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Talk:North Bay, Ontario

Canada
shd: Is this place in Canada? You should mention the country in all articles describing a place. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shd (talk • contribs) 7 February 2003.

Are you an idiot? Where do you think Ontario is? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.226.10.99 (talk • contribs) 1 October 2005.

 * Don't be rude. The person who posted this is from Finland, and probably isn't an expert on Canadian geography. And we do have to be as specific as possible on Wikipedia; we can never just assume that people have knowledge of where Ontario is, whether we think they should or not. Bearcat 05:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok, we must be rude, but the guy from Finland should know that Ontario is in Canada because it stated it earlier in the website. Jonathan Schmitt Sudbury, Ontario, Sony rules...

 * Each article on Wikipedia is an independent entity. There's no such thing as "earlier in the website". Bearcat 22:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Population
Whoever changed the population figure to 55,248, could you please provide a source? Wikipedia does not post random population estimates; we use actual census data. Which means, like it or not, that the 2001 population stays on the article until the 2006 census data is released. Bearcat 08:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Write more stuff
Hey somebody besides me should write more stuff on North Bay. There's not enough space for the pictures. We could remove some pictures but that would just be a crime. ColenFace 09:11, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Sources Needed
Great article, but no sources. It would be a shame to have to delete whole sections because of this. Anyone have any ideas on this? BFD1 01:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

No deletion of sections is warranted or necessary, a simple google search of the Studio 2 "talented towns" program aired on TVO in 2004 will verify their selection of North Bay as being a highly artistic community. Likewise, regarding the city's top employers, the city of North Bay website has a list of the city's top 100 employers and the top 10 employers are all from the public sector. This information is there for all to see if they just take a minute to find it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.179.9 (talk • contribs)

 * Thanks for your input. Those sources need to be cited in the article, it's not enough to assume the reader will go look them up himself. To assume so would kind of defy the logic of an encyclopedia. If you can add some links to the article, that would be great. (See WP:Cite for tips.) Otherwise, you could copy and paste the URLs to this talk page and I will place them into the article. BFD1  14:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

 * From what I have seen, as being a resident of North Bay, the people who are fixated with only using information that can be backed up by awful sources ruin the articles. I for one would like to see the sources that considers roads (being Cooks Mills, Feronia, and other garbage like that) "communities."  There is such thing as common knowledge information that if found in more than four sources does not need to be cited (unless a direct quote), but oh wait, wikipedia doesn't work this way like the rest of the academic world.  What a joke this is.  Also, many people consider web page articles (ones you can hyperlink) weak sources because in many cases they can not be verified, if it is from an online database, sure the person can leave a link but many databases like this require a paid login.  Last time i opened an encyclopedia to look something up (a book encyclopedia), the article did not have hyperlinks nor did it have sources written all over the place.  To do that and to cite bad sources in my mind would defy the logic of an encyclopedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.13.72.231 (talk) 21:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

New "Mayor" section.
I added a Mayor section because, well, because I live in North Bay and thought there should be a mayor section. Add what you want into this section as long as it's correct. Like if you know whenthere is a new mayor, write it in, and put past mayor's below. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Andokool12 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

Snow
why aren't there any pictures of north bay during winter. north bay has the longest coldest winters ever, and showing pictures of north bay during the summer is like trying to make it look nicer than it really is so people come here, like anyone would want to come to our little town anyways, freezing during the winter, covered in shadflies during what summer(what little amount of summer we have), not to mention the increasing bad weather each summer. was last summers tornado even mentioned on this page?

platinum blonde 05:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Last summers tornado was not mentioned because it was not actually a tornado, it was an intense storm with strong microbursts that would explain the fact that there was never a single path of anything destroyed but yet sporatic patches that got hit worse than others. And without photoshop how can they make it look nicer than it is, that is how it looks like in the summer, where is the bias, thats when a lot of the outdoor activities happen anyways.  I have an idea, how about you go out and take some pictures of the snow... but oh wait... its March and we have none.  By the way, it does reach 30C sometimes unless you only stay here for the winter and migrate south for the summer.  Also the shadfly season does not span the whole summer, its more like 2-4 weeks at most, and as far as I am concerned the weather has been getting better.  Do what you want, but you make little sense. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.13.72.231 (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

communities?
* Airport Hill * Birchaven * Camp Champlain * Champlain Park * Cooks Mills * Feronia * Ferris * Graniteville * Hornell Heights * Lounsbury * Marshall Park * Nipissing Junction * North Bay * Pinewood * Redbridge * Sunset Park * Thorncliff * Trout Mills * Widdifield those are the communities of north bay, where I live. i will say right now there are no separate communities in north bay, just areas/subdivisions. it just looks like the author ripped these names off the bus routes, which are going to be changed this summer as it is.

airport hill is not a community, it is a hill. if you are wondering what the name of the subdivision is up there, it is called wallace heights.

birchaven in a subdivision on trout lake. camp champlain is not a community but a campground on lake nipissing.

champlain park is a provincial park on highway 17 east.

cooks mills, i dont even know what that is.

feronia, once again, what is that?

ferris, yes there is a ferris, called West Ferris, it is one of the three communities that amalgamated in the 1960's to form the city of north bay.

graniteville, one again, a subdivision.

