The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols
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Louise Brooks
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery
(Worth, Ill.)
Helen Morgan
Home of Peace Memorial Park
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Al Freeman, Jerome (Curly) Howard, Samuel (Shemp) Howard, Kurt Neumann, Viola Adele Porter, Mark Sandrich, Bernard Stone, Charles Vidor
Inglewood Park Cemetery
(Inglewood, Calif.)
Edgar Bergen, Paul Bern, William Duncan, Louise Fazenda, Edward (Hoot) Gibson, Betty Grable, Robin Harris, Edith Johnson, Allan (Rocky) Lane, Lucille La Verne, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sharon Lynn, Edith Matthison, Frank Reicher, Cesar Romero, William (Buckwheat) Thomas
Kensico Cemetery
(Valhalla, N.Y.)
Glenn Anders, Wendy Barrie, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Tommy Dorsey, Danny Kaye, Guy Kibbee, Pauline Lord, Edwin S. Porter, Florence Reed, Henry Stephenson, Blanche Yurka
Ketchum Cemetery
(Ketchum, Idaho) Margaux Hemingway
Lake View Cemetery
(Cleveland, Ohio) Gloria Pressman
Lake View Cemetery
(Seattle, Wash.)
Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee
Lincoln Cemetery
(Lincoln, Nebr.)
Sandy Dennis
Linn Grove Cemetery
(Greeley, Colo.)
Mary Kornman
Loma Vista Memorial Park
(Fullerton, Calif.)
Andy Russell
Long Island National Cemetery
(Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.)
Helen Kane
Long Ridge Cemetery
(Stamford, Conn.)
Gilda Radner
Long Ridge Congregational Church
(Stamford, Conn.)
Kenny Delmar
Lorraine Park Cemetery
(Baltimore, Md.)
Mildred Natwick
Los Angeles National Cemetery
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Royal Dano, Jack Holt, Dean Paul Martin Jr., Ben Taggart
Louisville Evergreen Cemetery
(Louisville, Ky.)
Rags Ragland
Machpelah Cemetery
(Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.)
Harry Houdini
Maple Grove Cemetery
(Horsehead, N.Y.)
William E. (Babe) Lawrence
Melrose Abbey Cemetery/Mausoleum
(Anaheim, Calif.)
Robert M. Fellows
Memorial Park Cemetery (Skokie, Ill.) Robert Reed
Metairie Cemetery
(New Orleans, La.)
Marguerite Clark, Louis Prima
Molinos Cemetery
(Los Molinos, Calif.)
Leo B. Gorcey
Monroe Cemetery
(Lexington, Mass.)
Sonny Tufts
Mount Carmel Cemetery
(Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.)
Jacob P. Adler, George Tobias
Mount Hebron Cemetery
(Flushing, Queens, N.Y.)
Jack Gilford, Maurice Schwartz
Mount Hebron Cemetery
(Montclair, N.J.)
Shirley Booth
Mount Hope Cemetery
(San Diego, Calif.)
John (Jack) Dailey
Mount Olivet Cemetery
(Saginaw, Mich.)
Tim McCoy (Col.), Tom Tyler
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
(Hawthorne, N.Y.)
Lillian Roth
Mount Sinai Memorial Park
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herschel Bernardi, Georgia Brown, Virginia Christine, Lee J. Cobb, Norman Fell, Totie Fields, Billy Halop, Bern (Bernard) Hoffman, Fred Holliday, Lou Krugman, Ross Martin, Phil Silvers, Bobby Van
Mount Tabor United Methodist Church
(Crestwood, Ky.)
D. W. Griffith
Mount Vernon Cemetery
(Philadelphia, Pa.)
John Barrymore
Mount Wollaston Cemetery
(Quincy, Mass.)
Billy De Wolfe
National Cemetery
(West Point, N.Y.)
Glenda Farrell
Newton Cemetery
(Newton, Mass.)
Josephine Hull
North Kern Cemetery
(Delano, Calif.)
Dack Rambo, Dirk Rambo
Oak Bluff Memorial Park
(Port Neches, Tex.)
Tex Ritter
Oak City Cemetery
(Bainbridge, Ga.)
Miriam Hopkins
Oak Grove Cemetery
(Nacogdoches, Tex.)
Helen Vinson
Oak Hill Cemetery
(Ballard, Calif.)
Edie Sedgwick
Oak Hill Cemetery
(Glendale, Ohio) Peg Entwistle
Oak Hill Cemetery
(Nyack, N.Y.)
Helen Hayes
Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens
(Noblesville, Ind.)
