HOLLYWOOD:
Celebrity Grave Markers
At Hollywood Forever Cemetery
aka Hollywood Memorial Park
This place is huge! It is about the size of 50 football fields! 60 acres of grave sites with several very large crypt mausoleums and niches in columbariums. In total there are about 100,000 people laid to rest there!
We took a picture of the burial space for each of the 250 celebrities interred there and sorted them by decade:
Flower Shop
Near the Front Gate
Celebrity Map
They have a Map for $6 and a booklet for $20
Garden of Legends
This is the main celebrity area
Cadillac Hearse
XT6
Vintage Hearse
1962 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud
Beth Olam Cemetery Area
There are very large Jewish areas
Beth Olam Mausoleum
Piano
A few of the mausoleums have old pianos in them
Abbey of the Psalms
There are very large Christian areas too
Chapel Columbarium
Rotunda Fountain
Morning Noon and Night
This statuary of the three nymphs was created for the opening of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Columbarium Rotunda in the 1920's. The sculptor's model was acclaimed actress, Louise Fazenda.
Beyond her bathing beauty status, she was known as a wacky comedienne with odd costumes and make-up. Her career began in early silent comedies for Mack Sennett and Universal's Joker Unit. She appeared in 147 films including "Mike and Jake at the Beach" in 1913, "Goldiggers of 1923" and her last film was "Old Maid"1939. She married famed Producer, Hal Wallis who gave us many classics such as, "Casablanca" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" 1942. They had one adopted son.
Cathedral Mausoleum
Statues Everywhere!
Cathedral Mausoleum
Lots of Stained Glass!
Peacocks!
There are peacocks walking around all over!
