther, and the Italian Job. He starred only in The Fiend, and his last role was in When A Stranger Calls.)
Bell Monta (Monta Bell started as a journalist in Washington DC. He later acted on stage and in films from 1923. Charlie Chaplin employed Bell as a film editor and assistant director. In 1924, he became a full-fledged director of sophisticated sex comedies, and is known for directing Greta Garbo's first American film, Torrent. Bell then headed production at Astoria Studios. From the early 30's, Bell directed a number of high comedies and low melodramas later moving to producing films. Monta directed 20 films from 1924 to 1945. In addition, he produced 20 films and wrote 9 screenplays.)
Bench
Bench Man
Benton Curtis (Curtis Benton appeared in several silent films including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Stranger In His Own Home, and Scorched Wings. He also wrote 21 screenplays.)
Berger Elmer (Elmer Berger was an inventor responsible for getting rear-view mirrors installed in automobiles.)
Berkeley George (George Berkeley acted in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Captain Midnite, The Left-Handed Gun, Daniel Boone, Glass Houses, and Life Stinks.)
Bernard Harry (Harry Bernard appeared in 26 Laurel and Hardy movies, worked at Hal Roach, Paramount and RKO, and had a few serious supporting roles.)
Berton Victor (Victor Berton was a jazz drummer, starting at age 7 in a Milwaukee theatre, studied with the Chicago Symphony while a teen, and was featured in several performances with the LA Philharmonic.)
Beyer Charles (Charles Beyer started as a talent agent in 1920, representing W.C. Fields, Lowell Sherman, May Robson, Richard Dix and Victor McLaglen. He also acted in silents, sometimes as Charles Byer.)
Biegler George (Medal of Honor winner George Biegler.)
Bigsby (History of the Atlas missile on the back of the marker.)
Bigsby (The grave marker of Carl Bigsby, a graphics designer.)
Bigsby Carl (Bigsby, again.)
Bing Herman (Herman Bing was a character actor, much in demand during the 1930s but his type of character became less popular, and he had trouble finding roles in the 40's. He became increasingly depressed, and committed suicide in 1947.)
Bird Danger Sign (Danger sign.)
Blanc Mel (Mel Blanc was the voice behind many cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny.)
Bliss Lucille (Lucille Bliss was an American actress and voice artist, lending her voice to numerous TV characters, including the title character of the very first made-for-TV cartoon, Crusader Rabbit; Smurfette on the popular 1980s cartoon The Smurfs; and Ms. Bitters on the Nickelodeon animated series Invader ZIM. In addition to her TV roles, she was a voice actress in feature films and early radio including Pat Novak, for Hire; Candy Matson; and The Charlie McCarthy Show.)
Bond Lilian (Lilian Bond was an actress in the Ziegfeld Follies, and in three dozen films, including Rider of the Plains, The Old Dark House, and 1940's The Westerner.)
Borie Marcia (Marcia Borie was a Hollywood entertainment writer/journalist and magazine editor. Author of countless expose articles, columns, and books.)
Breil Joseph (Joseph Breil was a tenor singer and composer. He composed music for DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and Intolerance. His love theme for Birth of a Nation was later used as the theme for radio's Amos and Andy.)
Brendel El Flo (Elmer Brendel stared in vaudeville with his wife, Flo. As “The Synthetic Swede” with a fractured accent, from 1929-31, he was in nearly all Fox features, usually as a comic. He was in the Oscar nominated 2-reeler Blitz Kiss in 1941.)
Bressart Felix (Felix Bressart was forced out of Germany in 1936, and starred in his first US movie, Swanee River in 1939. He appeared in Ninotchka, and To Be Or Not To Be.)
Bridgwood Charlotte (Charlotte Bridgwood is noted as the mother of the first actress to get screen credit, Florence Lawrence. She also invented (and failed to properly patent) the automobile turn signal and windshield wiper.)
Brooks Jack (Jack Brooks, in his mothers's niche, was a composer, writing Old Buttermilk Sky, and That's Amore, and songs for The Patsy, The Ladies Man, Witness For The Prosecution, and "surf movies".)
Bruni Peter (Actor Peter Bruni had a few guest spots on TV.)
Buddhist
Buddhist
Buddhist
Buddhist
Buddhist
Buddhist (Buddhist area.)
Buddhist Tower
Buddhist Tower (The Buddhist view.)
Buffington Sam
Bunker Edward (Edward Bunker had an extensive criminal background and spent multiple terms in prison, then wrote crime-based fiction and acted.)
Butts R Dale (R Dale Butts was the chief pianist and arranger for NBC Radio, then Republic Studios as a staff composer. Nominated for Flame of the Barbara Coast. Once married to Dale Evans (she used his name).)
Calhern Louis (Actor Louis Calhern was in a full range of movies including Duck Soup, Annie Get Your Gun, The Asphalt Jungle. He had a heart attack while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon.)
Callier Frank (Frank Callier was an internationally renowned violin maker.)
Cansino Eduardo (Eduardo Cansino Jr was uncredited in 5 acting roles, and was the younger brother of Rita Hayworth.)
Cansino Vernon (Vernon Cansino was in 6 films, with credit in Madonna of the Desert, and Song of My Heart. He was the brother of Rita Hayworth.)
Carewe Edwin (Edwin Carewe was an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He discovered Dolores Del Rio, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman and Gary Cooper.)
Carlyle John (John Carlyle appeared in Spirit of St Louis, Mike Hammer, and Paper Dolls among other roles. He also wrote Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and My Life in Old Hollywood.)
Carr Alexander (Alexander Carr was a Russian-born actor and writer, known for April Fool (1926), The Death Kiss (1932), Potash and Perlmutter (1923), and his last film, 1940's Christmas in July.)
Cartwright Lynn (Actress Lynn Cartwright often appeared with her actor-husband Leo Gordon, was in Wasp Woman, and most famously played the older Geena Davis character in A League of Their Own.)
Cemetery Sign (Another day at Hollywood Forever cemetery.)
Chair (Chair at the memorial.)
Chaplin Hanna2
Chaplin Hannah (Hannah Chaplin, mother of Charlie.)
Charles Chaplin Lillian Grey (Charles Chaplin was the son, and Lillian Grey the second wife, of actor Charlie Chaplin. Jr and Sr appeared in The Limelight. Grey won the largest divorce settlement at the time in 1927. Both wrote separate books about their family life.)
Chief Standing Bear (Chief Luther Standing Bear chose his first name at random while at a school. He toured a year with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, acted, was president of the Indian Actors Association and wrote several books about Sioux life.)
Christie Al (Al Christie started at the Nestor studio, which later moved with him and some staff to California, and started the first Hollywood studio in 1911. Al started his own Christie Film Co in 1917.)
Christmas Grave (Five miles up Santa Monica Blvd from Rodeo Drive is Hollywood Forever cemetery.)
Clark J Ross Maus (Another host talking about the Clark family. The Clark family mausoleum. J Ross was a businessman, and president of the LA chamber of commerce. J Ross went down with the Titanic.)
Clark Library Photo (Clark had one of the largest literature libraries, which was bequeathed to UCLA.)
Clark WA Mausoleum (William A Clark mausoleum.)
Clark William A Photo (ADSLA guide holding a photo of Clark.)
Clark William A3
Clark William A4
Clarkson Lana (Actress Lana Clarkson was shot to death in Phil Specter's house.)
Classen Otto (Otto Classen was an artist known for his desert landscapes and portraits.)
Clune William (William Clune built an early soundstage which was used by United Artists, Columbia, Inspiration Pictures, Lillian & Dorothy Gish Productions and currently Raleigh Studios. He also owned a number of theatres in the LA area.)
Cody Iron Eyes (Iron Eyes Cody was actually an Italian-American, most famous as the crying Indian in the 1970's TV commercial.)
Cohn Art (Art Cohn was a sportswriter, and screenwriter for Stromboli, Glory Alley, The Girl Who Had Everything, Men of the Fighting Lady, and The Seven Hills of Rome. He was killed in the same plane crash as Elizabeth Taylor's husband Mike Todd.)
Cohn Crypt (Harry Cohn was head of Columbia Pictures, and reportedly the most-hated man in Hollywood.)
Cohn Harry Joan (Joan Perry, born Elizabeth Rosiland Miller, was a model as Betty Miller, and an actress and singer. She gained early acting experience in class plays. In the early 1930s, Perry worked as a model in New York City. In 1935, she went to Hollywood, co-starring with Ronald Reagan, Ralph Bellamy, Lew Ayres, and Melvyn Douglas. After Columbia in the early 1940s, she went to Warner Bros where she was in International Squadron (1941) and Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941). Perry was married to Harry Cohn from 1941 until his death in 1958, then Harry Karl and later Laurence Harvey.)
Cole Cornelius (Cornelius Cole was an American politician. He served one term in the US House of Representatives as a Republican representing California from 1863 to 1865, and another term in the Senate from 1867 to 1873. In March 1856, Cole organized the California branch of the Republican Party, acting as secretary and writing the manifesto. Later that summer, Cole started the Sacramento Daily California Times with James McClatchy as an editor, though it lasted only a few months after the 1856 National election. In 1880 he moved to southern California where he owned one of the original Spanish/Mexican landgrants, what is now known as Hollywood, then was dubbed Colegrove after his wife, Olive Colegrove. There are several streets now named after the family; Cole St, Willoughby Ave, Eleanor St and Seward St. The eastern California community of Coleville in Mono County is named for him.)
Collier Lois (As Lois Collier, Madelyn Jones acted in B movies and serials such as Outlaws of Cherokee Trail, Raiders of the Range, Cobra Woman, Jungle Queen, 5 episodes of TV's Dick Tracy and 58 episodes of Boston Blackie.)
Collings Pierre (Pierre Collings was a screenwriter and cinematographer. He won two oscars for Best Original Story and Best Screenplay for "The Story of Louis Pasteur". Shortly thereafter he suffered a nervous breakdown, and early death.)
Connelly Edward (Edward Connelly was a newpaper reporter before acting on stage and in silent films, notably The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, and Scaramouche. The clock tower at Hollywood Forever was dedicated in his memory in 1930.)
Copper Jacket (Movies and commercials are still shot here ocassionally. No one at the time knew if this is a prop or if it is going to be someone's actual marker.)
Corb Mortimer (Morty Corb was a jazz double-bassist playing with Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman. He recorded his only album as a leader, Strictly from Dixie, in 1957.)
Cornell Chris 1 (Chris Cornell is best known as the frontman for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. Three of Soundgarden's subsequent albums would go on to be certified platinum, including 1994's 'Superunknown', which featured "Black Hole Sun", "Fell on Black Days", "Spoonman" and "My Wave". In 2001, Cornell and former members of Rage Against the Machine formed Audioslave. The group released three albums before announcing its split in 2007.)
Cornell Chris 2
Crane William (William Crane, with actor Stuart Robson produced and starred in a successful series comedies and classics including The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night.)
Croak Sign (This is an appropriate bumper sticker considering where I am...)
Cronjager Henry (Henry Cronjager was a portrait photographer in Germany before becoming a leading cameraman in the US during the silent-film days.)
Crosland Alan (Alan Crosland has the distinction of directing the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer.)
Cruze James (James Cruze was a leading actor of the 1910s, then directed the first epic western, The Covered Wagon, in 1923. He also directed I Cover the Waterfront, and The Gangs of New York.)
Crypt (Remembering.)