Frances Farmer
Oakland Cemetery
(Ft. Dodge, Iowa) Lili Damita
Oakwood Cemetery
(Ft. Worth, Tex.)
Adrienne Ames
Oakwood Cemetery
(Silver City, N.C.)
Frances Bavier
Oakwood Memorial Park
(Chatsworth, Calif.)
Fred Astaire, Stephen Boyd, Bob Crane, John Epper, Gloria Grahame, Russell Hayden, Monte Montana, Ginger Rogers, Robert F. Simon
Odd Fellow Cemetery
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Billy Gilbert
Old Cemetery
(Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Kay Kyser
Old Greenwood Cemetery
(Weatherford, Tex.)
Mary Martin
Old St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
(Chestertown, Md.)
Tallulah Bankhead
Our Lady of Mercies Cemetery
(Miami, Fla.)
Jackie Gleason
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church
(Carrollton, Ga.)
Susan Hayward
Pacific View Memorial Park
(Newport Beach, Calif.)
Jeanne Cagney, William Cagney, John Wayne
Palm Memorial Gardens
(Las Vegas, Nev.)
Redd Foxx
Palm Mortuary Mausoleum
(Las Vegas, Nev.)
Chic Johnson, Ole Olsen
Park Cemetery
(Fairmount, Ind.)
James Dean
Penfield Cemetery
(Penfield, N.Y.)
Peter Duel
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park
(North Hollywood, Calif.)
Bea Benaderet, Mae Clarke, Edmund Cobb, Melville Cooper, Aneta Corsaut, Jane Cowl, Richard Crane, Joe DeRita, Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards, Florence Halop, Oliver Hardy, June Knight, Barton MacLane, Kermit Maynard, George Melford, Mantan Moreland, Mae Murray, Nels P. Nelson, Eddie Polo, (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom, Gail Russell, Alice Terry, A. R. (Archie) Twitchell
Pine Grove Cemetery
(Falmouth, Maine) Gary Merrill
Pinelawn Memorial Park
(Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.)
Brandon De Wilde
Plainfield Township Cemetery
(Rochester, Mich.)
Dick York
Prospect Hill Cemetery
(Towson, Md.)
Divine
Putnam Cemetery
(Greenwich, Conn.)
Bud Collyer. Ezio Pinza
Reed Hill Cemetery
(Moultonborough, N.H.)
Claude Rains
Restland Memorial Park
(Burbank, Calif.)
Walter Hampden
Resurrection Catholic Cemetery
(Dubuque, Iowa) Don Ameche
Resurrection Cemetery
(Madison, Wis.)
Chris Farley
Riverside National Cemetery
(Riverside, Calif.)
Sk
ip Young
Rolling Green Memorial Park
(Westchester, Pa.)
Pearl Bailey
Rose Hill Cemetery
(Altoona, Pa.)
Hedda Hopper
Rose Hill Cemetery
(Bloomington, Ind.)
Hoagy Carmichael
Rose Hills Memorial Park
(Whittier, Calif.)
Timothy Carey, Janet Chandler, Dorothy Diaz, John Gough, William Hopper, Clara Horton, Billy (Froggy) Laughlin, Keye Luke, Dr. Haing S. Ngor
Rosedale Memorial Park
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fernando Lamas, Hattie McDaniel, Anna May Wong
Sacred Heart Cemetery
(Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.)
Gary Cooper
St. Agnes Cemetery
(Lake Placid, N.Y.)
Kate Smith
St. Anne’s Cemetery
(Cranston, R.I.)
Nicholas Colasanto
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church
(New York, N.Y.)
Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish
St. Charles Cemetery & Cemetery of the Resurrection
(Pinelawn, N.Y.)
Vincent Gardenia
St. Hyacinth’s Church Cemetery
(Westbrook, Maine)
Rudy Vallee
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Cemetery
(Bethel, Pa.)
Andy Warhol
St. Mary’s Cemetery
(Ridgefield, Conn.)
Cyril Ritchard
St. Mary’s Whitechapel Church
(Lancaster, Pa.)
Margaret Sullavan
St. Michael’s Cemetery
(Louisville, Ky.)
Victor Mature
Salt Lake City Cemetery
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Edward D. Wood Jr.
San Bruno/Golden Gate National
(San Bruno, Calif.)
Percy Kilbride
San Fernando Mission Cemetery
(Mission Hills, Calif.)
