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- GLEN_020606_03.JPG: Jean Hersholt. The sign says: "Danish by birth, American by adoption, citizen of the world. Through his love for all mankind, famed as an actor, best known as kindly Dr Christian... Writer and translator of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Benefactor to his profession through the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences... Honored at home and abroad for his cultural and philanthropic contributions to the world. Here in remembrance of him, is Kloos Hans, an original statue by Edvard Eriksen inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale of the boy who went forth into the world to win a princess and a kingdom... A fitting tribute to a great and warm-hearted humanitarian. Friends here and abroad erected this memorial."
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- Wikipedia Description: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California (termed "memorial parks" by the company). The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.
History:
Forest Lawn was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "Founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright grave markers) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He was convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic, Christian beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn to be "a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and ... memorial architecture" A number of plaques which state Eaton's intentions are signed "The Builder."
Most of its burial sections have evocative names, including Eventide, Babyland (for infants, shaped like a heart), Graceland, Inspiration Slope, Slumberland (for children and adolescents), Sweet Memories, Vesperland, Borderland (on the edge of the cemetery), and Dawn of Tomorrow. Packages for burial cover a wide spectrum of prices.
Statuary and art:
The six Forest Lawn cemeteries contain about 1,500 statues, about 10% of which are reproductions of famous works of art, in various locations. Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been recreated in stained glass in the Memorial Court of Honor ‘in vibrant, glowing and indestructible colors.’ There are also a number of full-sized reproductions of other Renaissance sculptures, including Michelangelo's David and Moses. This cemetery is the only place in the world containing a complete collection of replica Michelangelo's sculptures, which were made from castings taken from the originals and using marble from the same quarries in Carrara, Italy as used by Michelangelo.
Locations:
There are three non-sectarian chapels: ‘The Little Church of the Flowers,’ ‘The Wee Kirk o’ the Heather,’ and ‘The Church of the Recessional’, which are all exact replicas of famous European churches. Over 60,000 people have actually been married here (including Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman). More than 250,000 people are buried at Forest Lawn, and over a million people visit it each year, including thousands of schoolchildren on field trips.
Some of the inspiration at Forest Lawn is patriotic rather than pious, such as the Court of Freedom, with its large mosaic of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and a 13-foot (4.0 m)-high statue of George Washington. On display in the "Hall of the Crucifixion" is the panoramic painting by the Polish artist Jan Styka entitled "The Crucifixion." It is the largest permanently mounted religious painting in the world, measuring 195 feet (59 m) in length by 45 feet (14 m) in height. The main gates of Forest Lawn – Glendale are claimed to be the world's largest wrought-iron gates and are located at 1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California.
The Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery is a second park solely dedicated to the preservation of American history.
Forest Lawn's 300 acres (1.2 km2) of intensely landscaped grounds and thematic sculptures were the inspiration for the biting commentary of Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved One and Jessica Mitford's acerbic The American Way of Death. Many commentators have considered Forest Lawn to be a unique American creation, and perhaps a uniquely maudlin Los Angeles creation, with its "theme park" approach to death.
Famous burials:
Among those interred in the cemetery are many important personalities and famous people, including men and women from the entertainment industry and their relatives. Some final resting places, such as those of Humphrey Bogart, John M. Stahl, Lon Chaney, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and Mary Pickford, are secluded in private gated gardens with no public access. A number of interment locations are also kept from the public eye. The Court of Honor advertises that in some of the crypts beneath it are spots which are not bought, but individuals are "voted in" as "Immortals." In 2009 the cemetery became the focus of intense media interest surrounding the private entombing of Michael Jackson in the privacy of Holly Terrace in the Great Mausoleum.
Forest Lawn Museum:
The Forest Lawn Museum at Glendale displays art and artifacts collected by Hubert Eaton representing specific locations and peoples from around the world. There are sections for India, Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, South America, Australia and Europe. The collection includes paintings, stained glass, Western bronze sculptures, American historical artifacts, actual examples of every coin mentioned in the Bible, exact replicas of the British crown jewels, world cultural artifacts and one of the Easter Island statues, rescued from the bottom of a boat where it was used as ballast. It is named "Henry".
List of notable and celebrity burials at Forest Lawn:
(Those in non-public areas are marked †.)