Crypt (Remembering.)
Crypt Decor
Crypt Decor
Cummings Irving (Irving Cummings entered movies in 1909 and quickly became a popular leading man. Films include Buster Keaton's first feature film, The Saphead (1920), Fred Niblo's film Sex (1920), and The Round-Up (1920), a Western drama starring Roscoe Arbuckle. He was oscar-nominated for directing 1929's In Old Arizona. He was known for the big splashy 1930s Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies.)
Dale Dick (Richard Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was a rock guitarist. Dale's performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa in 1961 are credited with creating the surf music phenomenon. The instrumental "Misirlou" (1962) is a surf-rock version of a folk song considered as Dale's signature single. He learned the piano when he was nine, was given a trumpet in seventh grade, and later acquired a ukulele. His uncle taught him how to play the tarabaki. Dale worked with Leo Fender to produce custom-made amplifiers which pushed the limits of the technology. Dale and the Del-Tones performed both sides of his single, "Secret Surfin' Spot" in the 1963 movie, Beach Party, and performed the songs "My First Love," "Runnin' Wild" and "Muscle Beach" in the 1964 film, Muscle Beach Party. "Misirlou" was featured in the movie Pulp Fiction. In 2009, Dale was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, and in 2011 into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, in the Surf Culture category.)
Daley Cass (Cass Daley was a band singer, but her comedy bits led her to nightclubs and radio. She was on The Fitch Bandwagon for which she was voted America's funniest comedienne. In the 1943 movie Crazy Fish, she played herself and a goofy look-alike.)
Dana Viola (Viola Dana Flugrath was a silent film actress in 88 movies between 1914 and 1929, many with Buster Keaton.)
Dandy Ned (Ned Dandy wrote screenplays including Mandrake the Magician, Overland with Kit Carson, Laugh Your Blues Away, and Trouble at Melody Mesa.)
Dane Karl (Joel Oliansky wrote scripts for Bird, The Law, The Competition, and Masada, earning several Emmy's or WGA awards.)
Daniels Bebe (Bebe Daniels co-starred in a long list of silent movies as Harold Lloyd's leading lady, made the transition to talkies and musicals, and eventually went into radio with her husband Ben Lyon.)
Dark Cloud (Chief Dark Cloud, born Elijah Tahamont, was one of the earliest Native American film actors. He was also a popular and highly paid model who posed for over twenty years for famed sculptor, Frederic Remington.)
Dassin Joe (Joe Dassin was a singer-songwriter, and appeared in some movies directed by his father, including Topkapi.)
Davenport Havis (Havis Davenport was an actress with 16 appearances during the 1950s, before retiring in 1959. They include A Star Is Born, The Bob Cummings Show, twice on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Scandal Incorporated, Death Valley Days, and her last on Alcoa Theatre. Her first role was as the newlywed in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.)
Davis Madelyn Pugh (Madelyn Pugh Davis was a TV writer for The Steve Allen Show, The Paul Lynde Show, and all the variations of I Love Lucy. Married at one time to producer Quinn Martin.)
De Mille Cecil B (Guide talking about Cecil B DeMille.)
De Mille Cecil B (Director Cecil B DeMille's crypt. He faces toward Paramount Pictures studios, on the other side of the wall in the background.)
De Ravenne Nina (Nina de Revenne acted as Nina Borget in Marie Galante, Till We Meet Again, The Blue Dahlia, That Forsythe Woman, and Funny Face.)
Dearholt Lee (Ashton Dearholt acted, as Richard Holt, in the silent film era, appearing in 75 films between 1915 and 1938. He worked with Universal Studios on several of melodramas during the 1910s, but usually worked on his own as the producer and star in a series of "Pinto Pete" Western during the 1920s. In 1934, Dearholt and his friend, Edgar Rice Burroughs, founded the film production company Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises to make The New Adventures of Tarzan in which his character was a mercenary antagonistic explorer sent to steal the valuable Green Goddess. During its production in Guatemala, Dearholt married the leading actress, Ula Holt, and Burroughs broke up with his first wife to marry Dearholt's ex-wife, Florence Gilbert. Dearborn's first wife, 1916-1925, was actress Helene Rosson.)
DeCarrascosa Anna Maria (Anna de Carrascosa is supposedly the "Lady in Black" who would leave a red rose or bouquet at Rudy Valentino's grave on the anniversary of his death. A number of copycats confuse the matter.)
DEF Records (DEF Records closed in 1993.)
DeMille Cecil (Director Cecil B. DeMille's grave. He faces Paramount Picture studio, which he headed, located on the other side of the cemetery wall.)
DeMond Maurice (Maurice De Mond was the founder of the Breakfast Club, a highly popular Los Angeles-based club where big-name entertainers performed and visiting dignitaries frequented in the 1920s.)
Denton Jacob (Jacob Denton was a millionaire oil businessman who lived with, then was shot to death by, serial killer Louise Peete.)
Desmond-Taylor William (William Deane-Tanner was in the movie business, though he had a mysterious disappearance. He was murdered in 1922 when he was known as William Desmond Taylor.)
Desmond-Taylor William (William Deane-Tanner was in the movie business, though he had a mysterious disappearance. He was murdered in 1922 when he was known as William Desmond Taylor.)
Dia De Los Muertes (Dia de los muertos - Day of deaths.)
Diamond Leo (Leo Diamond was an actor, composer and musician, notably on the harmonica. Compositions include Off Shore, Hold on to Your Dreams, Tijuana Border Patrol, Mediterranean Suite, Skin Diver's Suite, and Nashville Nights.)
Dickey Basil (Basil Dickey was a screenwriter, primarily of action serials such as The Perils of Pauline, Flash Gordon, and Captain Midnight.)
Dickson Gloria (Gloria Dickson acted during the 30s and 40s in They Won't Forget, Talent Scout, Gold Diggers in Paris, Racket Busters, Heart of the North, Secrets of an Actress, They Made Me a Criminal, Waterfront, Cowboy Quarterback, No Place to Go, On Your Toes, Private Detective, King of the Lumberjacks, Tear Gas Squad, I Want a Divorce, This Thing Called Love, The Big Boss, Mercy Island, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, Power of the Press, Lady of Burlesque, Crime Doctor's Strangest Case, and Rationing, She died in a house fire.)
DiPaolo Dante (Dante Cesare DiPaolo was an American dancer and actor. DiPaolo started his career as a dancer. His first movie role, at 13, was opposite Bing Crosby in The Star Maker. In 1946 he starred with Judy Garland in Ziegfeld Follies. From 1948 to 1950, he was in various Broadway shows. He was a dancer in the 50s, mainly in Las Vegas, where married a showgirl and for several years they lived in Rome, where DiPaolo continued to act. After divorcing, DiPaolo was involved with singer Rosemary Clooney, and they married in November 1997.)
Dippel Andreas (Andreas Dippel was an opera tenor, and performed in the title role of Lohengrin and as Tristan in Tristan and Isolde. From 1908 to 1910 he was a joint manager with Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the New York Metropolitan Opera. During 1910 to 1913 he managed the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company, and then formed the Dippel Opera Comique Company. In his later years, worked in the movie industry as a voice coach and musical advisor.)
Dorris Charles
Dorris Theresa
Douras Marion3
Douras Masoleum (Her large mausoleum spells her Greek family name with a 'V'.)
Douras Photo (Marion Davies (born Douras) was newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst's mistress for 30 years.)
Drake Frances (Frances Drake was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She played Eponine in 1935's Les Miserables. She was also in Bolero (1934), Mad Love (1935), and The Invisible Ray (1936) . She started out as a nightclub dancer in London. In her later years Drake became very involved in animal-rights causes.)
Drake Larry (Larry Drake was an actor and comedian, best known as developmentally-disabled Benny Stulwicz on TV's LA Law, for which he won two Emmy Awards. He also appeared in both Darkman and Darkman II: The Return of Durant movies, and was a homicidal mental patient who escapes an insane asylum in the slasher black comedy Dr. Giggles. Other film and TV roles including Time Quest, Dark Asylum, Paranoid, Bean, Overnight Delivery, The Beast, The Journey of August King, Murder in New Hampshire, The Taming of the Shrew, American Pie 2, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, and 14 episodes on Prey. He was the voice of Pops in Johnny Bravo.)
Dryden Ernst (Ernst Dryden was an accomplished commercial artist, particularly of posters, and a menswear designer. He was found dead by composer Bronislav Kaper after suffering a heart attack.)
Dunn Eddie (Eddie Dunn was an actor, mainly in comedies. More than 375 movies include Million Dollar Legs; Me and My Pal; The Midnight Patrol; The Bank Dick; The Great Dictator; Nothing But Trouble; Call Northside 777; and Buckaroo, Sheriff of Texas.)
Dyer Elmer (Elmer Dyer was a film cameraman who specialized in aerial photography including that on Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels. He shared an oscar nomination for 1943's Air Force.)
Eason Reaves (Breezy Reaves Eason was a child actor in silent westerns, and was killed by a runaway truck on the set of The Fox.)
Eddy Nelson (Singer (and so-so actor) Nelson Eddy.)
Eddy Nelson (Photo of Nelson Eddy in costume.)
Eddy Nelson (Singer and actor Nelson Eddy, now in the shadow of a large monument.)
Elhardt Kaye (Kaye Elhardt was an actress with dozens of TV appearances as a glamorous leading lady. She is perhaps best known for her comedic role as "Josephine St. Cloud" (pronounced "San Cloo") opposite James Garner and Jack Kelly in the 1959 "Pappy" episode of Maverick. She was in three episodes of Perry Mason, and Family Affair, Highway Patrol, Wagon Train, Sea Hunt, seven different roles in 77 Sunset Strip, Bourbon Street Beat, Bat Masterson, My Three Sons, Surfside Six, Hawaiian Eye, Bronco, Yancy Derringer, and Colt .45, with bit parts in nine films.)
Elinor Carli (Carli Elinor conducted the orchestra for the opening of DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. He wrote and arranged the music for Chaplin's The Gold Rush and John Ford's Four Sons. He acted in Gilda and Around the World in 80 Days.)
Elswit Dorothy (A member of the Hollywood Blondes - Dorothy Elswit was married to Fred Elswit, a theatre/café agent for the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. On a stormy night when all commercial flights were grounded, Fred, who was a licensed pilot, and Dorothy boarded their rented plane, which crashed outside of Las Vegas.)
Elswit Fred (Fred Elswit was a theatre/café agent for the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. On a stormy night when all commercial flights were grounded, Fred, who was a licensed pilot, and wife Dorothy, rented a plane, which crashed outside of Las Vegas.)
Emmons Louise (Louise Emmons worked for some time as a portrait artist. Her birth year varies by 20 years, but she started acting late in life when she made her first silent film in 1914. With "the kind of face that could stop a clock", she appeared in over 65 films until 1935, mostly in small, but memorable roles specializing in playing old hags, including the evil headmistress from the Our Gang film Mush and Milk (1933). Her last film was the horror movie Mark of the Vampire (1935), where she played an old gypsy. Her unmarked grave got a marker in March 2014.)
Ennis EC (Edgar Clyde Ennis was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and singer. He was on Bob Hope's radio show for 8 years spanning WWII.)
Fabian Max (Maximilian Fabian was a cinematographer on 16 films, including El Presidio (1930), Shadows of the Night (1928), The Gay Deceiver (1926), and The Thirteenth Hour (1927).)
