The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols

by Parish, James Robert

(Reno, Okla.)

  Erik Rhodes

  Elmira Cemetery

  (Elmira, N.Y.)

  Hal Roach Sr.

  Elmwood Cemetery

  (Charlotte, N.C.)

  Randolph Scott

  Emanuel Cemetery

  (Wethersfield, Conn.)

  Sophie Tucker

  Eternal Hills Memorial Park

  (Oceanside, Calif.)

  Merritt Bohn, Lloyd Haynes, Stuart Heisler

  Eternal Valley Memorial Park

  (Newhall, Calif.)

  Noble Johnson

  Evergreen Cemetery

  (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

  John Bunny, Bill (Bojangles)

  Robinson

  Evergreen Cemetery

  (Colorado Springs, Colo.)

  Pat Brady, Ruth Etting

  Evergreen Cemetery

  (Oakland, Calif.)

  Allen (Farina)

  Hoskins

  Evergreen Cemetery/Crematory

  (Los Angeles, Calif.)

  Eddie (Rochester)

  Anderson, Matthew (Stymie)

  Beard, Louise Beavers

  Fairhaven Memorial Park

  (Santa Ana, Calif.)

  Herbert Dunn, Pierce Lyden

  Fairmount Cemetery

  (Denver, Colo.)

  Donald Meek

  Fairview Cemetery

  (Pen Argyl, Pa.)

  Jayne Mansfield

  Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum

  (Hartsdale, N.Y.)

  Richard Barthelmess, Irene Bordoni, Connee Boswell, Adolph Caesar, Mady Christians, Joan Crawford, Lya De Putti, Judy Garland, Jackie (Moms)

  Mabley, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Maxwell, Ona Munson, Basil Rathbone, Paul Robeson, Diana Sands, Preston Sturges, Ed Sullivan, Conrad Veidt

  Ferndale Cemetery

  (Johnstown, N.Y.)

  Broderick Crawford

  Fernhill Memorial Gardens

  (Stuart, Fla.)

  Vaughn Monroe

  Flushing Cemetery

  (Flushing, N.Y.)

  Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong, May Robson, Hazel Scott, Ernest Truex

  Forest Cemetery

  (Circleville, Ohio)

  Ted Lewis

  Forest Home Cemetery

  (Milwaukee, Wis.)

  Alfred Lunt

  Forest Lawn—Cypress

  (Cypress, Calif.)

  Angelo Florez

  Forest Lawn—Hollywood Hills

  (Los Angeles, Calif.)

  Iris Adrian, Philip Ahn, Don Alvarado, Leon Ames, Morey Amsterdam, Robert Armstrong, Gene Autry, Lloyd Bacon, Lucille Ball, Harry Barris, Donald (Red) Barry, Judith Barsi, Clyde Beatty, Noah Beery Jr., Noah Beery Sr., Ralph Bellamy, Willie Bobo, Truman Bradley, Pamela Britton, Edgar Buchanan, Smiley Burnette, Godfrey Cambridge, Joan Caulfield, Harry V. Cheshire, Ray Collins, William Conrad, Bert Convy, Jerome Cowan, Gary Crosby, Benjamin Sherman (Scatman) Crothers, Bette Davis, Brad Davis, Gail Davis, Reginald Denny, Vernon Dent, Tamara De Treaux, Edward Dmytryk, Jimmie Dodd, Dan Duryea, Richard Farnsworth, Marty Feldman, Robert Florey, Robert Francis, Reginald Gardiner, Freeman Gosden, Jon Hall, John Hancock, George (Gabby) Hayes, Marlene Hazlett, Wanda Hendrix, Rex Ingram (actor), Dennis James, Joseph Kearns, Buster Keaton, Ernie Kovacs, Mia Kovacs, Otto Kruger, Mike Lally, Fritz Lang, Charles Laughton, Stan Laurel, Mary Dean Lauria, Fritz Leiber, Virginia Leiber, Liberace, Felix Locher, Julie London, Harriet MacGibbon, Marjorie Main, Joseph Lockard (Lock) Martin Jr., Strother Martin, Frank Mayo, Ralph Meeker, Sam Melville, Thomas Mitchell, Alvy Moore, Timothy Patrick Murphy, Burt Mustin, John Myhers, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Rick (Ricky) Nelson, David Oliver, Paul Panzer, Charles Pierce, Harold (Snub) Pollard, Paton Price, Freddie Prinze, George Raft, Amanda Randolph, Lillian Randolph, Carl Benton Reid, Hugh Riley (Reilly), Jason Robards Sr., Chuck Roberson, Lynne Roberts, Dar Robinson, Joe E. Ross, Sabu, Boris Sagal, George Savalas, Telly Savalas, Reta Shaw, W. Phillips Smalley, Jack Soo, Olan Soulé, Gracie Stafford, Bob Steele, George Stevens, McLean Stevenson, Fred Stone, Glenn Strange, William Talman, Vic Tayback, Bobby Troup, Charles Trowbridge, Forrest Tucker, Lee Van Cleef, Jimmy Wakely, Eddy C. Waller, Jack Webb, Bill Williams, Rhys Williams, Marie Wilson, George Zucco