* Forrest J Ackerman, historian and writer
* Art Acord, actor
* John Aasen, silent movie giant
* Anita Louise Adler, actress
* Maurice "Buddy" Adler, producer
* Robert Alda, actor
* Gracie Allen, actress and comedienne
* Lona Andre, actress
* LaVerne Andrews, singer
* Maxene Andrews, singer
* Lucien Andriot, cinematographer
* Roscoe Ates, actor
* Gene Austin, singer
* Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne, and producer (Ashes moved after 13 years in 2002, to Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, NY)
* †Theda Bara, actress
* Joan Barclay, actress
* Ben Bard, actor
* Binnie Barnes, actress
* Jack Barry, television host and producer,
* L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* Warner Baxter, actor
* Wallace Beery, actor
* Alphonzo Bell, Jr., congressman
* †Rex Bell, actor and Nevada Lieutenant Governor
* William Benedict, actor
* Joe Besser, actor and comedian. Besser was one of the Three Stooges.
* Billie Bird, actress
* J. Stuart Blackton, filmmaker
* Joan Blondell, actress
* Clara Blandick, actress
* Eric Blore, actor
* Monte Blue, actor
* Betty Blythe, actress
* †Humphrey Bogart, actor
* Mary Boland, actress
* †Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore
* Frank Borzage, actor,director
* †Hobart Bosworth, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* †Clara Bow, actress
* †William Boyd, actor
* Betty Bronson, actress
* Rand Brooks, actor
* Clarence Brown, director
* Joe E. Brown, actor and comedian
* †Johnny Mack Brown, actor
* John Bunny, Jr., actor
* Milo Burcham, test pilot
* William R. Burnett, novelist and screenwriter
* Dorsey Burnette, singer and songwriter
* Johnny Burnette, singer
* George Burns, actor and comedian
* Francis X. Bushman, actor
* Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer
* Alice Calhoun, actress
* May Cambern, composer
* Judy Canova, entertainer
* June Caprice-Millarde, actress
* Earl Carroll, theatre impresario
* †Jack Carson, actor
* William Castle, film director
* †Lon Chaney, Sr., actor
* Spencer Charters, actor
* Charley Chase, actor and comedian
* Rex Cherryman, actor
* Tim Choate, actor
* Berton Churchill, actor
* Frank Churchill, composer
* Joe Cobb, actor
* †Nat King Cole, singer
* Russ Columbo, singer
* †Sam Cooke, singer
* †Ellen Corby, actress
* Regis Cordic, actor
* Edward Coxen, actor
* Laird Cregar, actor
* Donald Crisp, actor
* George Cukor, director
* Robert Cummings, actor
* Lester Cuneo, actor
* Edward S. Curtis, photographer of the American West
* Michael Curtiz, director
* Dan Dailey, actor
* Buddy DeSylva, songwriter
* Dorothy Dandridge, actress and singer
* Ruby Dandridge, actress
* Mickey Daniels, actor
* William H. Daniels, cinematographer
* Jane Darwell, actress
* Dorothy Davenport, actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer
* Allen Davey cinematographer
* Jim Davis, actor
* †Sammy Davis, Jr., actor and singer
* Jack Dawn, make up artist
* Sam De Grasse, actor
* Carter DeHaven, actor
* Armando del Moral, film journalist, helped found the Golden Globes.
* Georges Delerue, composer
* William Demarest, actor
* Carol Dempster, actress
* Noah Dietrich, businessman
* Elias Disney (1859–1941), Walt Disney's father
* Flora Call Disney (1868–1938), Walt Disney's mother
* Walt Disney, film studio and entertainment park founder
* Richard Dix, actor
* George Dolenz, actor
* Jenny Dolly, cabaret performer
* Rosie Dolly, cabaret performer
* Fifi D'Orsay, actress
* Don Douglas, actor
* Lloyd C. Douglas, novelist
* Billie Dove, actress
* Theodore Dreiser, novelist
* Chuck Dressen, MLB baseball player, manager
* Louise Dresser, actress
* †Marie Dressler, actress
* Don Drysdale, MLB baseball player
* David Dukes, actor
* Rosetta Duncan, vaudevillian
* Vivian Duncan, vaudevillian
* Minta Durfee, actress
* Junior Durkin, actor
* Hubert Eaton, founder of Forest Lawn cemeteries
* Mary Eaton, actress
* Howard Arden Edwards, artist
* Ralph Edwards, host
* Sally Eilers, actress
* Caryll Ann Ekelund, actress
* Frederick W. Elvidge, actor
* Francis de Erdely, painter
* Leon Errol, actor
* Douglas Fairbanks (relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 1941)