Factor Alan (Alan Factor produced a handful of TV movies and 13 episodes of The Next Step Beyond. He had 7 acting roles as Alan Frost. He directed 6 episodes of One Step Beyond, and one Bewitched episode.)
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Fairbanks Crypt (The Fairbanks monument.)
Fairbanks Douglas (This is the grave of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Douglas, Jr joined him in 2000.)
Fairbanks Douglas (The Douglas Fairbanks sunken garden and monument was commissioned by his widow. Sr was moved here from Forest Lawn 2 years after his death.)
Fairbanks Goose (A goose in the pool at the Sunken Garden at Douglas Fairbanks' mausoleum.)
Fairbanks Mabel (Mabel Fairbanks was the first African-American inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Though she was never allowed into competitions, she tutored many champions.)
Fairbanks People (Sightseers.)
Fairbanks Photog (Back at the Fairbanks sunken garden with a photographer in action.)
Fairbanks Rock
Fairbanks Rocks (Douglas Fairbanks (Jr and Sr) meet Stonehenge.)
Fapp Daniel (Daniel Fapp was a cinematographer, known as the oscar-winning director of photography for West Side Story, and The Great Escape. He also was nominated for an oscar for Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Five Pennies (1959), One, Two, Three (1961), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and Marooned (1969).)
Faye Julia (Julia Faye was an actress, "famed throughout Hollywood for her perfect legs". Her performance in Cecil B. DeMille's The Volga Boatman (1926) established her as "one of Hollywood's popular leading ladies." She appeared in more Cecil B. DeMille films than any other actress, and in every one from 1939's Union Pacific on. She was DeMille's mistress off-screen and he kept her employed in bit parts long after her career (and their relationship) was over, including his most famous film, The Ten Commandments (1956).)
Fealy Maude (Maude Fealy was a stage and movie actress from age 3. Her Broadway debut was 1900's Quo Vadis. Fealy then toured England, and by 1907 was the star in touring productions in the US. She had a bit part in 1944's Gaslight, and 1956's The Ten Commandment. She also taught acting, and later in life she wrote and appeared in pageants, programs, and presented lectures for schools and community organizations.)
Feldman Charles (Charles K. Feldman was a Hollywood attorney, film producer and talent agent who founded the Famous Artists talent agency. He was adopted at age 6 after both parents died of cancer. In college, he worked as a mail carrier and a cameraman at a movie studio. He later went on to produce his own movies and created the Charles K. Feldman Productions in 1945. The company helped make Orson Welles's Macbeth, Lewis Milestone's The Red Pony, and Ben Hecht's The Shadow. The company produced A Streetcar Named Desire, where Feldman fought to protect the script from censorship. He later produced The Seven Year Itch, and was the agent of Marilyn Monroe from 1951 to 1955. His final production was 1967's Casino Royale.)
Fellows Edith (Edith Fellows was a child actress in the 1930s, best known for playing orphans and street urchins. She started in Charley Chase's film short Movie Night (1929). Her first fcredited role in a feature film was The Rider of Death Valley (1932). By 1935, she had been in over twenty films, and her performance in She Married Her Boss (1935) earned her a seven-year contract with Columbia - the first such contract offered to a child. Fellows had a series of leading roles, including Tugboat Princess, Pennies from Heaven, Little Miss Roughneck, and The Little Adventuress. In 1942, she appeared in two Gene Autry films, Heart of the Rio Grande and Stardust on the Sage. In 1946 she married talent agent Freddie Fields. In the 1950s, she had the breakdown of her marriage, addictions to Librium and Valium, alcoholism, depression, and stage fright. In the late 70s she starred in a play written by Rudy Venz about her life. In the 1980s, she returned to acting with sporadic roles in TV series.)
Ferris Walter (A former English teacher at Yale, Walter Ferris wrote screenplays for Under Two Flags (1936), Lloyd's of London (1936), Kidnapped (1938), Heidi (1937), The Little Princess (1939) and others.)
Finch Flora (Flora Finch starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company, working with Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennett, and Charlie Chaplin. She made 160 popular shorts with John Bunny, which were known as 'Bunnyfinches'.)
Finch Peter (Actor Peter Finch won an oscar as the newscaster in Network - 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore...')
Fleming Victor (Victor Fleming was a cinematographer, director and producer. His most-famous films are Captains Courageous, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, and Joan of Arc.)
Flower Tending (Regular people tending a gravesite. The cemetery is not responsible for maintaining the graves.)
Fowler Harry (Harry Fowler was a cinematographer on 30 films through the silent era, including The Freeze-Out, The Unknown, Shadows of the North, and Dark Skies.)
Fowley Kim (Kim Fowley was a record producer, singer and musician best-known for a series of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and for organizing and managing the Runaways in the 1970s. With Gary Paxton, he recorded the novelty song "Alley Oop", which reached # 1 in 1960. In 1961 he co-produced the instrumental "Like, Long Hair", which became a #38 hit for Paul Revere and the Raiders. He arranged "Nut Rocker" for B. Bumble and the Stingers, a # 1 hit in the UK in 1962, and talent scouted "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", a #48 hit for the Rivingtons. He produced "Popsicles and Icicles" by the Murmaids, which reached #3 in 1963. Fowley was the MC at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, inviting the audience to light matches and lighters to welcome a nervous John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band. Fowley co-wrote "King of the Night Time World" and "Do You Love Me?" on Kiss's 1976 album Destroyer. Fowley is featured in Mayor of the Sunset Strip, a 2003 documentary about the DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. In 2012, Fowley won the Special Jury Prize at the 13th Melbourne Underground Film Festival for two feature projects – Golden Road to Nowhere, and Black Room Doom.)
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Frank Anne (Anne Frank cenotaph.)
Frank Anne (Anne Frank cenotaph at the holocaust memorial. Her diary is one of the most-published books in the world.)
Frank Justin
Franklin Sidney (Sidney Franklin was a film director and producer. While in high school, with his brother Chester, he wrote, directed and edited the short film, The Baby (1915). They were hired to make a series of children's films. Later, he directed The Dark Angel (1935), The Good Earth (1937), and Duel in the Sun (1946). He produced Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), The Yearling (1946), Command Decision (1948) and his last film, Torch Song (1953). He won the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 1943, for "consistent high quality of production and achievement". He bore a striking resemblance to actor Adolphe Menjou.)
Frazer Alex (Alex Frazer acted in The Good Companions, Kidnapped, Cowboy and the Indians, Three Came Home, Loose in London, The War of the Worlds, and The Girl Can't Help It.)
Freeman Kathleen (Kathleen Freeman started in vaudeville, then studied and gave up piano in college. She played Sister Mary Stigmata in The Blues Brothers, and was the voice of Peg's unseen mother in Married With Children.)
Fries Otto (Otto Fries became a dapper-looking supporting comic with a varied background in medicine shows and vaudeville. He easily transitioned to film in the early 1910s. By 1915, he was with the Keystone Cops and entered a lifelong friendship with Stan Laurel, which led to appearances in Laurel's early films. Fries landed at Hal Roach Studios. He appeared in many of Roach's German-language talkies, as well as the Our Gang shorts. One of his more notable appearances was as a shiphand in the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business.)
Fuchs Leo (Actor Abraham Leon Springer Fuchs started his career as a stage actor, often writing his own music and lyrics. He had guest spots on many TV shows, and was Chief Rabbi in the movie The Frisco Kid with Gene Wilder.)
Gabor Arnold (Arnold Gabor was an opera singer. His career started in Vienna after winning a talent contest sponsored by Baron Rothschild. He sang with the Vienna Opera during WWI and at the Metropolitan Opera from 1923 until retiring 1941.)
Gangelin Paul (Paul Gangelin was a screenwriter, and wrote Roy Rogers favorite film My Pal Trigger. He also wrote episodes of TVs Annie Oakley, and the Gene Autrry Show,)
Gangelin Victor (Victor Gangelin was a film and TV set decorator. He shared an oscar win for 1961's West Side Story. Gangelin had also been co-nominated for 1945's Since You Went Away. He also worked on The Searchers, The Alamo, and Duel at Diablo.)
Garland Judy
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Gate (Entrance gate to the Beth Olam cemetery. Anne Frank cenotaph, chair and paper square are behind the bushes on the left.)
Gaudio Gaetano (Gaetano Gaudio was a cinematgrapher, starting in 1903 with Napoleon Crossing the Alps. He later worked for Thomas Ince, and shot 9 Norma Talmadge films. He also developed a silent camera that could be used for sound movies.)
Gaynor Janet
Geraghty Carmelita (Carmelita Geraghty was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1924. She co-starred in The Pleasure Garden which was Alfred Hitchcock's first film. She did not do well in talkies, and her last film was 1936s Phantom of Santa Fe. She later became an artist with impressionist works displayed in Paris.)
Gertsman Maury (Maury Gertsman was a cinematographer on Ma and Pa Kettle, To Hell and Back, The Creature Walks Among Us, and TV's Peter Gunn, Mister Ed, I'm Dickens He's Fenster, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy.)
Getty Estelle (Estelle Getty was one of TV's The Golden Girls.)
Gilbert Bobby (Bobby Gilbert started in vaudeville, and was among the first entertainers in the South Pacific USO tours. He acted from 1951 to 1973, mostly uncredited. Movies include Al Capone, and How to Murder Your Wife. TV included The Girl from U.N.C.L.E, Bonanza, and Marcus Welby MD.)
Gilbert Jody (Jody Gilbert was at one time a concert singer, and gave a recital at Carnegie Hall at the age of 19. She acted at the Pasadena Playhouse and her first big screen appearance was in Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. She also appeared in House by the River, Willard, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She was often credited as the fat woman due to her size, and played Tiny, the waitress, in 1941's comedy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break .)
Gregorian Berjouhi (Berjouhi Gregorian was a stage and screen actress.)
Griffith Elinor Warren (Elinor Warren was a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. She sent an early composition to the Schirmer music publishing company and received her first publishing contract before she graduated high school. Warren supported herself as an accompanist for singers and went on tour with contralto Margaret Matzenauer. In demand as both a pianist and a composer, she was a soloist twice with the LA Philharmonic and made several recordings with various singers. In the 1930s, Warren began working on larger-scale compositions including The Harp Weaver and the symphonic The Passing of King Arthur. In 1940, she focussed on composition with themes of nature, especially as in the American West, and mysticism. She wrote over 200 compositions, and her manuscripts and other materials are collected in the Library of Congress. Her second marriage, in 1936, was to film producer Z. Wayne Griffin.)
Griffith Griffith J (In front of the Griffith J. Griffith obelisk. He donated land that became Griffith Park in LA. He also shot his wife and spent time in San Quentin. After his death, LA reversed its previous refusal and accepted his money for the Griffith Observatory.)
Griffith Griffith J (In front of the Griffith J. Griffith obelisk. He donated land that became Griffith Park in LA.)
Griffith Griffith J (He also talked about Griffith J Griffith, who was not well-liked (tried to kill his wife). Griffith's money eventually went to Griffith Park and Griffith observatory.)
Guglielmi Nick (Nick Guglielmi skidded while racing at the popular Ascot Raceway in Los Angeles. Another car crashed into him and he was killed. After more racing deaths at Ascot over the next decade, the raceway was closed, and was later burned down by a janitor who was afraid it would reopen.)
