Final Resting Place Of The Stars
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Burial places of your favorite movie stars...
Let's visit the five most popular resting places of the stars: Forest Lawn Glendale, Pierce Brothers Westwood, Hollywood Forever (formerly Hollywood Memorial Park), Holy Cross Cemetery, and Hillside Memorial Park. Some are easily accessible to the public, others are tucked away in roped-off corridors and locked-in garden areas. Just where are your favorite movie stars buried?
Forest Lawn Glendale
More stars are buried here than anywhere else on earth!
Forest Lawn Glendale is home to the finest reproductions of Michaelangelo's greatest works such as David, Moses, and La Pieta as well as two of the world's largest paintings, The Crucifixion and The Resurrection. It was established in 1906 by a group of businessmen from San Francisco and is located at 1712 S. Glendale Avenue in Glendale, California.Michael Jackson
Jean Harlowe
Clark Gabel
Carole Lombard
W. C. Fields
Sammy Davis Jr.
Walt Disney
Nat King Cole
Jimmy Stewart
Humphrey Bogart
Errol Flynn
Spencer Tracy
Mary Pickford
Pierce Brothers Westwood
Many of your favorite television stars are buried here!
The Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California. It is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, including Farrah Fawcett in 2009.Stars buried here include:
James Coburn
Bob Crane
Rodney Dangerfield
Dominique Dunne
Farrah Fawcett
Eva Gabor
Merv Griffin
Janis Joplin (was cremated here and her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean)
Gene Kelly
Don Knotts
Jack Lemon
Dean Martin
Walter Matthau
Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Montgomery
Carroll O'Connor
Natalie Wood
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Rinal resting place of one of America's favorite movie stars
Marilyn Monroe's funeral took place at 1:00pm on August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Mortuary Chapel on the grounds of the Westwood Memorial Cemetery. She was buried in what was known at that time as the "Cadillac of caskets" - a hermetically sealing antique-silver-finished solid bronze "masterpiece" casket lined with champagne colored satin-silk.
It is estimated that
Marilyn Monroe's marble crypt
gets 350 visitors every single day.
Marilyn Monroe Resources
Hollywood Forever
Silent movie starts make this their final resting place
Stars buried at Hollywood Forever, formerly Hollywood Memorial Park, located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood.Rudolph Valentino
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig)
Marion Davies
Tyrone Power
Cecille B. DeMille
Fay Wray
Don Adams
Celebrity Death Certificates
Fascinated by famous Hollywood deaths? This book reproduces 225 death certificates of Hollywood's famous dearly departed and may also reveal information that stars carefully concealed, such as actual birthdates. In California, death certificates are a matter of public record--and consequently an untapped mine of information about all of your favorite stars and entertainers.
Celebrity Death Certificates 3
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The Hollywood Book of Death
Arranged by manner of death, this well researched book includes details of celebrities colorful lives and unusual deaths, such as the grisly murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson family and the mysterious death of Bob Crane. With more than 100 rare photographs, this fascinating book gives you new insight into the final curtain call of 125 of your favorite television and movie stars.
The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols
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Man of 1,000 Voices
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Holy Cross Cemetery
Joe Dimaggio, not as close to Marilyn as he wanted to be...
You'd think Joltin' Joe would want to be buried next to the love of his life, but his final resting place is over 7 miles away from Marilyn Monroe (a ten minute ride when traffic is light) at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow)
Charles Boyer
John Candy
Bill Cody (western cowboy star)
Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester)
Bing Crosby
Jimmy Durante
Jack Haley (the Tin Man)
Rita Hayworth
Bela Lugosi (Dracula)
Fred MacMurray
Ricardo Montalban
Sharon Tate
Cashing in on tragic deaths
For the morbidly curious who like to do their siteseeing riding inside a hearse, a company called Grave Line Tours will take you on a tour to the sites of several dozen murders, suicides, accidental deaths, and celebrity funerals. Among the hearse's first stops: the hotel where rock singer Janis Joplin expired in 1970 (a taped narration, with appropriate musical accompaniment, provided graphic details of her heroin overdose) and the Chateau Marmont where comedian John Belushi died. Hillside Memorial
Famous Jewish entertainers make this place their last home
The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is located at 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, in Culver City and is the final resting place of a number of prominent entertainers of the Jewish faith.Jack Benny
Milton Berle
Cyd Charisse
Lorne Greene
Moe Howard
Michael Landon
Dinah Shore
Shelley Winters
Al Jolson at Hillside Memorial
Tragic Celebrity Deaths
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Movie Stars Final Homes
Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes
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What celebrity buriel places have you seen?
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George Vreeland Hill
May 18, 2012 @ 12:08 am | delete
- Great site.
I have been to a lot of celebrity cemeteries as I live in Los Angeles.
George Vreeland Hill
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tinamahan
Mar 27, 2012 @ 11:46 am | delete
- I haven't seen any of them, but it was interesting to see which celebrity's were buried at the various places. Thank you for sharing that interesting information.
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karmicchristian
Mar 19, 2012 @ 7:29 am | delete
- We have a celebrity memorial place near the Marina beach! This is a very interesting thought behind the lens! Nicely presented. :)
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Tipi
Mar 4, 2012 @ 10:41 am | delete
- You could combine this topic with wreaths, and memorial Day.
Thanks for the final resting place tour of some stars. Very different!
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