  Forest Lawn—Long Beach

  (Long Beach, Calif.)

  Luana Patten

  Forest Lawn Memorial Park

  (Glendale, Calif.)

  James Abbott, Art Acord, Norman Ainsley, Robert Alda, Ross Alexander, Gracie Allen, Elvia Allman, Astrid Allwyn, Kenneth Anderson, Lona Andre, LaVerne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Poupée Andriot, George Archainbaud, Roscoe Ates, Lois Austin, Lynn Baggett, Art Baker, Edwin (Eddie) Baker, Suzan Ball, Theda Bara, Binnie Barnes, T. Roy Barnes, Jack Barry, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Rex Bell, Cosmo Bellew, Enid Bennett, Richard Bennett, Harry Beresford, Abby Berlin, Curtis Bernhardt, Joe Besser, Claude Binyon, Mary Blackford, J. Stuart Blackton, Marie Blake (Blossom MacDonald Rock), Olive Blakeney, Clara Blandick, Joan Blondell, Clara Blore, Eric Blore, Monte Blue, Virginia True Boardman, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Boland, May Boley, Ward Bond, Olive Borden, Danny Borzage, Frank Borzage, William Borzage, Hobart Bosworth, Clara Bow, William Boyd, Charles J. Brabin, Edmund Breese, Betty Bronson, Clarence Brown, Joe E. Brown, Johnny Mack Brown, Kay Brown, Raymond Brown, Harold S. Bucquet, John Bunny Jr., Helen Burgess, Bob (Bazooka) Burns, George Burns, Francis X. Bushman Sr., Ralph Byrd, William Christy Cabanne, Judy Canova, Eduardo Cansino Sr., Vernon Cansino, Sue Carol, Jeanne Carpenter, Nat (Nathan) Carr, John Carroll, Jack Carson, Emma Carus, Burr Caruth, William Castle, Elsie Cavanna, George Chandler, Lon Chaney Sr., Spencer Charters, Charley Chase, Noble (Kid) Chissell, Berton Churchill, Buddy Clark, Frank Clark (Clarke), George Cleveland, Elmer Clifton, Andy Clyde, David Clyde, Joseph Cohn, Nat (King) Cole, William Collier Sr., Russ Columbo, Charles J. Conrad, Jack Conway, Ellen Corby, Herbert Corthell, George Cox, Edward Coxen, James Craig, Kathryn Crawford, Laird Cregar, Donald Crisp, George Cukor, Zara Cully, Robert (Bob) Cummings, Lester Cuneo, Michael Curtiz, Dan Dailey, Dorothy Dale, Dorothy Dandridge, Mickey Daniels Jr., Jane Darwell, Dorothy Davenport, Delmer Daves, Jim Davis, Mildred Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Dawn, Jack Dawson, Julia Dean, Eddie De Lange, Cyril Delevanti, Jose De Vega Jr., Alan Dinehart Sr., Walt Disney, Richard Dix, George Dolenz, Fifi D’Orsay, Donald (Don) Douglas, Gordon Douglas, Billie Dove, James H. Doyle, Steve Drake, Louise Dresser, Marie Dressier, Rosetta Duncan, Taylor Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Minta Durfee, Junior Durkin, Bonnie Earle, William P. S. Earle, Jay Eaton, Alan Edwards, Sally