Hackett Joan (Joan Hackett was in Support Your Local Sheriff, TV's The Defenders, and had an oscar nomination for Only When I laugh. She liked beauty sleep, hence her epitaph.)
Hajos Karl (Karl Hajos composed for stage musicals, then films including songs Falling Leaves, Beautiful Dawn, and Melodies Within My Heart. He wrote operettas including The Black Pierrot, The Red Cat Natja, White Lilacs, and America Sings.)
Halstead Bianca (Bianca Halstead was the bassist and lead singer of Betty Blowtorch, and was killed by a drunk driver.)
Hamilton Harley (Harley Hamilton was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He was the founder and first conductor of the LA Women's Orchestra in 1893 and of the LA Symphony in 1897. Hamilton was one of the first symphony American directors in those years, when most of conductors where born and trained abroad. He resigned in 1913 probably due to advancing deafness.)
Hamilton John (John Hamilton is best known as editor Perry White of the Daily Planet on TV's Adventures of Superman. He was also in The Maltese Falcon, Sitting Bull, TV's The Cisco Kid, and The Gene Autry Show.)
Hard Wired (Hard wired.)
Harper Valerie (Valerie Harper was an actress, beginning as a dancer on Broadway and making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. She is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which earned her 3 Emmy awards for supporting actress, and the spin-off Rhoda (1974–1978) which earned her an Emmy for lead actress. In 1986 and 1987, she appeared as Valerie Hogan on the sitcom Valerie. Films include Freebie and the Bean (1974) and Chapter Two (1979), which both earning Golden Globe nominations. She returned to stage work and in 2010 she was nominated for a Tony award for her performance as Tallulah Bankhead in the play Looped.)
Harrington Curtis (Gene Curtis Harrington was a film and TV director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic TV. He is considered one of the forerunners of what is called New Queer Cinema. He directed Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? with Shelley Winters, What's the Matter with Helen? with Winters and Debbie Reynolds, and Killer Bees. He directed some episodes of TV shows such as TV shows as Dynasty, Twilight Zone, The Colbys, Hotel. Wonder Woman, and Charlie's Angels.)
Harris Mildred (Mildred Harris was a silent film star, and the first of Charlie Chaplin's four wives. After their split, she had an affair with the Prince of Wales. She made 112 movies between 1912 and 1944, most of the talkies being uncredited..)
Harvey Don (Don Harvey acted in Northwest Territory, Human Desire, Strategic Air Command, The Far Country, and The Gun That Won the West. TV included Bonanza, Wagon Train, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Laramie, Maverick, and The Virginian.)
Hayton Lennie (Leonard Hayton was a musician, composer, conductor and arranger. Hayton's trademark was a captain's hat, which he always wore at a rakish angle. He started on the piano at age 6 and left high school to become the pianist with the Broadway Hotel Orchestra of Cass Hagen, a boyhood friend. He became friendly with Bing Crosby, then a member of The Rhythm Boys. In April 1932, when Crosby started a cross-country tour before making the film The Big Broadcast, Lennie Hayton and Eddie Lang provided the musical support on his theater appearances and his radio shows. In May 1932, Hayton led an orchestra for his first recordings with Crosby. In September 1932, Crosby again went on tour with Hayton accompanying him on piano. In January 1933, Hayton became the musical director for the Chesterfield radio series, them was musical director for Crosby's film Going Hollywood (1933), and in 1940 he became the musical director for MGM, earning oscar nominations for The Harvey Girls (1946) and The Pirate (1948). Hayton shared the oscar win with Roger Edens for music for On the Town in 1950. He also arranged the music for Singin' in the Rain in 1952. Hayton had another nomination for Star! and won as co-writer for Hello, Dolly! In 1947 Hayton married Lena Horne and also acted as her music director.)
Hayward Lillie (Lillie Hayward was a screenwriter whose career began during the silent era and continued well into the TV age. She wrote for more than 70 films and TV shows including The Shaggy Dog, TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, the films Her Husband's Secretary and Aloma of the South Seas which was co-written in part with her sister, actress and screenwriter Seena Owen.)
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Headstone Bottles (Not sure what is up.)
Headstone Car (Irvin probably liked cars.)
Headstones (More of the Jewish-area headstones.)
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Hemingway Pauline
Herman Woody (Woodrow Charles Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. He began in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental for its time, and their recordings received numerous Grammy nominations. In the 30s, Woody acquired the remains of the Isham Jones orchestra after Jones' retirement. Woody Herman's first band became known for its orchestrations of the blues. Later, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie wrote three arrangements for Herman, and in 1945 Herman recorded "Laura" from the 1944 movie. The 1944 group, which he called the First Herd, was known for its progressive jazz, heavily influenced by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. In 1946, the band won DownBeat, Metronome, Billboard and Esquire polls for best band. Classical composer Igor Stravinsky wrote the Ebony Concerto for the band in 1945, and it was performed live at Carnegie Hall. Herman disbanded the orchestra in 1946 at the height of its success to spend more time with his wife and family. Many critics cite December 1946 as the actual date the big-band era ended, when seven other bands, in addition to Herman's, dissolved. In 1947, Herman organized the Second Herd, and appeared in the movie New Orleans (1947) with Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Subsequent bands include the Third Herd and various editions during the 1960s. In the early 1970s, he toured frequently and began to work more in jazz education, offering workshops and taking on younger sidemen. In January 1973, Herman was one of the featured halftime performers at Super Bowl VII. Herman continued to perform into the 1980s, after the death of his wife and with his health in decline, chiefly to pay back taxes owed due to his business manager's bookkeeping in the 1960s.)
Hill Tony
Hilliker Benjamin (Benjamin Hilliker earned the Medal of Honor... he was hit in the head with a minie ball which passed through him. An order was given to lay him in the shade; he won't last long. He recovered, left with an ugly scar.)
Hirst Alan
Hollywood Forever Sign (In Hollywood.)
Holocaust Mem (Holocaust memorial.)
Hood Darla (Darla Hood was one of the "Our Gang" kids at age 4. Afterwards, she went into singing and voice-over work as adult roles were scarce. "I felt I had let my fans down by not remaining a child. They'd be dying to meet me and yet I could see their faces fall when I walked into the room. What do you say to someone whose fantasy has just been disturbed?")
Horsley David (David Horsley co-founded the first film studio in Hollywood after moving from the East coast for better weather. He later started Bostock Jungle Films Co using animals from a failed investment, but he untimately went broke.)
Howard Jean (Jean Howard was an actress with small roles in the 30s and 40s, but may be best known for her photography of Hollywood happenings, entitled Jean Howard's Hollywood: A Photo Memoir. Married for a time to agent/producer Charles Feldman.)
Humberstone H Bruce (H. Bruce "Lucky" Humberstone was a child actor; script clerk; assistant director working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan; and, ultimately, a director of 56 films including several of the Charlie Chan and Tarzan series, and the film noir I Wake Up Screaming (1941). He was one of the 28 founders of the Director's Guild of America.)
Huston John (John Huston is the father of actress Angelica Huston.)
Huston John (Director John Huston directed The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, and The African Queen.)
Huston John (At John Huston's grave.)
Jacobs Harrison (Harrison Jacobs was a screenwriter of 1930-40's westerns, most notably for the Hopalong Cassidy movies and TV show. He was in the army during WWI and WWII and rose to the rank of colonel.)
Janss Peter (Peter Janss married Arthur Letts' daughter.)
Jaquet Frank (Frank Jaquet was a short and fat character actor appearing in War Is a Racket, Stanley and Livingston, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The Lone Ranger, Corregidor, Ace in the Hole, and (now very thin) on I Love Lucy.)
Jason Rick (Rick Jason is probably best known for his role as lieutenant Gil Handley in TV's Combat. He produced wine after showbiz, then commited suicide.)
Jeffries Herb
Jones Christopher (Christopher Jones was an actor, beginning on Broadway in The Night of the Iguana starring Shelley Winters. He starred on TV's The Legend of Jesse James 1965–66. Movies included Wild in the Streets, Three in the Attic, and Ryan's Daughter. Issues while filming Ryan's Daughter cause him to give up that career, and he then painted and sculpted. He was once married to Susan Strassberg.)
Judys Bench (I don't know Judy, but this is her bench.)
Jurmann Walter (Walter Jurmann was a popular composer in Europe, and provided film scores and soundtracks after arriving in the US. Movies include Mutiny on the Bounty, San Francisco, A Day at the Races, and Presenting Lily Mars.)
Kanin Michael (Karl Dane was born Rasmus Carl Therkelsen Gottlieb, and acted successfully in silent movies, notably in The Big Parade, La Boheme, The Scarlet Letter and The Son of the Sheik. Business and marital woes led to his suicide.)
Kaper Bronislaw (Bronislaw Kaper was a Polish film composer, noted for the jazz standards Invitation, and On Green Dolphin Street. He also scored MGMs Lili and TVs The FBI.)
Karger Maxwell (Max Karger was one of the original founders and the general manager of Metro Pictures in NY before they moved to Hollywood and merged with Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer to form MGM Pictures. He was a "supervisor" of 43 films, producer of 42 films, director of 8 films and writer of 2 films.)
Karns Roscoe (Roscoe Karns was a supporting actor in It Happened One Night , His Girl Friday, Woman of the Year, and starred in TVs Rocky King, Detective.)
Keenan Frank (Frank Keenan was a stage and silent-movie actor, often performing while heavily drunk. His first wife, Katherine, died from a stroke while watching him on stage. They are the grandparents of actor Keenan Wynn.)
Keller Frank (Frank Keller was a TV and film editor oscar-nominated for Jonathon Livingston Seagull, The Hot Rock, and Beach Red, winning for Bullitt.)
Kennedy Tom (Tom Kennedy shares his daughter's crypt. He was the US amateur heavyweight boxing champ in 1908, then joined Mack Sennett's studio, and co-starred with Monte Collins in 11 two-reelers.)
Kidd Michael (Mike Kidd choreographed parts of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, worked with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, and worked on parts of Hello, Dolly!, and Merry Andrew.)
Kim Suzanna (Suzanna Kim was a dancer in Sons of the Desert, The Singing Marine, and Slaves of Bondage, all in the 30's. She was Little Fool in 1937's The Good Earth, and the woman on the sidewalk in 1989s forgettable The Wicked Stepmother.)
Kline Benjamin (Benjamin Kline was a cinematographer and film director. He started as a cinematographer in 1920 with Red Lane. His career included about 350 films and TV, many of which were serials and Three Stooges shorts. Kline also directed eight films, mostly westerns, in the 40's.)
Koening Andrew (Andrew Koenig was primarily an actor, and did some directing. He was the son of Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov on Star Trek. Andrew hanged himself during a period of depression.)
Korngold Erich (Erich Korngold, oscar-winning composer for 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'.)
Korngold Erich (Our ADSLA guide at the grave of Erich Korngold, oscar-winning composer for 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'.)
Kronschnabel Thomas (Thomas Kronschnabel was one of the Los Angeles PD’s first motorcycle officers, and one of its first officers to be killed the line of duty. He was shot while pulling over a car driven by a kidnapper who Kronschabel suspected of being a drunk driver.)
Kulick Robert
Kurnitz Harry (Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye. He also wrote some mystery fiction under the name Marco Page. After college, he worked as a book and music reviewer for The Philadelphia Record in 1930. Kurnitz wrote Fast Company, about skulduggery in the rare-book business, and after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the book, Kurnitz wrote the screenplay. He wrote more than forty movie scripts, including Witness for the Prosecution; What Next, Corporal Hargrove?; and How to Steal a Million. He was co-nominated with Noël Coward for a 1964 Tony Award as Best Author (Musical) for "The Girl Who Came to Supper.")