* Dot Farley, actress
* Joseph Farnham, screenwriter and film editor
* James Fawcett (1906–1942), actor
* Romaine Fielding, actor and director
* †W. C. Fields, actor and comedian
* Larry Fine, actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges
* Johnny Flamingo, singer
* Frank P. Flint, politician
* Errol Flynn, actor
* Tony Fontane, singer
* Harrison Ford, silent film actor
* Betty Francisco, actress
* Bruno Frank, novelist and screenwriter
* Rudolf Friml, composer
* Dwight Frye, actor
* Charles E. Fuller, evangelist
* Jules Furthman, screenwriter
* †Clark Gable, actor
* John Gilbert, actor
* King C. Gillette, businessman
* Hermione Gingold, actress
* J. Frank Glendon, actor
* †Samuel Goldwyn, producer
* Edgar J. Goodspeed, theologian
* Huntley Gordon, actor
* Jetta Goudal, actress
* Edmund Goulding, director and writer
* Joe Grant, artist and writer
* Charles Grapewin, actor
* †Sid Grauman, theater impresario
* Alfred E. Green, director
* †Sydney Greenstreet, actor
* Harold Grieve, art director
* Bessie Griffin, singer
* Paul A. Guilfoyle, actor
* Fred L. Guiol, director and screenwriter
* Alan Hale, Sr., actor
* Ernest Haller, cinematographer
* Emile Hamaty, banker and actor
* Russell Harlan, cinematographer
* †Jean Harlow, actress
* Elizabeth Harrower, actress and screenwriter
* Phil Hartman, actor (cremation; his ashes were scattered at sea)
* Charles Hatfield, scientist
* Harry Hayden, actor
* Lela Bliss-Hayden, actress
* Edith Head, costume designer
* Ralph Hepburn, race car driver
* Holmes Herbert, actor
* Babe Herman, baseball player
* Paul Herrick, songwriter
* Jean Hersholt, actor
* Józef Hofmann, concert pianist
* Alice Hollister, actress
* George Hollister, cinematographer
* Burton Holmes, director and producer
* Helen Holmes, actress
* Happy Holt (1901–1924), child actor
* James W. Horne, actor and director
* Edward Everett Horton, actor
* Rupert Hughes, filmmaker
* Michael Hutchence, singer (one-third of his ashes were interred by his mother and sister)
* June Hutton, singer
* Wiard Ihnen art director and production designer
* Rex Ingram, director
* †Michael Jackson, musician
* Carrie Jacobs-Bond, singer and songwriter
* Claire James, actress
* Luther James, writer
* Elsie Janis, actress
* DeWitt Jennings, actor
* Caro Jones, casting director
* Rupert Julian, film director
* Gus Kahn, songwriter
* Bert Kalmar, songwriter
* Terry Kath, musician
* Tom Keene, actor
* A. Atwater Kent, businessman
* Erle C. Kenton, director
* Charles Henry King, paternal grandfather of President Gerald Ford
* Leslie Lynch King, Sr., biological father of President Ford
* Martha Alicia Porter King, paternal grandmother of President Ford
* Ted Knight, actor
* Clarence Kolb, actor
* Red Kress baseball player
* Kathryn Kuhlman, evangelist
* †Alan Ladd, actor
* Louis L'Amour, novelist
* Carole Landis, actress
* Lash La Rue, actor
* Mervyn LeRoy, director and producer
* Anna LeSueur, mother of Joan Crawford and Hal LeSueur
* Hal LeSueur, actor, brother of Joan Crawford
* Fritz Leiber, Sr., actor
* Irene Lentz, costume designer
* Robert Z. Leonard, film director
* Mitchell Lewis, actor
* Ann Little, actress
* Lucien Littlefield, actor
* Robert Livingston, actor
* Harold Lloyd, actor and comedian
* †Carole Lombard, actress
* Tom London, actor
* Baron H. Long, hotelier, racehorse/racetrack owner
* Theodore Lorch, actor
* Ernst Lubitsch, director
* Ida Lupino, actress and director
* Eustace Lycett, special effects designer
* †Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
* Jimmy MacDonald, voice over artist
* Alan Marshal, actor
* Chico Marx, actor and comedian
* Gummo Marx, agent
* Mike Mazurki, actor and wrestler
* Marian McCargo, actress
* Johnston McCulley, author, writer, creator of Zorro
* Marc McDermott, actor
* Frank McGlynn Sr., actor
* J.P. McGowan, director
* †Victor McLaglen, actor
* Jimmy McLarnin, boxing champion
* Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist
* Dimitre Mehandjiysky, artist
* William Cameron Menzies, art director
* Beryl Mercer, actress
* Robert Millikan, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