Eilers, Dick Elliott, Julian Eltinge, Fern Emmett, Leon Errol, Dot Farley, William Farnum, James Fawcett, Al Ferguson, Helen Ferguson, Romaine Fielding, W. C. Fields, Larry Fine, Robert L. Fiske, George Fitzmaurice, Errol Flynn, Harrison Ford (1884–1957), Lewis R. Foster, Wallace W. Fox, Ivor Francis, Nell Franzen, James Fraser, Charles K. French, George B. French, Helen French, Joel Friedkin, Dwight Frye, Clark Gable, Jack Ganzhorn, Bud Geary, Paul Gerson, John Gilbert, Claude Gillingwater Jr., Tom Gilson, Hermione Gingold, Gus Glassmire, Huntley Gordon, Jetta Goudal, Louis C. Graf, Charles (Charlie) Grapewin, Alfred E. Green, Harrison Greene, Sydney Greenstreet, James Grier, Paul Guilfoyle, Frank S. Hagney (Hagny), Alan Hale Sr., Charles D. (Charlie) Hall, Charles Halton, Hale Hamilton, Ann Harding, Sam Hardy, Jean Harlow, Lillian Harmer, Gretchen Hartman, Paul Harvey, Harry Hayden, Sam Hearn, Mary Henderson, Holmes E. Herbert, Jean Hersholt, Louis Jean Heydt, Don Hicks, Fay Holden, Alice Hollister, James W. Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Esther Howard, Peter Howard, Ted Howard, William K. Howard, Jobyna Howland, Olive Hughes, Lloyd Hughes, John Hyams, Rex Ingram (director), Jill Ireland, Carolyn Jones, F. Richard Jones, Rupert Julian, Bert Kalmar Jr., Peter Kanellos, William Keighley, Erle C. Kenton, Doris Kenyon, Jack Warren Kerrigan, Ted Knight, Clarence Kolb, Henry Kolker, Alan Ladd, Ethan Laidlaw, David Landau, Carole Landis, Nora Lane, Rosemary Lane, Perc Launders, Jeanne Lawrence, Ivan Lebedeff, Robert Z. Leonard, Mitchell J. Lewis, Grover Ligon (Liggon), E. K. Lincoln, Lucien Littlefield, Doris Lloyd, Frank Lloyd, Harold Lloyd Jr., Harold Lloyd Sr., Jeane
tte Loff, Arthur Loft, Carole Lombard, Tom London, Theodore A. Lorch, Anita Louise, Ernst Lubitsch, Freeman Lusk, Nola Luxford, Jeanette MacDonald, Wallace MacDonald, Charles E. Mack, Joe (Joseph) Mack, Kenneth MacKenna, Mary MacLaren, Douglas MacLean, Fred Malatesta, Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Mann, Paula Marr, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, LeRoy Mason, Sydney (Sidney) Mason, Doris May, Ken Maynard, Mike Mazurki, Gladys McConnell, Marie McDonald, Frank McGrath, Lawrence David McKeen Sr., Lawrence (Sunny) McKeen Jr., Victor McLaglen, Norman Z. McLeod, Blanche Mehaffey, Beryl Mercer, Harold Miller, James Millican, Edwin Mills, Luke Mims, Vincente Minnelli, Art Mix, Tom Mix, Robert J. Montgomery, Clayton Moore, Bert Moorehouse, Polly Moran, Bert Morris, Harry Myers, Alla Nazimova, Bernard Nedell, Kolia Negin, Frank Nelson, Harold Nelson, Fred