La Roche Vera
Lachman Harry (Harry Lachman was a magazine artist and painter, then directed 45 movies including George Whote's Scandals, Charlie Chan at the Circus, They Came by Night, and The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe.)
Laemmle Ernst (Ernst Laemmle directed 55 shorts and movies through the 30s, and co-founded Temple Israel in 1926.)
LaFontaine Don (Donald LaFontaine was a voiceover artist famous for over 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of TV ads, network promo, and video game trailers. His nicknames included Thunder Throat and The Voice of God.)
Laird Jack (Jack Laird started as a child actor in a few uncredited parts, then he moved into TV screenwriting and producing. He earned Emmy nominations for Ben Casey, Night Gallery, and Kojak. One of Laird's favorite actors was Leslie Nielsen and he was cast in Laird's TV movies See How They Run, Code Name: Heraclitus, Dark Intruder, The Return of Charlie Chan, and Laird's 1969-70 series, The Bold Ones.)
LaMarr Barbara (Barbara LaMarr was a silent screen actress who made it big in 1921's The Nut starring Douglas Fairbanks. Drugs, alcoho, and perhaps 5 husbands wore her down and she died of tuberculosis at age 29.)
Landau Arthur (Arthur Landau ran a talent agency with Edward Small, representing Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, and others. He later was in the production side of films.)
Lander David 1 (At age 10, David Leonard Landau decided to become an actor, and later studied at the High School for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Tech, and New York University. He was best known for his role of Andrew Helmut "Squiggy" Squiggman on Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1982, which also included sidekick Lenny, played by Michael McKean. Lander's partnership with McKean began at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where they developed the characters of Lenny and Squiggy. After Pittsburgh, they were in the LA-based comedy ensemble The Credibility Gap, and released an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979 featuring Christopher Guest on guitar. Lander and McKean also appeared in Steven Spielberg comedy 1941, and the 1980 Kurt Russell film Used Cars. Lander was on TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Married...with Children, Twin Peaks, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, Pacific Blue, The Drew Carey Show, and others. Film roles included A League of Their Own, a bit as the wedding minister in)
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Lasky Jesse L (Jesse Lasky Jr wrote screenplays including The Ten Commandments, TV's The Saint, Danger Man, The Prisoner, Space 1999, The Persuaders and The Baron. His autobiography is entitled Whatever Happened to Hollywood?)
Lawrence Florence (Florence Lawrence was the first actor to get screen credit.)
Le Cocque Alois (Alois Kahout was an artist born in Czechoslovakia, who studied at Prague's Real Schule, the Art Institute in Zagreb and in Paris at the Academie Julian under professors Baschet, Emile Bernard and others who were highly respected by the Post Impressionist school of painting. Kahout now renamed himself Lecoque - both names mean "Rooster". In 1913, his works were exhibited at the Anglo German Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London. He escaped from a German prison during WWII, and he then lived in Italy, and came to the US with only 5 dollars. He gifted a painting to the White House on the USA bicentennial.)
Le Saint Edward (Edward LeSaint acted in over 250 films including Huckleberry Finn, Horse Feathers, Reefer Madness and Modern TImes. He also directed 130 silent films and wrote 8 screenplays.)
Le Veque Eddie (Eddie LeVeque was and actor, whose first role in a major film was in D. W. Griffith's ''Intolerance.'' (1914). He later was a Keystone Kops, and was the last of the original members. After serving in WWI, he appeared in ''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' with Rudolph Valentino and ''The Black Pirate'' with Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)
Leary Nolan (Nolan Leary was a character actor in silent and talking films. Leary began his career entertaining US troops stationed in France during World War I, and went on to play vaudeville. Early silent films were Westerns, filmed on Staten Island, including Arizona Desert, and Sharkey's Last Game. Later, he had small parts in Make Way for Tomorrow, Ten North Frederick, Pollyanna, White Heat, All the King's Men, High Noon, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Sweet Charity. TV included Perry Mason, Lassie, The Waltons, Bonanza, and The Streets of San Francisco.)
Lehrman Henry (Henry Lehrman was an actor, screenwriter, director and producer in Hollywood's silent film era, working with DW Griffith and Mack Sennett. He directed and co-starred in Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living. In 1915, Lehrman established his own film company, the L-KO Kompany, to make two-reel comedies for Universal. He was notorious for his low regard for actors, and willingness to place his actors in dangerous situations earned him the nickname "Mr. Suicide". In 1916, Lehrman focussed on directing and producing in the "Sunshine Comedies" unit at Fox. In 1919, he met actress Virginia Rappe and they were later engaged, though in 1921, Rappe died after attending a party hosted by actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. For the two years following his fiancée's death, Lehrman was inactive in the film business, and had a 2-year marriage to actress Jocelyn Lee. In 1924 he returned to directing the "Sunshine Comedies" unit. He directed two sound films for Fox in 1929, but he had difficulty adapting to directing with sound and was dropped. Two years later he made his final attempt at sound films, writing and directing a comedy short for Universal. .)
Letts Harold (The Harold Letts mausoleum. He founded Broadway and Bullocks department stores, and was a local real estate developer. (Thanks Kristi.))
Lincoln Elmo (Elmo Lincoln was an actor and played the first Tarzan in the silent versions. He went into business, and made only a few minor acting appearances later.)
Lipson Jack (Jack Lipson acted mostly in uncredited 'fat man' parts, including WC Fields' Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, and the Three Stooges' Back from the Front.)
Long Walter (Walter Long was an actor in early films. He appeared in many DW Griffith films, including Intolerance, and The Birth of a Nation, where he appeared in black-face as Gus, an African American. Long also worked with Rudolph Valentino in the films The Sheik, Moran of the Lady Letty, and Blood and Sand. He later was a comic villain in four Laurel and Hardy films during the early 1930s. He was in WWI and rose to Lt Colonel in WWII. He died of a heart attack while watching 4th of July fireworks at the LA Coliseum.)
Lopez Perry (Perry Lopez acted, most notably in the movie Chinatown and the sequel, Two Jakes. He also was in McClintock!, Mister Roberts, and Kelly's Heroes.)
Lorre Cecile (Cecile Lorre Lovsky was an actress and former wife of Peter Lorre. She played T'Pau, the ruler of Vulcan, on the Star Trek episode where Spock had to return to marry and mate.)
Lorre Peter (Niche of famous bad-guy actor Peter Lorre.)
MacGargar MacEmery (Mac McCargar was a pianist, cellist and composer, who was hired by director DW Griffith to provide mood music for the actors when making Judith of Bethulia in 1912. The trend spread to other studios, but ended 3 years after Mac's death, with talkies.)
MacPherson Jeanie (Jeanie MacPherson acted in 121 silent films, and contributed writing to 54 movies including Reap the Wild Wind, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Plainsmen, and The Buccaneer.)
Maibaum Richard (Richard Maibaum was a screenwriter who worked on The Big Clock, and The Great Gatsby, and then the James Bond movies from Dr. No through License to Kill.)
Maloney Leo (Leo Maloney acted in his own studio productions. After a heart attack following his first talkie, Overland Bound, he sold the business, then drank himself to death shortly after.)
Malvern Paul (Paul Malvern was a child acrobat with The Ringling Bros. Circus, and a movie stuntman during silent and early talkie films. He produced 16 westerns 1933-35 and worked actor John Wayne on his early films. Malvern produced over 90 films before he retired in 1952 to care for his ill son, and wife, actress Jean Huntley.)
Mann Edward (Edward Mann was a cartoonist for his strip Blade Winter. He was a co-founder of Circle in the Square Theater in NY, and directed several films including Hot Pants Holiday, and Hooch.)
Mann Hank (Hank Mann was one of the early film comedians, working first for Mack Sennett as a Keystone Cop. In "talkies", he became a popular bit player and background extra., including The Maltese Falcon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, and The Perils of Pauline. He was the last surviving Keystone Kop. He managed an apartment building with his wife in later life.)
Mansfield Jayne (The group at Jayne Mansfield's cenotaph. She died young in an auto accident.)
Mansfield Jayne (Picture of Jayne Mansfield and her grave in Ohio.)
Mansfield Jayne (Jayne Mansfield is actually elsewhere. For some time, her picture was missing from this marker.)
Marco Paul (Paul Marco acted most famously as a cop in the (best) worst movie ever, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and other Ed Wood movies.)
Markers (They have some pretty ornate markers.)
Markers (Many central-Europeans are buried here.)
Markers (I've lost the group so I am wandering on my own.)
Markers
Markov Olga (Olga Markov was a writer, singer and poet according to her marker. There used to be a photo in the center. (No supporting info).)
Marley J Peverell
Marshall Tully (William Phillips, as Tully Marshall, was a character actor with extensive theater experience before he made his first film appearance in 1914. In 1902, The City, he was the first actor to say "Goddamn" on Broadway. D. W. Griffith cast him as the High Priest of Bel in Intolerance (1916), and he appeared in Penrod (1922), Tom Sawyer (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), Scarface (1932), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Sergeant York (1941) as Uncle Lige.)
Mathis June (June Mathis was a screenwriter, and was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third-most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. Mathis is best remembered for discovering Rudolph Valentino, and writing The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922). When Valentino unexpectedly died, Mathis offered a "temporary" arrangement of her spot in the family crypt. However, when Mathis herself died the following year, the arrangement became permanent. Instead of "evicting" Valentino, Mathis' husband, Sylvano Balboni, moved Valentino to the crypt beside hers, and sold the remaining crypt to Valentino's family. Mathis and Valentino repose side by side to this day.)
Mausoleum (The Cathedral mausoleum.)
Mausoleum Aisle
Mausoleum Aisle
Mausoleum Front
Mausoleum Front (Joining a new guide at the mausoleum.)
Mausoleum Geese (The William A Clark mausoleum in the pond. Clark was a philanthropist, and founder the LA Philharmonic Orchestra.)
Mausoleum Guide (The ADSLA guide in the middle of the mausoleum.)
Mausoleum Pond (William C Clark mausoleum.)
Mausoleum Sign (Hollywood Forever used to be named Hollywood Memorial Park. This sign never changed.)
Mausoleum Skylight
Mausoleum Skylight (A hole in the second floor.)
Mausoleum Window
Mayo Archie (Olga Markov was a writer, singer and poet according to her marker. There used to be a photo in the center. (No supporting info).)
MB Hearse (A Mercedes-Benz hearse.)
McDaniel Hattie (Because it was a racist cemetery at the time of her death, Hattie is buried elsewhere.)
McDaniel Hattie (Hattie McDaniel is actually buried elsewhere.)
McDaniel Hattie (Here we are with another ADSLA guide at the cenotaph of Hattie McDaniel, first black actress to win an oscar (Best Actress) for her role in 'Gone with the Wind'.)
McGavin Darren (Darren McGavin played the father in A Christmas Story, was Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and was Candice Bergen's father on Murphy Brown.)
Mei Sunken Garden (Co-worker checking out the goose in the pool at Douglas Fairbanks' sunken garden.)
Menjou Adolphe (A rather inexpensive marker and tree.)
Menjou Adolphe (Our next guide is holding a photo of actor Adolphe Menjou.)
