Published: April 29, 2011
Words: 31,630 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452469980

Short description

For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever has been the premier burial spot for Hollywood’s top celebrities. Today, it’s a leading tourist destination for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite stars. “Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide” is the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the burial locations of nearly 70 celebrities.

Extended description

For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite stars. “Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide” is the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the final burial locations for everyone from “The First Movie Star” to the most recent additions, along with detailed personal and professional biographies.
Organized as four separate walking tours of the property, the book includes nearly 70 names, from the legendary Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Cecil B. DeMille, to more recent additions, including Don Adams, Mr. Blackwell, Estelle Getty and “Vampira.” The book also features the stories behind the stones, including the legend -– and the true story –- behind Valentino’s mysterious “Lady in.. (Read more) For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite stars. “Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide” is the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the final burial locations for everyone from “The First Movie Star” to the most recent additions, along with detailed personal and professional biographies.
Organized as four separate walking tours of the property, the book includes nearly 70 names, from the legendary Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Cecil B. DeMille, to more recent additions, including Don Adams, Mr. Blackwell, Estelle Getty and “Vampira.” The book also features the stories behind the stones, including the legend -– and the true story –- behind Valentino’s mysterious “Lady in Black,” the mystery of Marion Davies’ secret child, the ghosts seen at the graves of silent film actress Virginia Rappe and actor Clifton Webb, the death of Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, the secret life and unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor, and the puzzling epitaph on the crypt of gangster Bugsy Siegel.
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hollywood, cemetery, california, los angeles, celebrities, valentino, film, movie stars, cemeteries, graves, old hollywood, cemetery research, celebrity biography, hollywood biography, dead celebrities, gravesites, cemetery guide, hollywood forever, rudolph valentino

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Review by: Sandra Fitzgerald on May 23, 2011 :
While I do not have the same depth of familiarity with Hollywood Forever as I do with the Forest Lawn properties, I have been a follower of the park and it's progress over many years. I was heartbroken at the dilapidated condition it had fallen into and watching the work that Tyler Cassity and his staff have done to rescue the cemetery has been so very thrilling. They have made it a place of peace and beauty once again deserving of the many Hollywood stars that made it their final home. Mark's book is an excellent guide to the many, many, MANY points of interest at Hollywood Forever. I recommend it wholeheartedly to devoted fans of departed Hollywood such as myself.
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