Hornell Heights is a busroute and the former name of the CFB base here until the city tokk over in the late 1990's.

lounsbury, dont know what that is.

Marshall Park, a part of West Ferris.

Nipissing Junction, an old mto inspection station on a road leading to callendar, as well a bus route ending at a strip club.

north bay, the city itself.

pinewood, once again, a subdivision.

redbridge, an independant village outside of north bay and a former bus route.

sunset park, a school in north bay.

thorncliff, dont know what that is.

trout mills, dont know what that is.

widdifield, one of the former three to make north bay, and a high school.

if you are going to post the "communities" of north bay, get them right please and dont just rip off bus route names

Speaking of which, if you are going to make it just out of the bus routes and bus display signs, i would like to see: College, Campus special, Lakeshore, Downtown, Overload, Waterfront, Thibault, Out of Service, welcome aboard, and "Welcome to north bay" as parts of north bay... Why not even include the bus model as an area, Orion V, MCI Classic, D40LF. I hear there is even an area called "Stop requested" and "wait until the green light to open the door" also "please exit via rear door" as well as "release lever to open emergency exit"

As for what was said above, it is totally correct, none of these "communities" have any reflection as to what this city is as a whole, many of them are streets and neighbourhoods and others are schools and bus routes as said before. I just wish the clowns that throw this garbage together would listen to the people in the area instead of assuming they are always right. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.64.11.244 (talk • contribs).

 * Hello, and thanks for your input. You've clearly outlined a problem with the article, namely that there is currently no reliable source for the information about communities. Thanks for taking the trouble to state the correct names here on the talk page. For now I am just going to remove the section from the article entirely. You can insert the community names as you have stated them above if you can provide a reliable source which verifies those name. This is simply a matter of procedure. Thanks again for your contributions - I hope you like wikipedia and decide to stick around! BFD1  15:48, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * On second thought, removing the "neighbourhoods" might be overkill. I am just going to tag the section as requiring citations for now. Cheers. BFD1  15:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * A lot of the neighbourhoods were taken from some maps I have. I think others users added some more. To verify their existance, I reccomend using the Statistics Canada website and typing them in to the search function with GeoSearch. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I would love to see these so called maps that considers Lakeshore drive and Marshall park drive an area of the city. I for one would love to see you verify your data as well and give support for it because... to be honest... it is totally wrong.  I live in North Bay and don't really feel like going out of my way to please someone like you who thinks they know my city.  As for the criedibility of wikipedia, I think it is awful because of know-it-all people like you who run it.  No wonder even High School kids are discouraged from using it as a source.  I can tell you one thing... that map you have is stating the roads in the outskirts such as Ferronia and Cooks Mills which I believe are off highway 63 which heads east towards Quebec.  Take a look for yourself... or maybe take a course on reading maps. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.187.25.125 (talk) 21:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Please be civil in your conversations with other editors. This really isn't the place for personal attacks, and carrying on in such a manner is liable to reduce your credibility, not help it. BFD1  18:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Feronia was formerly it's own township until absorbed by the city of North Bay. Feronia lies to the East of North Bay, along Highway 63, and falls between Penninsula Road and Widdifield Station Road, and borders the former Widdifield twp. to the North, with it's "commercial centre" in and around the intersection of Highway 63 and Four Mile Lake Road, where a train station/loading platform used to be. It is indeed currently part of North Bay, and at one point had a public rink and Feronia Public School (converted into a woodworking shop in the mid 1980's), both under the jurisdiction and maintained by the City of North Bay.

Sunset Park is a public school which was converted to a separate school, and relocated farther down Lakeshore Drive on the opposite side of the street. Sunset Park is also a city park at the end of Premier Road. Sunset Park is also the area along the shore of Lake Nippissing betwwen Booth Road and Sunset Point...To the best of my knowledge, I have never found any reference to a district specifically called Sunset Park...there is much room for interpretation, and no clear fact in the names of many "zones" listed above. Surely one can find sources to cite that will contradict each.