Niblo, George Nichols (Nicholls) Jr., William Nigh, Jack Oakie, Merle Oberon, Tom O’Brien, George Offerman Jr., Charles Ogle, Edna May Oliver, Gertrude Olmstead, Moroni Olsen, Anne O’Neal, Robert O’Neill, Kasia Orzazewski, Lyn Osborn, Maria Ouspenskaya, Monroe Owsley, Lilli Palmer, Franklin Pangborn, Manuel Paris, Flora Parker (Mrs. Carter DeHaven), James Parrott, Joe Penner, Voltaire Perkins, Susan Peters, Mary Philips, Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford, Francis Pierlot, Lincoln Plummer, Lon Poff, Harry A. Pollard, Dick Powell, Richard Powell, Constance Purdy, John Qualen, Anne Ramsey, Addison (Jack) Randall, Arthur Rankin, Albert Ray, Charles Ray, Gene Raymond, Jack Raymond, George Reeves, Wallace Reid Sr., Addison Richards, Keith Richards, Cleo Ridgely, William Riggs, Billie Ritchie, Lyda Roberti, Al Roberts, Florence Roberts, Clarence Rock, Albert (Al) Rockett, Walter Rodgers, Ruth Roland, Sydney Romero, Henry Roquemore, Bodil Rosing, Adrian Rosley, J. Walter Ruben, Charles (Charlie) Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles, Evangeline Russell, Roy Russing, Tony Russo, S. Z. (Cuddles) Sakall, Charles (Chic) Sale, Thelma Salter, Paul Scardon, Harry Schenck, Victor Schertzinger, Violet Schram, Mabel Julienne Scott, Scott Seaton, Ruth Selwyn, Ethel Shannon, Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, S. Sylvan Simon, Russell Simpson, Red Skelton, Edward Sloman, Albert E. Smith, J. Lewis Smith, Lucille Smith, Marguerite Snow, Hanley Stafford, John M. Stahl, Lionel Stander, Will Stanton, Frederick Stephani, James Stephenson, Landers Stevens, Robert Stevenson, Anita Stewart, James Stewart, Arthur Stone, Robert Strong, Robert Taylor, Fred Thomson, Thunderbird (Chief), Thundercloud (Chief) (Victor Daniels), Lawrence Tibbett, Sammee Tong, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Spencer Tracy, Leonard Trainor, Henry Travers, Emerson Treacy, Andrew Trimble, Ben Turpin, Lurene Tuttle, Woody S. Van Dyke II, Hailstorm Van Nov (Chief), Ada Mae Vaughn, Bobby Vernon, Frederick Vogeding, Theodor (Theodore) Von Eltz, Veola Vonn, George Waggner, Charles D. Waldron, Nella Walker, Louise Chapman Wallace, Morgan Wallace, Ethel Waters, Roland West, James Whale, Theresa (Tess) Wheeler, Lee (Lasses) White, Gayne Whitman, Mary Wiggins, Fred M. Wilcox, Guy Wilkerson, Earle Williams, Robert Williams, Dorothy Wilson, Claire Windsor, Grant Withers, Sam Wood, Georgia Woodthorpe, Robert Woolsey, Hank Worden, Robert Wyler, William Wyler, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Barton Yarborough, Robert Young, Joe Yule