Merrill Frank (Frank Merrill was a national gymnast champion during 1916-18. He stunt doubled for Elmo Lincoln in Tarzan, and acted in a few silent versions of Tarzan, contributing the rope swing and yell. His voice unsuitable for talkies, and he retired.)
Michelet Michel (Michel Michelet studied cello and composition. He fled the Nazis and settling in Los Angeles in 1942. He worked for United Artists, and also scored European films.)
Middleton Charles (Charles Middleton began film acting at age 46. He was is perhaps best remembered as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon series.)
Miller Arthur (Arthur Miller, in his mother's niche, was a cinematographer. He started with the Perils of Pauline serial in 1914, He was oscar-nominated 7 times, winning in 1942 for How Green Was My Valley, in 1944 for The Song of Bernadette, and in 1947 for Anna and the King of Siam.)
Miller Sidney (Sidney Miller was an actor. most notably opposite Mickey Rooney in Boys Town. He later directed and composed for the Mickey Mouse Club, and directed episodes of My Favorite Martian, My Mother the Car, Get Smart, and The Addams Family. He appeared in small roles on screen including the drunk looking for clams in Dragnet, and the nightclub owner in Star 80. He did voice-over work near the end of his career.)
Miller Winston (Winston Miller began as a child actor in silent films, then was a screenwriter, and later he produced many episodes of TV's Ironside, Cannon, and Little House on the Prairie.)
Miranda Thomas (Thomas Miranda was a co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). He wrote 15 screenplays and edited 2 films. He later went into real estate.)
Mitchell James (James Mitchell was an actor in Citizen Kane, Pride of the Yankees, Bar Sinister, Fearful Decision, Jeanne Eagles, and Gunman's Walk. TV shows included Playhouse 90, Gunsmoke, and Perry Mason.)
Moloney James David (James Moloney was a young talent agent handling big names, and then president of a production company. Cocaine got the upper hand, and JD finally hanged himself in his bathroom.)
Morris Adrian (Adrian Morris acted in 78 titles, including The Petrified Forest, Angels With Dirty Faces, Gone with the Wind, and The Grapes of Wrath.)
Morris Jack (Jack Morris was apparently a stuntman, though I could find no info on him.)
Muni Paul (Actor Paul Muni was oscar-nominated 6 times, (including his first and last performance, a status shared only by James Dean). Muni, unlike Dean, succeeded in winning once, for his lead role in the Story of Louis Pasteur.)
Mural Fountain
Murray Edgar (Edgar Murray was a stage and film actor,with small parts in the 1951 sci-fi horror classic The Thing From Another World, The Narrow Margin, and Beau James.)
Mushroom (On the fringe.)
Nadajan (Nadajan was a stage and movie actor, and was one of the ghosts in the horror thriller House of Usher.)
Neilson John (John Neilson acted in the TV movie Southern Fried, and in the films Honky, Terror House, Sharks' Treasure, and Judge and Jury.)
Nelson Eddy Sign
Nichols Dudley (Dudley Nichols was a screenwriter for Stagecoach, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Scarlet Street, And Then There Were None, Bringing Up Baby, and The Tin Star. He refused an oscar in 1936 as the guild was on strike.)
Nolan Mary
Norman Gertrude (Gertrude Norman was an actress born in 1848, and known for Fidelity (1911), The Chief's Talisman (1911) and The Coward (1911) , and best-known as the mother in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). She made her first talking picture at the age of 81. Her last role, uncredited, was in The Plainsman (1936).)
Nurmi Maila (Maila Nurmi was the TV host and personality known as Vampira.)
Nurmi Maila (Maila Nurmi hosted movies on TV as Vampira.)
Oliansky Joel (Joel Oliansky wrote scripts for Bird, The Law, The Competition, and Masada, earning several Emmy's or WGA awards.)
Oliansky Joel (He also directed episodes of Emergency, Kojak, Quincy M.E., Bring 'Em Back Alive, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the specials The Silence at Bethany and In Defense of a Married Man.)
Otis Bombing (ADSLA guide with photo of the bombed building.)
Otis Cenotaph (The Otis cenotaph. A cenotaph is a monument or marker that contains no body. It commemorates the bombing of the Times building in 1910.)
Otis Harrison (Here is our group at the grave of Harrison Otis and family. He was the second publisher of the LA Times newspaper.)
Otis History (Plaque on the cenotaph.)
Otis Marian (More of the Otis family. Harry Chandler married the bosses daughter, Marian.)
Otis Statue (Sculpture at the Otis cenotaph.)
Overton Frank (Actor Frank Overton is best-known to me as Colonel Bogan in the movie Fail Safe. He was the sheriff in To Kill A Mockingbird, and was on TV's Twelve O'clock High.)
Owen Seena (Seena Owen acted in the silent films A Yankee In the West, DW Griffiths' Intolerance, A Fugitive From Matrimony, and the talkie Officer Thirteen. She wrote 2 stories turned into movies for Dorothy Lamour.)
Palmer Byron (Byron Palmer acted and sang in the hit Broadway musical Where's Charley?, co-starred in Man in the Attic and on TVs This Is Your Music, and Bride and Groom, repeated on Perry Mason, and emceed beauty pageants.)
Paramount (Paramount studios is behind the wall.)
Parrish Helen (Helen Parrish started acting as Babe Ruth's daughter in Babe Comes Home in 1927, and was in the Our Gang series. In her teens she was notable as a rival in several Deanna Durbin movies. She was in the first season of Leave It To Beaver.)
Pearce Albert (Al Pearce was a comedian, singer and banjoist who was a popular personality on several radio networks from 1928 to 1947. He was a repeat guest on the WWII Armed Forces radio, and had a few acting parts in low-budget movies.)
Pennants (Paper squares.)
Pepper Arthur (Art Pepper played the saxophone and clarinet with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton. After some drug and legal issues, he played with Buddy Rich, and later toured Japan.)
Pepper Barbara (Barbara Pepper had a long and successful acting career, but is most famous as Doris Ziffel, the mother of Arnold the pig on TV's Green Acres.)
Pepper Jessica (Jessica Pepper Arthur acted in the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals, and 'fashion featurettes'. She then modeled and was on 19 magazine covers. In 1936 she was the image on Coca-Cola's famous tray, "The Hostess.")
Perrin Nat (Nat Perrin was trained an an attorney but was a comedy writer, contributing to Marx Brothers films, co-writing the play Hellzapoppin' that was adapted into a film, and The Great Morgan and Song of the Thin Man. He also produced TV's The Adams Family, The Beachcomer, and some Death Valley Days, and some How To Marry A Millionaire.)
Petin Stefan (Stefan Petin was, as his marker reads, a member of the Russian Imperial Guard and personal escort of tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II.)
Petkere Bernice (Bernice Petkere was a songwriter, dubbed the Queen of Tin Pan Alley by Irving Berlin. Her songs have been recorded by Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Queen Latifah, Vic Damone, Harry Belafonte and Kate Smith.)
Phillips Dorothy (Dorothy Phillips was an actress in 150 movies during the silent era, with a few uncredited appearances in the 40-60's. She was married to Allen Holubar.)
Phillips Dorothy (Allen Holubar was an actor, director and screenwriter in the silent era. He appeared in 38 films, and directed 33 films. He died early from pneumonia.)
Pollack Ben (Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader through the swing era. He either discovered or employed, at one time or another, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James - earning him the nickname Father of Swing.)
Pond Sludge (A bit of pond sludge.)
Pond Sludge (More pond scum.)
Powell Eleanor (Dancer/actress Eleanor Powell was a world- champion tap-dancer. She was married and divorced from actor Glenn Ford. She later became a minister in the Unity church.)
Power Tyrone (Tyrone Power, front, and WA Clark, rear.)
Power Tyrone Grave (Ironically, Power died of a heart attack shortly after doing a public-service announcement about recognizing signs of them.)
Power Tyrone Photo (Photo of film star Tyrone Power.)
Power Tyrone Quote (Inscription on Power grave.)
Preminger Ingo (Director Ingo Preminger never gained as much fame as older brother Otto, though he made the movie MASH. He was also a literary agent.)
Pruett Andrea (Harold's mom was there. She owns the famous Bagdad cafe in Newberry Springs.)
Pruett Harold (Harold Pruett acted in Sybil, Night Court, The Outsiders, Hull High, Medicine Ball, and most famously as Cody in Parker Lewis Can't Lose.)
Puglia Frank (Frank Puglia was an Italian film actor. He had small but memorable roles in films including Casablanca; Now, Voyager; and The Jungle Book. He was originally cast as the undertaker in The Godfather ("I believe in America... America has made me my fortune") but fell ill and the part was recast.)
Quinn Christopher (Christopher Quinn was the son of actor Anthony Quinn and actress Katherine DeMille (adopted daughter of Cecil B). Christopher drowned in WC Fields' swimming pool.)
Rabb Luther (Luther Rabb was a singer, musician, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the jazz rock group Ballin' Jack. They toured with Jimi Hendrix in 1970, and Rabb later played with Carlos Santana, and joined War.)
Ramone DeeDee (Dee Dee Ramone.)
Ramone DeeDee (Another day at Dee Dee Ramone's.)
Ramone Johnny (Johnny's marker got dressed up.)
Ramone Johnny (ADSLA guide showing photos of Johnny.)
Ramone Johnny (Another member of The Ramones is nearby.)
Ramone Johnny Birds (He was born John Cummings.)
Ramone Ramone (Johnny Ramone (born John Cummings).)
Rappe Virginia Photo (Another guide holds a photo of actress Virginia Rappe.)
RappeVirginia (Actress Virginia Rappe died from a ruptured bladder and peritonitis 4 days after attending a party given by actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. She was engaged to producer/director Henry Lehrman.)
Rasnick Marlene (Marlene Rasnick acted in two films and much stage, co-founded Public Works Improvisational Theatre in 1973. She was a proponent of medicinal marijuana, which she used during her battle with cancer.)
Reddin Tom (Tom Reddin was Chief of Police in Los Angeles from 1967-1069. He became a news commentator and had his own security company.)
Redwing Rodd (Rodd Redwing was a Native American actor noted for being the world's greatest quick-draw artist with six-guns, and was one of the top gun, knife, tomahawk, and whip instructors in Hollywood for many big-name actors.)
Regas Pedro (Peter Regas acted, mostly uncredited, in over 50 movies and TV including Road to Singapore, Northwest Mounted Police, To Have And Have Not, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray.)
Renick Ruth (Ruth Renick was a stage and film actress through the late 30s, appearing in The Mollycoddle, What'a A Life Worth?, The Men of Zanzibar. and Cannonball Express.)
Reynolds Burt 1 (Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an actor, director, and producer. In highschool, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern playing football as fullback. He hoped for a career in pro football, but in college he injured his knee, and later lost his spleen and injured his other knee in a car accident, causing him to give up football. Reynolds' first big acting break came when he was cast with Darren McGavin in the TV series Riverboat (1959–61). Reynolds quit after only 20 episodes. Reynolds says then he "couldn't get a job", and returned to guest starring on TV. 1962, Dennis Weaver wanted to leave Gunsmoke, and the producers developed a new character which went to Reynolds. Reynolds announced he would stay on the show "until it ends. I think it's a terrible mistake for an actor to leave a series in the middle of it", though Reynolds left in 1965. His first lead role was in Operation CIA (1965). TV included the police drama Dan August and the sitcom Evening Shade. Reynolds had become an entertaining)
Reynolds Lynn (Lynn Reynolds was an actor, then director, notably for Riders of the Purple Sage with Tom Mix. Supposedly, his gun jammed when threatening his wife during an argument, though he was able to kill himself in front of party guests.)