Clearly many of these have come from maps. Map Art Publishing (Heiler Map Corp.) shows many of these areas in road atlases and maps as late as 2004, including Trout Mills, Lounsbury, Hornell Heights, Cooks Mills, Nippissing Junction, Marshall Park, Camp Champlain, Thorncliff, Champlain Park, Widdifield, and Redbridge. Redbridge (Phelps twp.) meets North Bay at Songis Road, and on the map I have used for this information, Redbridge is shown inside of North Bay city boundaries. As I was born and raised here, I am quite familiar with the city, and can affirm that there are several residential areas which are commonly refered to by some of these names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.198.91 (talk) 15:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure where I should be inserting a paragraph about a debate over location but noticed the use of the Thorncliff area here so this is probably the most appropriate. In the article, I reworded where the CPR's first spike location was. As a matter of fact, I stated that it was up for debate. I encourage anyone who knows something about it to chime in. In the article, it is stated that Bonfield is the location of the first spike; and it may be. However, I have a friend who does research using CPR archives and governmental postal archives. He seems to think that Thorncliff is the approximate location of the first spike; and it may be. We did take photographs of what appeared to be station foundation there; again, that does not prove anything. If anyone knows anything about Bonfield, Callander, Callander Station and Thorncliff please contribute. Also, in conversation, we were discussing NosBONsing and NosBINsing. Those locations came up in conversation as well. I am interested in hearing what others have to say in order to fill this gap.Talrolande (talk) 00:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Inappropriate External Links
I have once again removed inappropriate external links from this article. Please see WP:EL for clarification on what kinds of links are appropriate. BFD1 14:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree, and have removed it once again. Remember, the burden of showing whether or not a specific website link meets the inclusion criteria of WP:External links lies with the person wishing to add the link. Discussion here would be welcome, of course. -- Satori Son 01:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

It's Birchaven, not Birch Haven
not only does the bus route spell it right, so does every website that involves the name as so:

http://northbayphoto.blogspot.com/2007/06/birchaven-cove-park-1st.html it has a City of North Bay sign that spells it directly

http://www.northbayclassifieds.com/view_ads.asp?category=Real%20Estate%20Sales it is referred to here as birchaven by a local resident selling his house

http://www.bestwesternontario.com/north-bay-attractions-lodging/ the Best Western North Bay referring to places to visit in the city

http://www.youronlineagents.com/ricksanderson/foundlistings.php a local Remax agent selling houses

http://sudbury.foundlocally.com/Sports/Rec-Beaches.htm Sudbury, a neighbour city, advertizing places to go swimming

Need I say more? This site prides itself of its accuracy, maybe the person who administers this page should check his.

Prominent People
I re-added Michael J. Fox to the list of prominent people who live or have lived in North Bay. I don't see why he was removed, he did live in North Bay for a few years when he was a child. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.179.9 (talk) 05:12, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Merge North Bay Nugget to this page?
There is a section for media on this page. Perhaps the North Bay Nugget page is redundant? It would eliminate a stub. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kville105125 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia's goal when it comes to stubs is to improve them into high-quality articles, not to eliminate them just for the sake of eliminating stubs. And media sections in city articles are always meant to be simple lists that link to independent articles about the individual media outlets; they should never by themselves turn into the only information we have on a major daily newspaper. Bearcat 18:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Importance rating
I have raised the importance rating on this article to "Mid", to be consistent with most of the other Ontario cities. PKT (talk) 22:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Parks
Would it be improper to place a list of the parks within North Bay here? If not, where would this list go? In a new category, or under something like neighborhoods? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ares C (talk • contribs) 16:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Prominent People
There should not be any people listed under this heading who do not have a wikipedia page. It is the minimum standard for other cities with prominent people categories and it should be the same for this page. Otherwise, everyone thinks they are a prominent person and it completely undermines the whole purpose of having such a category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.96.86.4 (talk) 12:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Please add Marc Pepin,I am on Wikipedia Tennis Investor (talk) 21:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Racial Demographics
Guys, I can't seem to figure out how to source something properly. I've posted info from the 2006 census, with the website link below it. If anyone can set this up properly, it would be appreciated. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.230.163.202 (talk) 00:28, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * While substantial ethnic background tables at the level of English vs. French vs. German are typically permitted in Wikipedia articles (although not without dissent), we don't include demographic data, sourced or not, that only provides the percentages of "white vs. aboriginal". Bearcat (talk) 18:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Subway station?
I don't believe it is accurate that North Bay has a single subway station still in operation to this day. How would a subway operate with only one station? I have attempted to verify if an old subway station is currently in use for some other purpose or if construction ever began on a subway in North Bay - No such luck. Snlev (talk) 01:24, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't begin to guess what it's about, either. Admittedly it's been a few years since I've actually been in North Bay personally, but there certainly wasn't a subway station anywhere in the city the last time I was there. In the absence of a source to confirm, consider it killed. Bearcat (talk) 01:48, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Mass Transit
I'd like to see more information here about the city's mass transit. Since there's a university and college there, it's safe to say that there'll be a significant number of people interested in low-cost transportation. Information that would be useful: Total city coverage. Does the transit cover only a few main streats? All of them? Does it include less busy streets? How often between busses? 3 - 10 minutes like Toronto? 20 - 60 minutes like Newmarket? I believe these questions pertain to just how useful the mass transit is. The York Region Transit, for example, is almost useless if you're just trying to move around within a small area (30 minutes walk) where as Toronto transit is very useful no matter where you live or where you're going to go.

