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Description of Pictures: Pictures here include three visits to the cemetery:

(020602) Was my first visit. It was right after Glendale and I was impressed that they actually told you who was buried where. I missed some things so I knew I had to come back.
(020605) This time, I had read the maps and knew who I wanted to find. While I was there, I talked to one of the guys in charge of the place and he promised me a guided tour of the place if I'd come back so...
(020607) Was my guided tour with someone else. Nice person and we talked a lot about why people bothered being buried instead of just having ashes spread. She said it was mostly done for ancestors who'd want to come back and find something from their family past.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. 4EVER_020602_01.JPG: Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Sr.
2. 4EVER_020602_02.JPG: Tyrone Power
3. 4EVER_020602_03.JPG: William Clark Jr (founded LA Philharmonic)
4. 4EVER_020602_05.JPG: A memorial to 20 Los Angeles Times staff members killed in a bombing at the paper. Harrison Otis, the publisher, was very conservative (as was the paper) and very anti-union. The building was bombed during a strike. Otis hired private investigators who tracked down the culprits.
5. 4EVER_020602_06.JPG: Mel Blanc
6. 4EVER_020602_07.JPG: A memorial to Hattie McDaniel. She played Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" and was the first black performer to win an Oscar. It was her desire to be buried with her fellow white stars in the cemetery but racial segregation laws in 1952 prohibited blacks from being buried in a "white" cemetery. When the new owners took over the cemetery in 1998, the asked to have her re-interred at Hollywood Forever. The family said no but allowed a tribute to be built to her there instead.
7. 4EVER_020602_08.JPG: Harry Cohn (headed Columbia Pictures)
8. 4EVER_020602_09.JPG: Jayne Mansfield
9. 4EVER_020602_11.JPG: Anna Maria De Carrascosa, "The Lady In Black". She's known for having visited Rudolph Valentino's grave every day for years after his death (and burial in this cemetery).
10. 4EVER_020602_12.JPG: Cecil B DeMille
11. 4EVER_020602_13.JPG: John Huston
12. 4EVER_020602_14.JPG: Griffith J Griffith. The bulk of Griffith Park (which contains the Hollywood sign, the Greek Theatre, and the Griffith Observatory) was donated to the city in 1896 by Griffith J Griffith, a Welsh emigrant who earned a fortune in gold mining. Griffith owned land all around Los Angeles. In 1903, during a drunken rage, convinced that his wife was an agent for the pope, he shot her. She survived but he was sent to San Quentin prison for two years. At his death, the city had to consider whether they really wanted his donation. The money won. The Hollywood Forever cemetery is founded on his land and when the cemetery imposed an admission charge on tourists, Griffth's grandson threatened to take back the land so the charge was dropped.
13. 4EVER_020607_001.JPG: Mel Blanc
14. 4EVER_020607_002.JPG: Marion Davies (William Randolph Hearst's mistress). This was the "other woman" depicted in "Citizen Kane".
15. 4EVER_020607_003.JPG: Cecil B DeMille
16. 4EVER_020607_004.JPG: Rudolph Valentino
17. 4EVER_020607_005.JPG: Peter Finch
18. 4EVER_020607_006.JPG: Barbara LaMarr. She died in 1926 but obviously someone still cared a great deal about her.
19. 4EVER_020607_009.JPG: Peter Lorre
20. 4EVER_020607_012.JPG: Joan Hackett (the marker says "Go away -- I'm asleep")
21. 4EVER_020607_013.JPG: Edward G Robinson
22. 4EVER_020607_014.JPG: They had a number of stray cats who ran away whenever you approached them but they were apparently being fed by the staff because I saw food dishes.
23. 4EVER_020607_019.JPG: Bugsy Siegel, mobster who basically founded Las Vegas. You've got to appreciate the marker which says "In loving memory from the family". You have to be nervous about the lipstick kisses though.
24. 4EVER_020607_020.JPG: Harry Chandler (Harrison Otis' son-in-law and second publisher of the LA Times, the paper became more responsible and respectable after his death; with his father-in-law, made a financial killing in the San Fernando Valley/Owens Valley land grab).
25. 4EVER_020607_021.JPG: Harrison Otis (the Los Angeles Times publisher who made millions are part of the Owens Valley land deal).
26. 4EVER_020607_023.JPG: Tyrone Power
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Wikipedia Description: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. It is adjacent to the north wall, or back, of Paramount Studios, which, with RKO Studios, bought 40 acres (160,000 m2) by 1920. The Beth Olam Cemetery, in the southwestern section, is a dedicated Jewish burial ground.

History:

The cemetery was founded in 1899 on 100 acres (0.40 km2) as Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery. By the latter part of the 20th century it had become run down. Allegations of financial mismanagement caused the State of California to forbid the sale of plots. On the verge of closure in a bankruptcy proceeding, Tyler Cassity of Forever Enterprises purchased the now 62-acre (250,000 m2) property in 1998 for $375,000. They renamed it "Hollywood Forever," and restored and refurbished it.

The cemetery is active. The longtime ban on the sale of plots was rescinded when the Forever Network restored the cemetery, and space for more graves remains.

Tours:

Motion picture historian Karie Bible leads a walking tour through the cemetery. Bible is the current "Lady In Black," carrying on the tradition of the mysterious woman who put a rose on Rudolph Valentino's grave every year.

In popular culture:

During the summer, movies are screened at the cemetery at a gathering called Cinespia. Thousands of people come with beach chairs, blankets, and food to view films projected onto the side of one of the buildings.

There is a documentary about Hollywood Forever Cemetery called The Young and the Dead. Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery are a number of important personalities, famous persons, including men and women from the entertainment industry, important people in the history of Los Angeles, and their relatives.

The television series 90210 featured the cemetery in the episode "Hollywood Forever".

A scene from the 2010 movie Valentines Day to ...More...
Atlas Obscura Description: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Hollywood Forever cemetery was founded in 1899 by farmer and businessman Isaac Van Nuys. Originally called Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, the site was one of the first “park-like” cemeteries on the West Coast. It features a lush green landscape, classical architecture, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites.
Hollywood Forever is the final resting place for more Hollywood bigwigs and celebrities than any other cemetery in the world. Stars such as Cecil B. DeMille, Johnny Ramone, and Estelle Getty have all been laid to rest here. During the movie industry’s growth in the 1920s, visitors would flock to Los Angeles in search of celebrity homes and tombstones. Among the tombs was industrialist William A. Clark Jr.’s Greek Revival-style catacomb. Visitors must walk over a 40-foot granite bridge in order to reach Clark’s resting place, which sits on its own island in a lake and cost $500K to complete.
Though the cemetery flourished as an attraction through the 1940s, it became increasingly downtrodden over the next few decades. By the 1990s, the site suffered from mismanagement, neglect, and an earthquake that left potholes and open crypts in its wake. In late 1997, 27-year old Tyler Cassity purchased the lot for a mere $375,000 and has since worked to restore the estimated $7 million worth of damages from the decades of neglect.
In the restoration process, Cassity has uncovered long-forgotten mausoleums and elaborate rooms filled with stained-glass windows and vaulted ceilings. In October of 1999, Cassity erected a granite monument to Hattie McDaniel, an Oscar-winning African-American actress who died in 1952. Though McDaniel wished to be buried in the cemetery along with her Hollywood contemporaries, the bigotry of the time prevented her wish from being fulfilled. “They made a horrible decision and it is in our po ...More...
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