Riddle Nelson (Nelson Riddle was an American bandleader and orchestrator, and accompanied Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Linda Ronstadt.)
Riesenfeld Hugo (Hugo Riesenfeld was a composer, including for movies Joan the Woman, The Ten Commandments (1923), The King of Kings, Abraham Lincoln, Sunrise, and Tabu.)
Righter Carroll (Carroll Righter was known as the astrologer to the stars. His clients included first lady Nancy Reagan, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, Jane Withers, Joan Fontaine and Grace Kelly.)
Ritz Al (Al Ritz was one-third of the zany 'Ritz Brothers' comedy team, popular in 30's and 40's American movies.)
Ritz Harry (Harry Ritz was one-third of the zany 'Ritz Brothers' comedy team, popular in 30's and 40's American movies.)
Ritz Jimmy (Jimmy Ritz was one-third of the zany 'Ritz Brothers' comedy team, popular in 30's and 40's American movies.)
Roberts Theodore (Theodore Roberts was stage and silent-movie actor who appeared in 23 of CB DeMille's films including as Moses in 1923's The Ten Commandments.)
Robinson Jr Edward G (Edward G Robinson Jr, was the son of the more famous actor. TV included You Are There, Zane Gray Theatre, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Get Smart, and Bracken's World. Films included Invasion USA, Bus Stop, Screaming Eagles, Tank Battalion, and Some Like It Hot.)
Rooney Mickey (Mickey Rooney was an actor and performer. He played Andy Hardy in a series of fifteen films in the 1930s and 1940s. Early films included National Velvet and The Human Comedy, and he co-starred with Spencer Tracy in Boys Town. At nineteen he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for Babes in Arms, and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. Later films included Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and he was oscar-nominated for The Black Stallion (1979). Eight marriages included Ava Gardner, and Martha Vickers.)
Rooney Mickey (Rooney signed his will several weeks prior to his death. It disinherited all but one of his nine children and his wife Jan, from whom he was estranged, and instructed his lawyer, rather than family, to manage his estate.)
Rosanova Rosa
Rosen Abe (Abe Rosen acted in several films in the 1940s, then was a production supervisor on TV's What's My Line?.In the 1980s, he acted on TV and in films in minor roles. He is best-known as the recurring character "Al" on TV's Cheers, and the cafeteria concession stand attendant on Night Court.)
Ross Harry (Harry Ross was a make-up artist on dozens of movies, and the TV show Lassie.)
Rosson Arthur (Arthur Rosson started as a stuntman, later was an associate director, then a full-time director mostly on Westerns. He also was second-unit director on every DeMille picture from 1939 to 1956.)
Rosson Harold (Harold Rosson acted, then was an oscar-nominated cinematographer for The Wizard of Oz, Boom Town, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Asphalt Jungle, and The Bad Seed.)
Rosson Richard (Richard Rosson acted and directed silent films, and had a failure as director with his first talkie. He occasionally assisted Howard Hawks and did B-movies. His last film was the decent Corvette K-225 in 1943, 10 years before his suicide.)
Roth Jules (Jules Roth was the general manager of Hollywood Forever, when it was known as Hollywood Cemetery. Poor management almost killed the cemetery.)
Rothwell Walter (Walter Rothwell was an orchestra conductor, hired by LA Philharmonic founder William Clark. Walter started the Philharmonics' Symphonies For Youth, and was the music director until his death.)
Ruby Herman
Saint Statue
Saint Statue
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Saint Statue
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Saint Statue
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Saint Statue
Saloski Annetta (Annetta Hill was a soprano opera singer in Italian operas, including Faust and La Traviata. She married Oscar Giaccaglia, who was decorated as Chevalier of Civil Valor by the King of Italy shortly after.)
Salter Hans (Hans Salter composed scores for The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. He had oscar nominations for Christmas Holiday, The Merry Monahans, and This Love Of Ours.)
Savage Anne (Ann Savage was an actress best-remembered in 1945s film noir Detour, and more than twenty B movies. In the mid-1950s, she made some TV appearances and worked for industrial and inspirational film producers during the 1950s-70s.)
Schildkraut Joseph (Actor Joseph Schildkraut is probably best-known as Otto Frank in 1959's The Diary of Anne Frank, though he won a best supporting actor oscar for 1937's The Life of Emil Zola.)
Schlesinger Leon
Scott Tony
Scott Tony (Tony Scott was a British film director and producer. Films include The Hunger , Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Domino, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), and Unstoppable. He received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment in 2010. He committing suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, CA. He was the younger brother of director Ridley Scott.)
Scotti Vito (Actor Vito Scotti usually played waiters, barbers, maitre 'd's and similar characters, and was a repeat character on TV's The Flying Nun, Columbo, The Rifleman and Barefoot in the Park, and was Nazorine in The Godfather movie.)
Sedan Rolfe (Rolfe Sedan started as a nightclub entertainer and vaudeville performer with Al Jolson, before acting in over 300 roles including as the hotel manager in Ninotchka, the balloonist in The Wizard of Oz, 26 episodes as Beasley on the Burns and Allen Show, 11 episodes on the Jack Benny Show, and his last role as a rabbi in The Frisco Kid.)
Shannon Harry (Harry Shannon started in vaudeville, then acted in 144 films and 35 TV shows, and is best known as the alcoholic father in Citizen Kane.)
Shannon Peggy (Peggy Shannon was in the Follies, Broadway shows, then films. She was unsuccessfully billed as the second 'it' girl (Clara Bow), but never really caught on with fans. A failing marriage and career, and alcohol lead to an early heart attack.)
Sheridan Ann (Actress Ann Sheridan entered show-biz by winning the Search for Beauty contest. 'I can whistle through my fingers, bulldog a steer, light a fire with two sticks, shoot a pistol with fair accuracy, set type, and teach school.)
Sieber Rudolf (Rudolf Sieber was a producer, writer, and director in Europe. He was married to actress Marlene Deitrich for over fifty years, though they lived together for only the first five.)
Siegel Benjamin (Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a juvenile delinquent and later a gangster involved with the Genovese crime family. He was a major driving force behind large-scale development of metropolitan Las Vegas and started the Flamingo hotel. He was shot multiple times through the window of his girlfriend's house.)
Siegel Jerry (Jerry Siegel was a cartoonist for different strips at DC Comics, and eventually developed Superman. Joanne Siegel was the artist's model for Lois Lane.)
Silver Johnny
Simonian Edmon (As a child, Edmon Simonian practiced hand carving with his father and grandfather using many heavy duty woodcarving tools. Later in his youth, Edmon spent time in Italy and studied Renaissance architecture, which he later incorporated in his work. Edmon moved from Armenia to the US and set up a furniture-making shop in the small Hollywood apartment he shared with his wife and daughter. He opened his own store on Melrose Avenue in 1978 and often had to build furniture on the sidewalk because he did not have enough room inside. That venture grew into a block-long storefront, creating reproduction furniture, carved panel rooms, fireplaces, and mantels.)
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Sisson Vera (Vera Sisson starred in many silent movies including 7 with cowboy superstar J. Warren Kerrigan, and with pre-stardom Rudolph Valentino. She married actor-director Richard Rosson, and committed suicide a year after he did.)
Slatkin Felix (Felix Slatkin was a violinist and conductor, and he played the violin solo in How Green Was My Valley and How To Marry A Millionaire. He founded the Hollywood String Quartet in 1939 which won a Grammy in 1958.)
Small Edward (Edward Small was a film producer, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, Brewster's Millions, and Kansas City Confidential.)
Snyder Sherri (A modern-day actress giving a monologue as 1920's actress Barbara Lamarr.)
Sokoloff Vladimir (Vladimir Sokoloff acted in Don Quixote, The Life of Emile Zola, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Scarlet Street, I Was A Teenage Werewolf, and The Magnificent Seven.)
Spadoni Giacomo (Giacomo Spadoni was an operatic conductor, and coach for Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza.)
Spencer Richard (Richard Selzer, known as Mr. Blackwell, made lists of best and worst-dressed woman. I remember him causing a wardrobe malfunction on a talk show as he adjusted the dress on an actress whose name I forget. Thanks for the mammaries.)
Sperl Harry (Harry Sperl sold Rickenbacker autos, acted in a film or two including with his son in Glen or Glenda, was the first to fly around LA in an airplane, drilled oil wells, and was killed in an auto accident in front of 20th Century Fox studios.)
Sperl Timothy (Tim Sperl was a LA County Marshall but was fired after a felony conviction. He acted as Timothy Farrell, usually as a cop, in several of Ed Woods movies, and was on court-TV shows as a bailiff.)
Staigers Del (Charles Delaware Staigers played the cornet, with his first solo at age 9. He went on to play with the Sousa band, and others, then got into radio and movie recordings.)
Stained Glass
Stained Glass
Standing Gordon (Gordon Standing acted in 11 silent movies including Three Black Eyes, Outlaws of the Sea, and Skedaddle Gold. He was killed by a lion at Selig zoo which housed movie animals.)
Stanley Pete (I don't know Pete, but I assume he played the piano.)
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Statue (The main lobby of the mausoleum has about a dozen statues of apostles. I forget who is who.)
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Sterling Ford (He was also an accomplished photographer, painter, sculptor and cartoonist. Makeup not withstanding, he was called the best dressed man in Hollywood.)
Sterling Ford (Ford Sterling played the police captain in the Keystone Kops. He ran away from home to join the circus, and started his career as Keno, the Boy Clown.)
Stevens Bert (Byron Stevens was the brother of Ruby Stevens AKA actress Barbara Stanwyck, and played extras in films for 25 years.)
Stockdale Carl (Carl Stockdale acted in the silent era though the 40's. He testified at the William Desmond Taylor murder trial. Frank acted as well.)
Sumac Yma (Yma Sumac was the stage name of the celebrated soprano singer from Peru. She arced through folk songs, lounge acts, and a rock album. She appears in Secret of the Incas, and Omar Khayyam.)
Switzer Carl (Carl's marker.)
Switzer G Fred (Carl's father invented the breast-enlarger shown on his marker.)
Switzer Photo (Another ADSLA member showing us around, here at Carl Switzer's grave. Carl played 'Alfalfa' in the "Our Gang" series. He died young in a fight over $50.)
Tablet (Holocaust memorial.)
Talmadge Norma (Norma Talmadge was an actress and film producer of the silent era. Popular for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920's. Her most famous films are Smilin’ Through, and director Frank Borzage's Secrets, and The Lady.. After two talkies, she retired.)
Talmadge Norma
Tanner Hans (Hans Tanner was the official historian for Ferrari, and wrote the definitive book on the history of the car and the man..)
Teodorescu Ion (Ion Teodorescu, from Romania. acted in Foul Play, Wholly Moses!, Archie Bunker's Place, Bret Maverick, Barney Miller, and others.)
Teodorescu Ovidiu (Ovidiu Teodorecsu was, as his marker says, a Romanian actor, though he died in Los Angeles.)
Thompson Nick (Nick Thompson acted in Scarface, Top Hat, Blockade, A Bell for Adano, Viva Zapata!, Sky King and Daniel Boone, among others.)