So yeah, if I find this info elsewhere I may throw it up here. Otherwise, I hope someone else will add info as I think it'd be a valuable addition to the article. Khono (talk) 18:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

 * "Mass Transit" in the city is exclusively by bus. North Bay Transit operates from 2 locations in the city, one at Higway 11/17 (the bypass) and Seymour St, which is the maintenance and storage facility, the other at Oak St and Wyld St, downtown, where there is a small administration office/heated shelter (Transit Terminal).  Buses run from the downtown location begining as early as 06:00h, on schedules ranging from 30 to 60 minutes apart.  This continues throughout the day until 18:00h, at which time, all buses change to an hourly departure schedule, with service stopping by midnight for all routes.  Weekends and holidays, there is reduced service which ends at midnight Saturdays, and 06:00h on Sundays and Holidays.  There are a few statuatory holidays which there is no service at all (Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc.).  There are a total of 11 routes, 3 running South (red routes) 3 running East (green routes) and 3 running North (blue routes), with the remaining 2 routes servicing the college/university at the North end of the city.  The system is designed to collect passengers from the outlying areas, and transfer them to buses departing from the central transit terminal to their intended destination, servicing all major shopping. educational and residential areas within a few blocks (ie: a 5 minute walk should get you to a bus stop, from anywhere in the city).  Exact cash fare is $2.25 per passenger (children under 6 ride free with an accompanying adult) with monthly (30 days unlimited travel) and 10-trip passes (punch card) available through the administration office at the Oak/Wyld Terminal.  This is current as of January 2011.  Hopefully this is all that's needed to post pertinent transit info to the page. 24.235.198.91 (talk) 07:42, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Census data
Cannot verify the stats in the Community Profile section from either 2006 Census or 2001 Census

Didn't find total population or anything in the Mother tongue part is in either census? the rest seems to be from 2001

Where is this data from then? changed ref to "2001" and tag. -- Skullers (talk) 08:56, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

 * The numbers also don't add up. At least can we remove the "Klingon" line. --99.245.206.188 (talk) 02:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 4 January 2019
The North Bay Nugget is not a daily newspaper, it publishes a print version from Tuesday through Saturday. 192.186.81.178 (talk) 19:16, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. DannyS712 (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand what you are trying to do.
User:Magnolia677 has reverted addition of dates on the list of notable people, I do not agree with the reasons, or the logic.

I included the lifespans of the people on the list of Notable people at North Bay, Ontario. Some of these people are alive, some are dead. Their life span indicates what time these people were notable, and reveals something of the history of North Bay. I have accessed that information from the wikipedia pages on these people.

Are you suggesting that we can only include those dates if we repeat the references from the linked wikipedia pages. Are you suggesting that for every list of people, "Notable people", "People with this Surname" &c,. we can only include any information if we reference it on the secondary page. You removed dates because you say they are not referenced adequately. The list at North Bay assumes that the people have a connection to North Bay, there are no references for this on the North Bay Notable people list. The notable people list mentions their occupation/reason for notability, this is unreferenced. Therefore by your logic, unless each name on that list has a reference on that page for their connection to North Bay, and for their reason of notability, there should be no listing. The Notable People on that page don't have any references on that page. Should we remove the entire list? I am going to return my edit, reverse your undoing Brunswicknic (talk) 11:02, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * What I am trying to "do" is maintain one of the cornerstone policies of Wikipedia, which requires that additions to the encyclopedia be sourced. You have "sourced" the birthdays by copying them from the target article.  When I reverted your edit I told you in my edit summary you cannot source one Wikipedia article by citing another Wikipedia article, per WP:CIRC. So let's try this... with this edit you added that Kevin Frankish was born in 1964. If you look at the article for Kevin Frankish you will see that his birthday is unsourced.  This is why I mentioned CIRC in my edit summary; copying info from one poorly-sourced article and placing it into another article creates two poorly-sourced articles.  I have again reverted your unsourced edit.  If a consensus forms to allow you to add all the unsourced (and unnecessary) birthdays back into the article I will revert. Magnolia677 (talk) 13:53, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * To the OP: first, your signature is out of policy. Please fix it. It's required that your signature link to your userspace. If you don't use a custom signature, the default link is your talk page. Second, new content (which is what is under discussion here) which is disputed stays out until a consensus is reached (see WP:CONSENSUS and WP:BRD). The BURDEN is in the editor wanting the new content to convince those opposing by making arguments based in reliable secondary sources and Wikipedia policies and guidelines. You've not done that. Oppose any changes outside the guidelines imposed by NLIST and USCITIES. John from Idegon (talk) 00:30, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the signature, I was pasting from another page of talk, which I should of preambled (and as can be seen "(talk) 11:02, 28 May 2020 (UTC)"). Your use of the term OP is not helpful, I had no idea what it meant initially. Secondly new content, these are existing dates from the articles that the list of Notable People is made from. The list of Notable People here is based on the existence of wikipedia pages and the info contained within them. Dates, speaking as a wikipedia reader and a professional academic, give a framework for information. Without the dates, then we have a list of names from the history of North Bay, are they contemporary people or are they founders of the city? Are they alive, active, or are they dead. Both you and Magnolia677 say "reliable sources"/"wikipedia is not a reliable source" Yet, the whole list is based on these people having wikipedia articles, wikipedia is the source, and wikipedia allows this, see NLIST. You cite protocols, even when other wikipedia protocols state that they are not relevant. You cite consensus, when someone reverts all of an edit because of what they see as a partial error, if fact Magnolia677 is able to cite only one unsourced birtdate, and did not remove it from the original page. I did. You cite USCITIES, I don't know if you are aware of this, but North Bay, Ontario, is not in the USA. Furthermore, that WP (USCITIES) states reasons for inclusion, it does not mention dates, inclusion or exclusion. It does say that the reason for that persons link to the city must be included on a list of Notable People, as does NLIST. There is one single example of this on the North Bay list, and it is a duplication and irregular item.Brunswicknic (talk) 07:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * So where are we? There is a Notable People list in the North Bay, Ontario. It does not follow the protocols of NLIST. I attempted to improve the utility of the list to the reader by adding dates, adding reasons of notability, removing sexist and redundant terms, and removing a duplicated name. This was entirely reverted on the basis that I included unsourced material, i.e. dates. As the whole list contains material that is only sourced to wikipedia, "wikipedia is not a reliable source", I followed instructions and deleted the whole list. That was reverted, fair enough, it was an attempt of reductio ad absurdum. So, you 2 editors don't like dates on your list of Notable People because... you 2 editors don't like dates on your list of Notable People, you do however like sexist language, you like lists of Notable People that do not follow wikipedia policy, you like redundant info, you like duplication on your notable people list. You do not welcome constructive editing. You alienate and drive people away from editing and reading Wikipedia. Brunswicknic (talk) 07:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of North Bay Police Service into North Bay, Ontario
Not much on the North Bay Police Service, mostly infobox material like budget and # of employees. Seems like it could be suitably included on North Bay, Ontario. Apocheir (talk) 01:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 10:22, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Scott Pilgrim
This town is referenced in an episode of Scott Pilgrim. Is it notable for inclusion in this article? NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 05:35, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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Dorothy Clutterbuck