  Forestdale Cemetery

  (Helena, Mont.)

  Myrna Loy

  Forreston Cemetery

  (Forreston, Tex.)

  Denver Pyle

  Fort Bragg Military Base

  (Fort Bragg, N.C.)

  Martha Raye

  Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

  (San Diego, Calif.)

  Irving Bacon, Hal Craig, Richard Garrick, Reed Howes, Jacques Jaccard, John Sylvester Peters, Richard (Dick) Wessel, Mack Williams

  Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery

  (San Antonio, Tex.)

  Glenn Corbett

  The Friends Cemetery

  (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

  Montgomery Clift

  Glen Abbey Memorial Park

  (Bonita, Calif.)

  Jack Dalton (Curly) Hogg

  Glen Haven Memorial Park

  (San Fernando, Calif.)

  Jeffrey Hunter, Ella Raines, Vera-Ellen

  Glenwood Cemetery

  (Houston, Tex.)

  Howard Hughes, Gene Tierney Graceland

  (Memphis, Tenn.—private estate) Elvis Presley

  Graceland Cemetery

  (Chicago, Ill.)

  Granville Bates

  Grand View Memorial Park

  (Glendale, Calif.)

  Madge Blake, Verna Felton, Pauline Frederick, Harry Langdon, Richard Long, Lafe McKee, Edna Purviance, Sir Guy Standing, Chill Wills, Clara Kimball Young

  Green Hills Cemetery

  (Martinsburg, W. Va.)

  Robert Barrat

  Green Hills Cemetery

  (Waynesville, N.C.)

  Gig Young

  Greenmount Cemetery

  (Baltimore, Md.)

  Margaret Seddon

  Greenridge Cemetery

  (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)

  Monty Woolley

  Greenwood Cemetery

  (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

  William S. Hart, Florence La Badie, Frank Morgan, Edward R. Murrow

  Greenwood Cemetery

  (Clarksville, Tenn.)

  Frank Sutton

  Greenwood Cemetery

  (Ft. Worth, Tex.)

  Roy Roberts

  Greenwood Cemetery

  (Hot Springs, Ark.)

  Chester H. Lauck

  Greenwood Cemetery

  (New Orleans, La.)

  Emile Meyer

  Greenwood Memorial Park

  (San Diego, Calif.)

  Victor Buono, Walter E. Bystrom

  Grove Hill Memorial Park

  (Dallas, Tex.)

  Henry Calvin

  Harbor Lawn-Mount Olive Cemetery

  (Costa Mesa, Calif.)

  Kathryn Card

  Haven of the Rest Pioneer Cemetery

  (Julian, Calif.)

  Sig (Siegfried) Ruman (Rumann)

  Hebron Cemetery

  (Staunton, Va.)

  Larry Shue

  Highland Cemetery

  (Ft. Mitchell, Ky.)

  Una Merkel

  Highland Cemetery

  (Wichita, Kans.)

  Sidney Toler

  Highland Lawn Cemetery

  (Terre Haute, Ind.)

  Valeska Suratt

  Hillcrest Memorial Park

  (Dallas, Tex.)

  Greer Garson

  Hillside Memorial Park

  (Los Angeles, Calif.)

  Jack Benny, Henry Bergman, Ben Blue, Sorrell Booke, Richard Brooks, Susan Cabot, Eddie Cantor, Jeff Chandler, Selma Diamond, Lorne Greene, Moe Howard, David Janssen, George Jessel, Al Jolson, Michael Landon, Sheldon Leonard, Mary Livingstone, Hal March, Vic Morrow, David Opatoshu, Paul Richards, Harry Richman, Edward Lee Robin, Billy Sands, Dan Seymour, Dick Shawn, Dinah Shore

  Hollywood Memorial Park

  ([now known as Hollywood Forever] Hollywood, Calif.)