Thorn Addie
Thorn Cyril (Cyril Thorn’s first wife, Addie, died in 1946. He married again, but his second wife filed for divorce after Thorn started setting an extra place at the dinner table for Addie. In 1953, he killed himself by inhaling carbon monoxide near her grave. Thorn left behind a series of letters indicating his eagerness to experience death and belief in an afterlife. He requested that his funeral include "some light, tall object be placed on top of the coffin in full view of everyone. I will try to knock it off if I can. If I don't succeed it will prove nothing to those of you who do not understand. If I do, it will prove much." His note to his current third wife, Jean, said "My research into the study of psychic phenomena has brought me to the place where I am better than 50% convinced that death does not mean the end of this entity we call 'I’. Therefore, in the light of this evidence, I will just say good night, Jean, until we meet again." He is buried next to his first wife.)
Times Bombing (Another host talking about the bombing of the Los Angeles Times newspaper building. There are large markers for the paper's Otis family behind and next to him.)
Toberman Charles (Buildings include the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theater, El Capitan Theatre, the Roosevelt Hotel, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Masonic Temple.)
Toberman Charles (Charles Toberman was a real estate developer known as Mr. Hollywood and the Father of Hollywood for his role in developing Hollywood and many of its landmarks.)
Toland Gregg (Gregg Toland was behind the camera for Wuthering Heights and Citizen Kane. He pioneered the use of deep focus to include sharp details in the background.)
Tomata DuPlenty (Tomata Du Plenty started life as David Xavier Harrigan. He founded Ze Whiz Kidz comedy troupe in Seattle, and later was the singer in the late-70's punk band The Screamers. He also painted.)
Tonge Philip (Philip Tonge was an English actor, making his stage debut at age five. His adult acting career was in the US, where he and his parents settled after the WWI. He made numerous appearances in Broadway productions, including nine Noel Coward plays. Films include Miracle on 34th Street, Hans Christian Andersen, Witness for the Prosecution, Elephant Walk, and House of Wax. For TV, he appeared on Perry Mason, Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal, and Northwest Passage.)
Tosti Don (Don Tosti was a musician and composer of classical, jazz, and rhythm-and-blues. His Pachuco Boogie in 1948 was the first million-selling Latin song.)
Toto (Terry was a Terrier whose most famous role was as Toto in The Wizard of Oz.)
Toto
Toto
Toumanova Tamara (Tamara Toumanova was a ballerina. She lived in refugee camps in Russia, Shanghai and Cairo before settling in Paris. Her first film was Days of Glory, also Gregory Peck's first film.)
Tour Crowd (The first group is headed off.)
Tour Group (Waiting for the tour, which starts every 1/2 hour.)
Tour Group (The tour group.)
Tour Signup (Signing up for the walking tour hosted by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.)
Travers Victor (Victor Travers was an English character actor, known for his work in Three Stooges films including An Ache In Every Stake, Loco Boy Makes Good, Three Smart Saps, Crash Goes the Hash, Three Pests In a Mess, and Half-Wits Holiday. He also appeared in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and Only Angels Have Wings (1939).)
Trevor-Thomas Hugh (Hugh Trevor started an insurance business before acting in 19 roles from 1927-31. After resuming his insurance business catering to Hollywood clients, he died from complications of an appendectomy.)
Tucker George L (George L Tucker, a former railroad clerk, made 1913's Traffic in Souls, a documentary of white slavery. It's sucess allowed co-funder Carl Laemmle to start his Universal City studio. GLT directed 65 other films.)
Tyler Kim (Kim Tyler was a child actor in the 1960s. His first TV credit was in a 1956 episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour, with subsequent guest appearances on sitcoms including Hazel, The Addams Family, My Favorite Martian and My Three Sons. He had a recurring role on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, and played a pal of Opie in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show. He is best-known for playing the oldest son in the 1965-67 family sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. Tyler left acting after that series’ two-season run.)
Tyrrell David (David Tyrrell began his career on Broadway in All Quiet on the Western Front, and acted as Coach Charlie Burr in the TV sitcom Mr. Peppers. He was on The Rifleman, and in It Happened at the World's Fair.)
Valentino Alberto
Valentino People (He died after complications from surgery at age 31. Approximately 100,000 people attended his funeral.)
Valentino Rudy (Rudy Valentino acted in the Sheik and other silent movies. About 100,000 mourners attended his funeral.)
Valentino Woman (In front of the Rudolf Valentino shrine. He was born in Italy as Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi.)
Van Dyke Truman (Truman Van Dyke was a silent-film star, whose thick Southern drawl ended his acting career with the arrival of talkies. He went into insurance, handling Hollywood entertainers.)
Vassar Queenie (Joseph Cawthorn acted in Gold Diggers of 1935, and The Great Ziegfeld. He was married to actress Queenie Vassar who appeared late in her career in A Primrose Path.)
Vejar Harry (Harry Vejar acted in 40 mostly-uncredited roles, in Scarface, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Citizen Kane, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
Von Karman Theodore
Von Karman Theodore2
Wallace George (George Wallace played Commander Cody in Radar Men From the Moon, and was in The Adventures of Kit Carson, Hopalong Cassidy, Forbidden Planet., Hill Street Blues, Remington Steele, and Minority Report.)
Wallace Jean (Jean Wallace was a teen model and showgirl, then acted in various B movies, had 2 suicide attempts, married and divorced Franchot Tone then Cornel Wilde, and had a tarantula and snakes as pets.)
Warren Fred (Fred Warren and his wife appeared in vaudeville, then he appeared in 66 films. Actor Rudy Valentino was married in his backyard.)
Waxman Franz (Franz Waxman scored Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, The Philadelphia Story, Suspicion, and To Have and Have Not, and earned oscars for Sunset Blvd and A Place in the Sun.)
Wayne Steve (Steve Wayne acted in 27 movies and TV including Bedtime For Bonzo, The Sands of Iwo Jima, and Stalag 17. He also did ads for Alka-Seltzer, Wheaties and Ocean Spray.)
Webb Clifton (Actor Clifton Webb was the father in the original Cheaper By The Dozen, and was in The Man Who Never Was, Laura, and the 1953 version of Titanic.)
Wendkos Paul (Best-known for his "Gidget" films and a prolific specialist in made-for-TV movies. Brought to Hollywood by Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn on the strength of The Burglar (1957), a low-budget film noir.)
Westmore Ernest (Make up artist Ernest Westmore earned an Oscar for an 'extraordinary accomplishment' in 1931 for Cimarron. The make-up Oscar did not appear until 1981.)
White David (Actor David White is best-known as Larry Tate on TV's 'Bewitched'. His son was on the jet that crashed over Lockerbie Scotland.)
White Francia (Francia White was an opera singer and actress. She helped launch the LA Civic Light Opera and played its first leading lady in 1938.)
White Mae (Mae White was comedian Carol Burnett's grandmother who raised her as a child, and the honoree of Carol's ear-tug at the end of her shows.)
White Marjorie (Marjorie Guthrie was one of the Winnipeg Kiddies, a troupe of child performers who toured Canada and the US, then teamed with Thelma Wolpa as 'The White Sisters'. Both women kept the name White after the act broke up. Early film roles included Happy Days, Sunny Side Up, Just Imagine and New Movietone Follies of 1930. Her last film was the Three Stooges short, Woman Haters (1934), in which she played the wife of Larry Fine. She died in a car accident.)
Whitier Mericos (Max Whittier started with the Union Pacific railroad, then went into oil drilling. Much of his land holdings became Beverly Hills, and other parcels were donated for orphanages.)
Williams Rozz (Rozz Williams is most famous for fronting the band Christian Death, then Shadow Project, though his main career project was the industrial, Premature Ejaculation. Some call him a pioneer of American Gothic and deathrock.)
Wolheim Louis (Louis Wolheim was a lumpy character actor with a broken nose, usually playing the heavy. He had a notable role as a sympathic soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front.)
Woodlawn Holly (Holly Woodlawn, born Haroldo Danhakl, was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Andy Warhol superstar. She is best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit song "Walk on the Wild Side". She adopted the name Holly from the heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and in 1969 added the surname from a sign she saw on an episode of I Love Lucy. At age fifteen, Woodlawn ran away from home and headed to NYC. She recalled in her memoir, A Low Life in High Heels: "At the age of 16, when most kids were cramming for trigonometry exams, I was turning tricks, living off the streets and wondering when my next meal was coming." By 1969, she had considered sex reassignment surgery, but decided against it. Woodlawn met Andy Warhol at the Factory, at a screening of Flesh (1968). Through him she met Jackie Curtis, who cast Woodlawn in her play Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit in the autumn of 1969. In October, she was given a bit role in Trash, but she so impressed director and screenwriter Paul Morrissey that he re-wrote it to give her a much larger role, playing the transgender girlfriend of a heroin addict. She was arrested in NYC after impersonating the wife of the French Ambassador to the UN, first taken to the Women's House of Detention then to a men's facility. In 1977 she appeared on Geraldo Rivera's talk show, before being jailed again in 1978 for violating terms of probation. By 1979, she had surrendered to a faltering career, cut her hair and moved back to her parents' home in Miami, while working as a busser at Benihana. In the mid-1980s, she became a featured club singer, and a star of various musicals and revues from the team of Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. During the 1990s, Woodlawn achieved a modest film comeback, and was in Transparent, the TV series about a transgender mother played by Jeffrey Tambor.)
Woodruff Eunice
Woodruff Kathleen
Woods Frank (Frank Woods was a screenwriter in the silent era, including co-writing 1915's The Birth of a Nation, with DW Griffith. He was also one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).)
Wray Fay (Fay Wray was a leading actress in The Wedding March, Thunderbolt, and Master of Men, but is most famous for co-starring in the original King Kong.)
Wray Fay (Another ADSLA host hiding in the Fay Wray tree. She was in the original King Kong movie.)
Wreaths
Yelchin Anton (Anton Yelchin was an American actor, best-known for playing Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond. He also voiced Clumsy Smurf in the Smurfs films. His film debut was in A Man Is Mostly Water, and early roles in both film and TV include A Time for Dancing, Delivering Milo, House of D, and Taken. Yelchin played Bobby Garfield in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), which is based on Stephen King's novel. In 2001, he played Dimitri Starodubov in Along Came a Spider, earning a Young Artist Award. After missing a rehearsal, Yelchin was found by friends just before midnight pinned between his Jeep and a brick pillar gate post at his home.)
York Duke (Duke York was a stuntman who played most of the monsters in the Three Stooges movies in the 40's, and King Kala in the first Flash Gordon series.)
Young Carleton Toy (Carleton S. Young and Noel Toy. Young appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Glenn Miller Story, The Last Hurrah, and The Horse Soldiers.)
Young Toy (Noel Toy was a fan-dancer in the 1940s in San Francisco clubs. She appeared in The Left Hand of God, Studio 57, four episodes of MASH, and SOB.)
Young Toy Carleton (As the newspaper editor in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Young delivered the classic line: This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.)
Garland Judy 3 (Judy Garland began performing in vaudeville as a child with her two older sisters. She played Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli. Other starring roles during this period included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade (1948), and Summer Stock (1950). She earned an oscar nomination for A Star Is Born (1954) and for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). The pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from the time she was a teenager and as an adult, she was plagued by alcohol and substance use disorders, ending in an accidental barbiturate overdose at age 47.)
Iacob Mihai (Mihai Iacob was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1955 and 1972. His 1961 film, Thirst, was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.)

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