Dorothy Clutterbuck (19 January 1880 – 12 January 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939. She has therefore become a figure of some significance in the history of Wicca.

Clutterbuck was a practising Anglican Christian, and never identified herself as a witch. Researchers have debated whether the surviving evidence of her own writings indicates that she had any unconventional religious leanings at all.

Biography
Clutterbuck was born in British India, and was the daughter of Thomas St. Quentin Clutterbuck, a British army officer. After her father's retirement, she appears to have moved back to England and to have lived with him in the Christchurch area of the New Forest in southern England. After her father's death, she continued to live in the same house alone, but at the age of 55 she married Rupert Fordham, a local Justice of the Peace who was of high rank in the Salvation Army. Fordham died in May 1939 in a car accident.

Clutterbuck appears to have been an outwardly respectable member of the local community, a supporter of the Conservative Party and the Church of England. She left a sizeable legacy to the local Anglican priest in her will. Her estate was valued at £60,000, a very large sum for the time. The one scandal attached to her was an allegation that Rupert Fordham was already married to a mentally ill woman, so that the two were not legally married. Clutterbuck had reverted to her maiden name by the time of her death.

Clutterbuck and Wicca
After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claimed to have been initiated in September 1939. Gardner referred to her only as "Old Dorothy" in his publications, but gave her full name to personal acquaintances. Gardner's statements were interpreted by his pupil Doreen Valiente as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as Philip Heselton and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grimes. Some writers, such as historian Jeffrey Russell, suggested that "Old Dorothy" had been invented by Gardner, but Valiente, knowing her full name, obtained her birth, marriage and death certificates and published a basic outline of her life in 1985 to prove that she really existed.

It continues to be debated whether Gardner's claims that Clutterbuck was involved in pagan witchcraft were true, or whether Gardner used the name of a respectable local worthy as a private joke and to distract attention from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes. Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been involved in Gardner's activities, in particular because of her apparent commitment to Christianity. Hutton also points out that the date of Gardner's initiation would coincide with a period of mourning in 1939 when she had cancelled all other social engagements. Conversely, Philip Heselton has concluded that Clutterbuck definitely was involved in occult activities, and that her practice of Christianity was social and conventional in nature. The principal body of evidence to which both sides appeal is provided by Clutterbuck's own diaries.

The diaries
Clutterbuck left three volumes of diaries, which are actually more similar to commonplace books, filled with daily poems and illustrations and intended to be read by visitors to her home.

The researchers Ronald Hutton and Philip Heselton have both read Clutterbuck's diaries, and have come to entirely different conclusions on their contents. Hutton believes that Clutterbuck's poems show her to be a "simple" and "kindly" woman with no connections with paganism or the occult. Heselton, on the other hand, believes that her writings reveal that "Dorothy was a pagan in all but name."