  Louis Adlon, Renée Adoree, Frank Alexander, Lester Allen, Murray Alper, Gertrude Astor, Agnes Ayres, William Beaudine, Tony Beckley, Monta Bell, Herman Bing, Mel Blanc, Lilian Bond, Lovyss Bradley, Felix Bressart, Coral Browne, Peter Bruni, Louis Calhern, Joseph Cawthorn, Charles Chaplin Jr., Al Christie, Gertrude Claire, Iron Eyes Cody, William H. Crane, James Cruze, Irving Cummings, Ruth Sinclair Cummings, Cass Daley, Viola Dana, Karl Dane, Bebe Daniels, Marion Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, William DeMille, Gloria Dickson, John Francis Dillon, B. Reeves (Breezy) Eason Jr., B. Reeves Eason Sr., Nelson Eddy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Maude Fealy, Flora Finch, Peter Finch, Victor Fleming, Sidney A. Franklin, Alex Frazer, Janet Gaynor, Vera Gordon, Joan Hackett, John Hamilton, Mildred Harris, Etta Hawkins, Alan Howard Hirst, Darla Hood, Boothe Howard, H. Bruce Humberstone, John Huston, Roscoe Karns, Kurt Katch, Frank Keenan, Zoltan Korda, Harry Lachman, Arthur Lake, Barbara La Marr, Richard LaMarr, Florence Lawrence, Lillian Lawrence, Henry Lehrman, Elmo Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Celia Lovsky, John Lund, Ben Lyon, Richard Maibaum, Edward Mann, Jayne Mansfield (headstone only), Tully Marshall, Joe May, Archie Mayo, Adolphe Menjou, Anthony (Tony) Merlo, Charles B. Middleton, Winston Miller, James Irving Mitchell, Ad
rian Morris, Paul Muni, Nadajan, Mary Nolan, Gertrude Norman, Frank Overton, Helen Parrish, Al Pearce, Barbara Pepper, Joan Perry, Eleanor Powell, Tyrone Power Jr., Virginia Rappe, Ruth Renick, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Theodore Roberts, Edward G. Robinson Jr., Arthur H. Rosson, Helene Rosson, Richard (Dick) Rosson, Tom Santschi, Joseph Schildkraut, Rudolph Schildkraut, Vito Scotti, Rolfe Sedan, Almira Sessions, Peggy Shannon, Robert Shayne, Vera Sisson, Florence Smythe, Vladimir Sokoloff, Luther Standing Bear (Chief), Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, Constance Talmadge, Natalie Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Eva Tanguay, Estelle Taylor, William Desmond Taylor, Verree Teasdale, Nick Thompson, Tamara Toumanova, Minerva Urecal, Alberto Valentino, Rudolph Valentino, Truman Van Dyke, Queenie Vassar, Harry John Vejar, Dorothy Vernon, Michael Visaroff, Jean Wallace, Henry B. Walthall, Carrie Clarke Ward, Robert Warwick, Bobs Watson, Clifton Webb, Joe Weber, Jules White, Louis Wolheim, Duke York

  Holy Cross Cemetery

  (Calumet City, Ill.)

  Gene Krupa

  Holy Cross Cemetery-Mausoleum

  (Culver City, Calif.)

  Frank Albertson, Sara Allgood, Ramsay Ames, Richard Arlen, Henry Armetta, Mary Astor, Joan Banks, Sally Blane, Ray Bolger, Charles Boyer, Scott Brady, Keefe Brasselle, James Broderick, John Candy, Macdonald Carey, Nick Castle, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jackie Coogan, Charles Correll, Bing Crosby, Joan Davis, Dennis Day, Pedro De Cordoba, Johnny Desmond, Constance Dowling, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Vince Edwards, Richard Egan, John Farrow, Joe Flynn, John Ford, Mary Frann, James (Jimmy) Gleason, Bonita Granville, Gilda Gray, Jack Haley, Henry Hathaway, Allison Hayes, Rita Hayworth, Hugh Herbert, José Iturbi, Rita Johnson, Spike Jones, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Paul Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Henry King, Mario Lanza, Jack LaRue, Dixie Lee, Margaret Lindsay, Gene Lockhart, Frank Lovejoy, Bela Lugosi, William (Bill) Lundigan, Fred MacMurray, Marion Martin, Leo McCarey, Stephen McNally, Audrey Meadows, Carlotta Monti, Alan Mowbray, Edmond O’Brien, Pat O’Brien, Barney Oldfield, George Pal, Pat Paterson, ZaSu Pitts, Richard (Dick) Purcell, Alejandro Rey, Hayden Rorke, Rosalind Russell, Gia Scala, Dorothy Sebastian, Mack Sennett, Sharon Tate, Arleen Whelan, Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young

  Holy Cross Cemetery

  (San Diego, Calif.)

  William Gargan, Charlotte Henry

  Holy Sepulcher Cemetery

  (Costa Mesa, Calif.)

  Ruby Keeler

  Holy Sepulcher Cemetery

  (Rochester, N.Y.)