* Vincente Minnelli, director
* Art Mix, actor
* Tom Mix, actor
* Pat Moran (1901–1965), actor
* Antonio Moreno, actor
* †Clayton Moore, actor
* Harvey Seeley Mudd, engineer and educator
* William Mulholland, engineer
* Spud Murphy, composer
* Charles W. Nash, automobile manufacturer
* Alla Nazimova, actress
* Frank Nelson, actor
* Alfred Newman, composer
* Fred Niblo, director
* L. L. Nunn, educator
* Jack Oakie, actor and comedian
* Merle Oberon, actress
* Clifford Odets, playwright
* Charles Ogle, actor
* Edna May Oliver, actress
* Culbert Olson, California Governor
* Maria Ouspenskaya, actress
* Richard F. Outcault, cartoonist
* Monroe Owsley, actor
* Lilli Palmer, actress
* Alexander Pantages, theater impresario
* Allen E. Paulson, aviation entrepreneur
* Joe Penner, actor and comedian
* †Jack Pickford, actor
* †Lottie Pickford, actress
* †Mary Pickford, actress, businesswoman, co-founder of United Artists
* Lon Poff, actor
* Dick Powell, actor
* John Robert Powers, model agency owner
* Fred Quimby, producer
* John Qualen, actor
* Lou Rawls, singer,jazz r&b
* Phillip Reed, actor
* Wallace Reid, actor
* Cleo Ridgely, actress
* Lyda Roberti, actress
* Blossom Rock, actress
* Ruth Roland, actress and producer
* Gladys Root, criminal defense attorney
* Henry Roquemore, actor
* Alan Roscoe, actor
* Charlie Ruggles, actor
* Wesley Ruggles, film director
* Barbara Ruick, actress
* William Russell, actor
* S. Z. Sakall, actor
* Chic Sale, actor
* Isabel Sanford, actress
* Paul Scardon, actor, producer, director
* Victor Schertzinger, composer, director, producer, screenwriter
* Mabel Julienne Scott, actress
* Ynez Seabury, actress
* William A. Seiter, director
* †David O. Selznick, producer, founder of Selznick International Pictures
* †Myron Selznick, producer and talent agent
* Phil Selznick, nightclub owner (uncle of David O. Selznick)
* Ethel Shannon, actress
* Athole Shearer, actress
* †Norma Shearer, actress
* Lowell Sherman, director and actor
* S. Sylvan Simon, director
* †Red Skelton, actor and comedian
* Tod Sloan, thoroughbred racing jockey
* Hillel Slovak. musician
* Rainbeaux Smith, actress
* Tom Smith, thoroughbred trainer
* †William French Smith, U.S. Attorney General
* Marguerite Snow, actress
* Carl Spitz, animal trainer
* Hanley Stafford, actor
* John M. Stahl, director and producer
* †Lionel Stander, actor
* Max Steiner, composer
* Casey Stengel, MLB manager
* James Stephenson, actor
* Anita Stewart, actress
* James Stewart, actor
* Ruth Stonehouse, actress and director
* Axel Stordahl, composer, arranger
* Herbert Stothart, composer
* Elbridge Amos Stuart, industrialist, Carnation Company founder
* Jan Styka, painter
* Frank Swann, actor
* Frank Tashlin, animator, director, screenwriter
* Art Tatum, musician
* Robert Taylor, actor
* †Irving Thalberg, producer
* Fred Thomson, actor
* Chief Thundercloud, actor
* Lawrence Tibbett, actor and singer
* Dimitri Tiomkin, composer
* Sammee Tong, actor
* Ernest Torrence, actor
* Raquel Torres, actress
* Spencer Tracy, actor
* Henry Travers, actor
* Jim Tully, writer
* Ben Turpin, actor and comedian
* Lurene Tuttle, actress
* Valda Valkyrien, ballerina
* W.S. Van Dyke, director
* Beryl Wallace, singer
* Hal B. Wallis, producer
* Bill Walsh, producer
* Clara Ward, singer
* Jay Ward, producer and writer
* Ethel Waters, actress and singer
* Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rhythm & blues musician
* Mary Wells, singer
* Roland West, director
* Jack Westrope, Hall of Fame jockey
* Ted Wilde, director and writer
* Guy Wilkerson, actor
* Claire Windsor, actress
* Grant Withers, actor
* Sam Wood, director, producer, writer, actor
* George Woolf, Hall of Fame jockey
* Robert Woolsey, actor and comedian
* Hank Worden, actor
* †William Wrigley, Jr., chewing gum magnate, owner of the Chicago Cubs
* William Wyler, director
* †Ed Wynn, actor and comedian
* †Keenan Wynn, actor
* James "J-Dilla" Yancey, hip-hop producer
* †Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian spiritual guru and author
* Robert Young, actor
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