The evidence cited by Heselton and his supporters consists both of the absence of overt Christian themes and the apparent presence of pagan sentiments. Heselton notes that "there is hardly a mention of Jesus and it seems as if her deepest spiritual experiences come from nature and, particularly, her garden." Little Christian sentiment is expressed, even on Christian holidays. Of the few direct references to Christianity, this for Whit Sunday 1942 is characteristically oblique:
 * "The Sunday that comes in the time of the May
 * With its crown of white blossoms for this sacred day
 * The Essence of this Day – The Spirit of Prayer
 * Brings to us those loved Spirits who used to be here"
 * [ 1942-05-24 ]

"Midsummer," Heselton says "is lauded as 'the day of all days most dear'". Nature and the feelings of magical enchantment that come from it are commonly repeated themes, as is the theme of a fairy-like dancing maiden, often referred to as 'the Queen', who seems to personify the seasons and the land. For example:
 * "... I knew you were a vision
 * The loveliest ever seen
 * But I also knew that you were Real
 * And of my heart, the Queen."
 * [ 1943-10-27 ]

 * "I am waiting for my Lady
 * For, down the pathway shadey
 * I think I hear her footfall light
 * My heart beats wildly with delight
 * I cannot wait – the minutes drag
 * Just when I'm in despair
 * Dear Heaven! She is coming! And now She's here! She's here!"
 * [ 1942-07-30 ]
 * [ 1942-07-30 ]

 * "Of all the Ladies that I know
 * There's only one can please me so
 * That all her Looks and all her Ways
 * Make Music for me all my Days.
 * For Life, I love her, and adore
 * I only saw her once – not more
 * But once I saw her, as I say
 * But once she crossed my Path, my Way
 * For Ever. She will be my Queen
 * Where did I see her? – in a Dream."
 * [ 1943-06-21 (Midsummer Eve) ]

The diaries also contain frequent references to fairies and the full moon; bits of herb-lore, and occasionally vivid descriptions of classical gods such as Aurora. Other examples seem more ambiguous, and could equally express Christian or Pagan sentiment, or simple poetic metaphor:
 * "Then with a flash of Scarlet
 * Sweeping across the snows
 * Comes Christmas, Radiant Creature!
 * She's laughing as she goes. The shining holly fills her lap
 * Blue pages hold her train
 * Dear Time of lovely memories. So here you are again
 * There stand the glittering Christmas Trees
 * The Fires flame and glow
 * Soft fingers tapping on the pane
 * Are fairies, made of snow
 * The Bells ring out, The Carols mount
 * All the old songs are dear
 * The First Most Sacred Festival
 * The best of all the year"
 * [ Christmas 1942 ]

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title: Dorothy Clutterbuck


text:
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

Holy Cross Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

It is partially in the Culver City city limits.

Opened in 1939, Holy Cross comprises 200 acre. It contains—amongst others—the graves and tombs of showbusiness professionals. Many celebrities are in the sections near "The Grotto" in the southwest part of the cemetery.

A

 * Gypsy Abbott (1896–1952), actress
 * Jean Acker (1893–1978), actress, first wife of Rudolph Valentino
 * Frank Albertson (1909–1964), actor
 * Sara Allgood (1879–1950), actress
 * Cecilia Alvear (1939–2017), journalist
 * Ramsay Ames (1919–1998), actress
 * Tod Andrews (1914–1972), actor
 * Richard Arlen (1899–1976), actor
 * Henry Armetta (1888–1945), actor
 * Mary Astor (1906–1987), actress

B

 * Fred Baczewski (1926–1976), Major League Baseball player
 * Joan Banks (1918–1998), actress
 * Sam Barry (1892–1950), Hall of Fame basketball coach
 * John Beradino (1917–1996), actor, Major League Baseball player
 * Johnny Bero (1922–1985), Major League Baseball player
 * Sally Blane (1910–1997), actress
 * Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1916–1982), department store heir, had affair with model Vicki Morgan, a murder victim
 * Betsy Bloomingdale (1922–2016), widow of Alfred Bloomingdale, socialite and author
 * Joseph Bodner (1925–1982), American illustrator and painter
 * Roman Bohnen (1901–1949), actor
 * Ray Bolger (1904–1987), actor and dancer best known for his role of The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
 * Fortunio Bonanova (1895–1969), actor
 * Charles Boyer (1899–1978), actor
 * Scott Brady (1924–1985), actor
 * Keefe Brasselle (1923–1981), actor, producer and writer
 * Joseph Breen (1890–1965), former head of the Production Code Administration
 * Argentina Brunetti (1907–2005), actress
 * Sonny Burke (1914–1980), bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer
 * Daws Butler (1916–1988), actor and voice-over artist best known for voicing Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and others

