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110424-1021HomeOfPeaceMaus Home of Peace mausoleum.
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110424-1022SLWarner Samuel Louis 'Sam' Warner was a film producer and co-founder and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios.
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110424-1023SLWarner He died one day before the premier of the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer, which as produced by WB.
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110424-1024HarryWarner Harry Warner was the Warner Bros president until 1956.
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110424-1025EdgarFMagnin Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, a Jewish leader for 69 years, delivered the inaugural prayer for President Nixon in 1969. He became the rabbi of Congregation B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles in 1915, and performed many "Hollywood" services.
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110424-1030ShempHoward Samuel Horowitz, better known as Shemp Howard, one of the Three Stooges.
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110424-1038CurlyHoward Another Stooge, Jerome Lester Horowitz, known as Curly Howard.
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110424-1041CurlyHoward Some of his sound effects, such as 'woo, woo, woo' and ]nyuk, nyuk,nyuk' were adlibs.
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110424-1044CurlyHoward Soitenly! He died from a stroke.
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110424-1045AbrahamSpiegel Abraham Spiegel survived 4 concentration camps, and built a new life after the war in the US. He was a successful businessman and philanthropist, and was on the 1984 US Olympic committee.
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110424-1046MarkSandrich Mark Sandrich, born Mark Rex Goldstein, is most famous for directing many of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Holiday Inn with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby.
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110424-1050JackWarner Jack Warner was a film executive as president and driving force of Warner Bros. Studios.
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110424-1053JackWarner He was viewed as a contradictory and enigmatic figure. Although he was a Republican, he encouraged film projects that promoted the agenda of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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110821-6299JerryMayer Jerry Mayer was a deep sea diver, owned a salvage company, a city railroad company, a brass foundry and a steel company before joining his brother Louis's movie business, eventually becoming a studio manager.
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110821-6304BurtonBaskin Burton Baskin was half of the Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream business.
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110821-6309KurtNeumann Kurt Neumann directed 68 mostly B-grade movies including Tarzan and the She-Devil, and Rocketship X-M. His biggest hit was 1958's The Fly, though he died just after its premiere and before the general release.
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110821-6311HarryEinstein Harry Einstein was a comedian best known as Parkyakarkus, a Greek luncheonette owner who mangled the English language. From 1936 to 1939, he was a featured regular on Al Jolson's radio show.
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110821-6316DaveBerman David 'Davie the Jew' Berman was a mobster in Iowa, New York City, and Minneapolis. He was also one of the pioneers of gambling in Las Vegas, and a partner with Bugsy Siegel at the Flamingo Hotel.
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110821-6318SusanBerman Susan Berman was a reporter and author, and daughter of mobster Dave Berman. She wrote extensively about her late realization of her father's place in a criminal empire, and was murdered execution style on Christmas Eve.
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110821-6321RudolphMayer Rudolph Mayer was the black sheep of the Mayer family. He swindled investors in worthless land deals, and sold stock in a fictitious movie studio, among other things.
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110821-6327EphraimCarter Boake Carter was a national news commentator in the 1930s and early 1940s. He rose to fame covering the Lindbergh kidnapping trial. Later, his commentaries were controversial, and he was almost forgotten when he died of a heart attack.
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110821-6345LouisMayer Louis B Mayer was the head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio.
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110821-6350MackGordon Mack Gordon was a composer and lyricist, nominated for best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years from 1940 to 1945, winning for You'll Never Know.
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130210-4807JosephKaufmann Joseph Kauffman was one of many to die in WWI. His parents sued a life insurance co which refused to pay on Joseph's policy, citing the "war clause". Later, a memorial was erected in nearby Temple City by oilman Walter Temple - near Kauffman Avenue.
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130210-4809BehrendtFamily Ivan Behrendt Kahn was an amateur boxer, a member of the California Coast Artillery in WWI, and a director who started the Kahn's Kid Komedies in the 20s.
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130210-4810IvanKahn Ivan Kahn co-wrote 1940's Star Dust, starring Linda Darnell and John Payne. He was a talent scout for Daryl F Zanuck from 1938 until his death.
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130210-4815JackSkirball Jack Skirball was a rabbi in the 20s and early 30s before getting into movie producing. As manager of Education Films he produced the first movie showing the actual birth of a baby. His credits include Hitchcock's Saboteur, and Shadow of A Doubt.
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130210-4816SkirballRow He invested wisely in the Vacation Village near San Diego, and later funded LA's Skirball Cultural Center, and the Jack H. Skirball Middle School.
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150215-3563RuthLouise Ruth Louise was the first female photographer active in Hollywood, and ran MGM's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. Subjects included Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, and Norma Shearer. Ruth retired to marry director Leigh Jason in 1930 and died from complications after childbirth in 1940. Brother was director Mark Sandrich, cousin was actress Carmel Myers.
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150215-3565CarmelMyers Carmel Myers was an actress primarily in silent movies, staring with a bit part in DW Griffith's Intolerance. She appeared in All Night, Broadway After Dark, and in her most famous role of the Egyptian vamp Iras in 1925's Ben-Hur. After her own TV show in 1951, she had a career in real estate and her perfume distribution company.
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150215-3567AbeFried Abe Fried was a cinematographer from 1919, and he used the name Conrad Wells from 1927. He and cinematographers George Eastman, Otto Jordan, and Ben Frankel were killed when their camera planes collided while filming "Such Men Are Dangerous". Six others, including the film's director, were also killed.
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150215-3569MorrisSchlank Morris R. Schlank started in the in Hollywood costume rental business, then was a "poverty row" producer, turning out 122 silent films until 1930, for his main market of third-run rural movie theaters. 1932's Shop Angel was his first talkie. Actors included has-beens and never-beens, and sets were frequently recycled.
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150215-3573SarahVasen Dr. Sarah Vasen was the first Jewish female doctor in Los Angeles and the first superintendent and resident doctor of Kaspare Cohn Hospital, which became Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She married Saul Frank in 1912, and gave up her private practice in 1915. She took an interest in the community and helped organize the first religious school for the city's Jewish children.
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150215-3579LouisBurston Louis Burston established Vim Comedy Film Company in Jacksonville, Florida in 1915, making over 200 slapstick one-reelers. Later founding King Bee Films in Hollywood, he produced The Silent Mystery (1918), The Hawk's Trail (1919), Forget Me Not (1922), and Desire (1923). He died in a auto-train accident.
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150215-3586LeoForbstein Leo Forbstein was a musical director and orchestra conductor and worked on 550 projects during a twenty-year period. He headed the symphony orchestra at (then) Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. At Warner Bros, Forbstein and Erich Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Captain Blood in 1936, and in 1937 he was nominated for The Charge of the Light Brigade and won for Anthony Adverse. He was nominated again in 1938 for The Life of Emile Zola.
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150215-3588JosephWeintraub Joseph Weintraub, as Joe Traub, was a comedy screenwriter for The Death Kiss (1932), a lighthearted mystery featuring Bela Lugosi. ALso wrote Keystone Hotel (1935) , The Merry Wives of Reno (1934), Romance of the West (1935), King of the Islands (1936), and the Joe E. Brown vehicle Earthworm Tractors (1936).
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Clayton Lou
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Kamen Milton
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Laemmle Carl
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Laemmle Carla
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