Edward Arnold, Scotty Beckett, Ed Begley Sr., William Bendix, Walter Brennan, Betty Compson, Chuck Connors, Allan Dwan, Frank Faylen, John Frawley, Paul Frawley, William Frawley, Anita Garvin, George Gobel, Francis (Frank) Xavier Killmond, Winnie Lightner, Edmund Lowe, Joan Maloney, June Marlowe, Lee Moran, Tommy Noonan, Henry O’Neill, William (Bill) Phillips, Estelita Rodriguez, Felipe F. Turich, Rosa Turich
Santa Barbara Cemetery
(Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Heather Angel, Ronald Colman, John Ireland
Santa Paula Cemetery
(Santa Paula, Calif.)
Joi Lansing
Shiloh Cemetery
(Shiloh, Ill.)
Mary Wickes
Sholom Memorial Park
(San Fernando, Calif.)
Bernard Gorcey
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
(North Tarrytown, N.Y.)
Alice Brady
Southborough Cemetery
(Southborough, Mass.)
Warner Oland
Spring Hill Cemetery
(Lynchburg, Va.)
Anderson Lawler (Lawlor)
Spring Hill Cemetery
(Madison, Tenn.)
Roy Acuff
St. Cyril and Methodius Cemetery
(Berwick, Pa.)
Nick Adams
Sunset Hills Memorial Park
(Apple Valley, Calif.)
Roy Rogers
Sunset Memorial Park
(Smithfield, N.C.)
Ava Gardner
Trinity Lutheran Church
(Tacoma, Wash.)
Bobby (Wheezer) Hutchins
Union Field Cemetery
(Queens, N.Y.)
Bert Lahr
Union Hill Cemetery
(Kennett Square, Pa.)
Linda Darnell
Unity Chapel
(Spring Green, Wis.)
Anne Baxter
Upton Cemetery
(Upton, Mass.)
Gertrude Lawrence
Victor Valley Memorial Park
(Victorville, Calif.)
Ned Sparks
Village Cemetery
(Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.)
Katharine Cornell
Washington Heights Memorial Park
(Ogden, Utah) Robert Walker
Welwood Murray Cemetery
(Palm Springs, Calif.)
Charles Farrell, Virginia Valli
Westchester Hills Cemetery
(Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.)
John Garfield, Judy Holliday, Max Reinhardt, Lee Strasberg
Westminster Memorial Park
(Westminster, Calif.)
Stafford Repp
Westview Community Cemetery
(Pompano Beach, Fla.)
Esther Rolle
Westwood (Village) Memorial Park
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Charles Aidman, Eve Arden, HyAverback, Lew Ayres, Jim Backus, Edgar Barrier, Richard Basehart, Whit Bissell, John Boles, Fanny Brice, Sebastian Cabot, Ken Carpenter, John Cassavetes, Richard Conte, Norma Crane, Helmut Dantine, Don DeFore, Philip Dorn, Dominique Dunne, Jay C. Flippen, Coleman Francis, Eva Gabor, Michael V. Gazzo, Christopher George, Thomas Gomez, Harold Hecht, Percy Helton, Jim Hutton, Steve Ihnat, Nunnally Johnson, Victor Jory, Brian Keith, Cecil Kellaway, Nancy Kelly, Victor Kilian, Miliza Korjus, Burt Lancaster, Sidney Lanfield, Oscar Levant, Margo, Dean Martin, Andrew Marton, Shirley Mason, Edith Massey, Dorothy Mathews, Walter Matthau, Lewis Milestone, Marvin Miller, Marilyn Monroe, William (Billy) Newell, Robert Newton, Lloyd Nolan, Heather O’Rourke, Dorothy Patrick, Donna Reed, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Marjorie Riordan, Jack Roper, Franklin J. Schaffner, Ernest B. Schoedsack, George C. Scott, Dorothy Shay, Dorothy Stratten, Don Taylor, Kent Taylor, Marshall Thompson, Mel Torme, Helen Traubel, Frank Tuttle, John Vivyan, Josef Von Sternberg, Charles Wagenheim, June Walker, Brooks West, Herbert Wiere, Sylvester Wiere, Cornel Wilde, Estelle Winwood, Natalie Wood
Will Rogers Memorial
(Claremore, Okla.)
Will Rogers
Woodlawn Cemetery
(Bronx, N.Y.)
Diana Barrymore, Harry Carey, Irene Castle, Vernon Castle, Bobby Clark, George M. Cohan, Ricardo Cortez, Duke Ellington, Canada Lee, Marilyn Miller, Otto Preminger, Laurette Taylor
Woodlawn Cemetery
(Santa Monica, Calif.)
George Bancroft, Ted Bessell, Charles Bickford, Edward Brophy, Leo Carrillo, Paul Fix, William Haines, Paul Henreid, Audra Lindley, Doug McClure, Irene Ryan
Woodmen Cemetery
(DeKalb, Tex.)
Dan Blocker
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