C

 * John Candy (1950–1994), actor and comedian
 * Macdonald Carey (1913–1994), actor
 * Walter Catlett (1889–1960), actor
 * Hobart Cavanaugh (1886–1950), actor
 * Marguerite Chapman (1918–1999), actress
 * D. Worth Clark (1902–1955), U.S. Senator (1939–1945) from Idaho
 * Ruth Clifford (1900–1998), actress
 * Bill Cody (1891–1948), actor
 * Pinto Colvig (1892–1967), actor and voice-over artist
 * Joe Connelly (1917–2003), television writer and producer
 * Jackie Coogan (1914–1984), actor
 * Charles Correll (1890–1972), actor and comedian
 * Jeanne Coyne (1923–1973), actress, dancer and choreographer
 * Darby Crash (1958–1980), musician
 * Bing Crosby (1903–1977), actor and singer (Father of Dennis, Lindsay, Phillip Crosby)
 * Dennis Crosby (1934–1991), actor and singer (Son of Bing Crosby)
 * Lindsay Crosby (1938–1989), actor and singer (Son of Bing Crosby)
 * Phillip Crosby (1934–2004), actor and singer (Son of Bing Crosby)
 * Leo Cullum (1942–2010), cartoonist
 * Dick Curtis (1902–1952), actor

D

 * Mona Darkfeather (1883–1977), actress
 * Joan Davis (1907–1961), actress and comedian
 * Virginia Davis (1918–2009), child actress
 * Bobby Day (1928–1990), singer
 * Dennis Day (1916–1988), actor, singer and comedian
 * Pedro de Cordoba (1881–1950), actor
 * Fred de Cordova (1910–2001), director and producer
 * Eadie Del Rubio (1921–1996), musician
 * Elena Del Rubio (1921–2001), musician
 * Milly Del Rubio (1921–2011), musician
 * Jean Del Val (1891–1975), actor
 * Ralph DePalma (1892–1956), champion racecar driver, won 1915 Indianapolis 500, inducted into International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1991
 * Johnny Desmond (1919–1985), actor and singer
 * John Doucette (1921–1994), actor
 * Constance Dowling (1920–1969), actress
 * Doris Dowling (1923–2004), actress
 * William Dozier (1908–1991), producer best known for creating the TV series Batman
 * Tom Drake (1918–1982), actor
 * Al Dubin (1891–1945), songwriter
 * Jimmy Durante (1893–1980), actor and comedian
 * Mervyn Dymally (1926–2012), former Lieutenant Governor of California and U.S. Congressman from California.

E

 * Vince Edwards (1928–1996), actor
 * Richard Egan (1921–1987), actor

F

 * John Fante (1909–1983), novelist, short-story and screenwriter.
 * John Farrow (1904–1963), director, husband of actress Maureen O'Sullivan, father of actress Mia Farrow
 * Emily Fitzroy (1860–1954), actress
 * James Flavin (1906–1976), actor
 * Joe Flynn (1924–1974), actor and comedian
 * George J. Folsey (1898–1988), cinematographer
 * Francis Ford (1881–1959), actor, writer and director
 * John Ford (1894–1974), director
 * Paul Ford (1901–1976), actor
 * Wallace Ford (1898–1966), actor
 * Victoria Forde (1896–1964), actress
 * Norman Foster (1900–1976), actor and director
 * Gene Fowler (1890–1960), writer
 * Mary Frann (1943–1998), actress
 * Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (1904–1970), twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt

G

 * Richard "Skeets" Gallagher (1891–1955), actor
 * William Garity (1899–1971), sound engineer
 * Pauline Garon (1900–1965), actress
 * Mike Gazella (1895–1978), MLB player
 * Charles Gemora (1903–1961), actor and stuntman
 * Margaret Gibson (1894–1964), actress
 * Gaston Glass (1899–1965), actor
 * James Gleason (1882–1959), actor
 * Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (1922–2000), actor
 * Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez (1925–2006), actor
 * Bonita Granville (1923–1988), actress
 * Gilda Gray (1901–1959), actress and dancer
 * Robert Greig (1879–1958), actor
 * Fathia Ghali (1930–1976), princess of Egypt

H

 * Jack Haley (1898–1979), actor and comedian best known for his role of The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz
 * Jack Haley Jr. (1933–2001), director, producer and writer
 * Joe Hamilton (1929–1991), producer
 * Kipp Hamilton (1934–1981), actress
 * Fred Haney (1898–1977), MLB player and manager
 * Juanita Hansen (1895–1961), actress
 * Neal Hart (1879-1949), actor and director
 * Henry Hathaway (1898–1985), director and producer
 * June Haver (1926–2005), actress
 * Allison Hayes (1930–1977), actress
 * Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), actress and dancer
 * Chick Hearn (1916–2002), sports broadcaster
 * Emmaline Henry (1928–1979), actress
 * Hugh Herbert (1887–1952), actor and comedian
 * Dwayne Hickman (1934–2022), actor
 * Barron Hilton (1927–2019), business executive
 * Conrad Hilton Jr. (1926–1969), business executive and TWA director, heir of Hilton Hotel chain
 * Taylor Holmes (1878–1959), actor
 * Stan Hough (1918–1990), former vice-president of 20th Century Fox

I

 * Earl Michael Irving (1953–2022), diplomat
 * Amparo Iturbi (1899–1969), composer and concert pianist
 * José Iturbi (1895–1980), composer and concert pianist

J

 * Rita Johnson (1913–1965), actress
 * Spike Jones (1911–1965), musician and comedian
 * Jim Jordan (1896–1988), actor and comedian
 * Marian Jordan (1898–1961), actress and comedian

