Hollywood Forever

List of interments at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

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Reviewed October 13, Serenity surrounded by madness. Reviewed October 12, Very good. Previous Next 1 2 3 4 5 6 … Hollywood undoubtedly conjures up images of movie stars and high-end lifestyles, and to this day, tourists flock here from around the world to see the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre and to catch a glimpse of the famed Hollywood sign up close.

Celebrity impersonators and crowds give these areas the feeling of an amusement park while many clubs and hotels fill up around the weekends for late-night Nearby Hotels See all nearby hotels. Nearby Restaurants See all 11, nearby restaurants. Nearby Attractions See all 2, nearby attractions. Dearly Departed Tours and Artifact Museum. See all nearby hotels See all 11, nearby restaurants See all 2, nearby attractions.

See all 5 questions. Get quick answers from Hollywood Forever Cemetery staff and past visitors. I see that you took the tour on a Wednesday. The website says tours only on Saturdays. Response from Baxterthetravelguy Reviewed this property. You can get a guidebook at the flower shop near the entrance and do your own.

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Im visiting my father and I get to shaken to see his grave so I smoke a stogie to calm my nerves is this fine? Response from Madison S Reviewed this property. There are receptacles for butts and plenty of folks were smoking. Can i just stop by to visit without a tour. I like to pay my respects to the movie stars I loved. Response from Michael N Reviewed this property.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

There is no need for a tour. You can just walk at your own pace. You can do some research online at their website. Previous Next 1 2. TripAdvisor LLC is not responsible for content on external web sites. Taxes, fees not included for deals content. By the s, the California Cemetery Board began receiving regular complaints from the families of people interred there.

Family members complained that the grounds were not kept up and were disturbed to hear stories about vandalism on the cemetery grounds. The heirs of well-known makeup artist Max Factor who was interred in the Beth Olam Mausoleum in moved his and other Factor family remains to Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City after the mausoleum sustained water damage that discolored the walls.

In , a Los Angeles woman and 1, other plot owners filed a class action lawsuit against the cemetery for invasion of privacy after they discovered that Roth allowed employees of Paramount Pictures to park in the cemetery while the studio's parking structure was undergoing construction.

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In the late s, Jules Roth needed to settle tax bills and maintain his lavish lifestyle. It was reported that the property was paid for with cash. Those lawns are now strip malls that house, among other businesses, an auto parts store and a laundromat. After the Northridge earthquake , Roth couldn't afford to repair the roofs and other damage the earthquake caused to crypts. In , Roth became ill after he fell in his Hollywood Hills home.

He had been embroiled in a scandal regarding another cemetery he owned, Lincoln Memorial Park, in Carson, California. Several months before his death, Roth was bedridden and disoriented and during this time his will was changed to provide for his business associates and maid, who were the only witnesses to his signature. His relatives, which were listed in his previous will, were written out. Roth died on January 4, , and he was interred next to his wife Virginia, his father, and his mother in the Cathedral Mausoleum.

Roth's bust in an antique shop. The bust was part of Mr. Roth's personal artifacts that were sold at auction. They renamed the cemetery "Hollywood Forever" and set-out to give it a complete renaissance, restoring, refurbishing and adding to it, [13] investing millions in revitalizing the grounds and also offering documentaries about the deceased that are to be played in perpetuity on kiosks and are posted on the Web, [14] as well as organizing tours to draw visitors.

Since , the cemetery has screened films on weekends during the summer and on holidays at a gathering called Cinespia. The screenings are held on the Douglas Fairbanks Lawn and the films are projected onto the white marble west wall of the Cathedral Mausoleum. It was released on February 19, The horror film One Dark Night starring Meg Tilly and Adam West used the two mausoleums at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for the interior and exterior shots of the mausoleum in the film.

A documentary about the cemetery called The Young and the Dead , was made in The cemetery is briefly shown in the short Stopover in Hollywood. The television series featured the cemetery in the episode "Hollywood Forever". In one scene of the novel Expiration Date by Tim Powers , the main characters are evading the antagonists of the novel by hiding in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

At one point the main hero, Pete Sullivan, remarks at the tomb of Bugsy Siegel that his late Hollywood producer father was friends with Siegel and many of the other celebrities interred at Hollywood Forever. To illustrate, Sullivan knocks the first few beats of " Shave-and-a-Haircut " on the marble slab of Siegel's crypt, and, a moment later, receives the response "Two-Bits" knocked from inside the crypt.

A scene from the movie Valentine's Day took place in the cemetery. The movie shown in the cemetery was Hot Spell In , Los Angeles heavy metal band L. Guns released an album entitled Hollywood Forever , which also contains a title track. A music video for one of the album's tracks, "Requiem" featured excerpts filmed on location at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The cemetery was featured in the horror comedy Burying the Ex.

Talking Dead hosted a live minute season premiere on the grounds, immediately following the Season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead. Numerous notable individuals including many prominent persons in the entertainment industry have been interred at the cemetery, such as Mel Blanc , Jerry Siegel , Yma Sumac , Cecil B. The cemetery's website contains Forever Tributes of each star which consist of a video with introduction titles saying, "A Hollywood Forever Tribute, in honor of The body of the video contains photos and film clips of the honoree, interviews with friends or relatives, music and narration.

The conclusion again shows the honoree's name birth and death year. The videos are available through an interactive map of the property on the cemetery website. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For album by rock band L.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles

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