Oakwood Chats by SpecialK by SpecialK

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Feb 13, 2019
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Feb 13, 2019
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Astaire Fred (Frederic Austerlitz, better known as actor/singer Fred Astaire is famous for dancing in musicals. 'People think I was born in top hat and tails.')

Boyd Stephen (William Millar, better known as actor Stephen Boyd, was opposite Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, and was in Fantastic Voyage)

Church (The church at Oakwood memorial park.)

Freas Frank (Frank Freas was an artist of bomber nose art in WWII, Mad Magazine, Astounding Science Fiction, hundreds of books and magzines, Queen's album New of the World, and the Skylab 1 insignia. Nominated 20 times, winning 10 Hugos Awards.)

Grahame Gloria (Gloria Grahame was in It's A Wonderful Life, and Oklahoma!. She was nominated for best supporting actress for Crossfire, and won for The Bad and the Beautiful.)

Hardman Shirley (Shirley Hardman was a top Roller Derby queen with 3 teams, leading the LA Thunderbirds to a championship in 1971. Accidentally drowned :-()

Hayden Russell (Russell Hayden was a western performer and helped develop Pioneertown in Southern California. He first worked as a camera assistant, then acted in many Hopalong Cassidy films as cowboy Lucky Jenkins.)

Jennings Al (Al Jennings was a short but big-talking cowboy, lawyer, poor gunslinger, ineffective train robber, jailbird, evangelist, failed politician, author, and actor in silent westerns. Dan Duryea played him in 1951's Al Jennings of Oklahoma.)

Jergens Adele (Adele Jergins was Miss World's Fairest at the 1939 World's Fair, and a Rockette named the Number One Showgirl in NY City. Acting included Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. Married Glenn 'The Amazing Colossal Man' Langan.)

Montana Montie (Montie Montana was a rodeo trick rider, actor, stuntman, and cowboy now in the Pro Rodeo HOF. He was in 60 Rose Parades. He (and horse) was a contestant on You Bet Your Life.)

Oakwood Entrance

Reeves Richard (Richard Reeves was a character actor in Adventures of Superman, I Love Lucy, Maverick, I Dream of Jeannie, Wagon Train, Untouchables, Burke's Law, Batman, and Man From UNCLE.)

Rogers Ginger (Virginia Rogers, nicknamed Ginger, was Fred Astaire's frequent dancing partner in musicals. She won a best actress oscar for the drama Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman.)

Rowland Adele (Adele Rowland was an actress and singer. She was a soprano known for her bubbly personality, and was a standout in musical comedy productions from 1904, specializing in "story songs". She was best known for her rendition of the song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag", which she introduced in 1915 in the Broadway production of Her Soldier Boy. She had a career of small parts in seven movies 1941-50. First husband was actor Charlie Ruggles 1914-1916, and she later married actor Conway Tearle.)

Snyder Ted (Ted Snyder was a composer, known for Sheik of Araby and Who's Sorry Now? He gave Irving Berlin his first break in 1909, hiring him as a staff pianist for his music publishing company.)

Tree Cutters (Tree trimmers thought I was spying on them.)

Victor Henry (Henry Victor was the circus strongman in 1932's Freaks, and the dumb Gestapo Captain Schultz in To Be or Not to Be.)

Walcott Gregory

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