K

 * Herbert Kalmus (1881–1963), co-inventor of Technicolor
 * Robert Keith (1898–1966), actor
 * Paul Kelly (1899–1956), actor
 * Charles Kemper (1900–1950), actor
 * Edgar Kennedy (1890–1948), actor and comedian
 * J. M. Kerrigan (1884–1964), actor
 * Norman Kerry (1894–1956), actor
 * Cammie King (1934–2010), child actress
 * Henry King (1886–1982), director
 * James Kirkwood Sr. (1875–1963), actor and director
 * Helen Kleeb (1907–2003), actress

L

 * Jack La Rue (1902–1984), actor
 * Sir Lancelot (1902–2001), singer
 * Mario Lanza (1921–1959), actor and singer
 * Eddie Laughton (1903–1952), actor
 * Tim Layana (1964–1999), MLB pitcher
 * Dorothy Leavey (1897–1998), philanthropist
 * Dixie Lee (1909–1952) actress, dancer and singer (Bing Crosby's first wife)
 * Jimmy Lennon (1913–1992), sports announcer
 * Joan Leslie (1925-2015), actress
 * Nick Licata (1897–1974), mobster
 * Margaret Lindsay (1910–1981), actress
 * David Lloyd (1934–2009), screenwriter
 * Gene Lockhart (1891–1957), actor
 * Kathleen Lockhart (1894–1978), actress
 * Ella Logan (1913–1969), actress and singer
 * Frank Lovejoy (1912–1962), actor
 * Peanuts Lowrey (1917–1986), MLB outfielder
 * Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), actor
 * William Lundigan (1914–1975), actor

M

 * Donald MacBride (1889–1957), actor
 * Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973), screenwriter
 * Fred MacMurray (1908–1991), actor
 * Gene Mako (1916–2013), tennis player
 * Effa Manley (1897–1981), owner of Newark Eagles
 * Eddie Mannix (1891–1963), movie studio executive
 * Toni Mannix (1906–1983), wife of Eddie Mannix
 * George Marshall (1891–1975), director
 * Harry Martin (1889–1951), medical director of 20th Century Fox Studios and third husband of Louella Parsons
 * Marion Martin (1909–1985), actress
 * Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871–1946), artist, educator
 * Al Martino (1927–2009), singer
 * Rudolph Maté (1898–1964), cinematographer and director
 * May McAvoy (1899–1984), actress
 * Leo McCarey (1898–1969), director
 * Christine McIntyre (1911–1984), actress
 * David McLean (1922–1995), actor
 * Stephen McNally (1913–1994), actor
 * Audrey Meadows (1922–1996), actress
 * Ann Miller (1923–2004), actress, singer, dancer
 * Millard Mitchell (1903–1953), actor
 * James V. Monaco (1885–1945), composer
 * Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), actor
 * Carlotta Monti (1907–1993), actress
 * Thelma Morgan (1904–1970), socialite, twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, aunt of fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt
 * James C. Morton (1884–1942), actor
 * Alan Mowbray (1896–1969), actor
 * Jack Mulhall (1887–1979), actor
 * Richard Murphy (1912–1993), screenwriter, director and producer
 * Jim Murray (1919–1998), sportswriter
 * Nicholas Musuraca (1892–1975), cinematographer

N

 * Anne Nagel (1915–1966), actress
 * Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), actor
 * Grete Natzler (1906–1999), actress and singer
 * Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967), actress
 * Fred C. Newmeyer (1881–1967), director

O

 * Edmond O'Brien (1915–1985), actor
 * Pat O'Brien (1899–1983), actor
 * Helen O'Connell (1920–1993), singer
 * Rod O'Connor (1914–1964), announcer
 * Walter O'Malley (1903–1979), baseball executive, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Barney Oldfield (1878–1946), race car driver, actor
 * Kid Ory (1886–1973), trombonist and bandleader, Dixieland jazz

P

 * Robert Paige (1911–1987), actor
 * George Pal (1908–1980), director, producer and animator
 * Erv Palica (1928–1982), MLB pitcher
 * Hermes Pan (1910–1990), choreographer and dancer
 * Louella Parsons (1881–1972), writer and columnist
 * Marty Pasetta (1932–2015), television producer and director
 * Pat Paterson (1910–1978), actress
 * Chris Penn (1965–2006), actor
 * Leo Penn (1921–1998), actor and director
 * Jean Peters (1926–2000), actress
 * ZaSu Pitts (1894–1963), actress and comedian
 * John Polich (1916–2001), NHL player
 * Paul Porcasi (1879–1946), actor
 * Jerry Priddy (1919–1980), MLB second baseman
 * Dick Purcell (1908–1944), actor

R

 * Rosa Raisa (1893–1963), opera singer
 * Alejandro Rey (1930–1987), actor
 * Kane Richmond (1906–1973), actor
 * Hayden Rorke (1910–1987), actor
 * Rip Russell (1915–1976), MLB infielder and outfielder
 * Rosalind Russell (1907–1976), actress
 * Eileen Ryan (1927–2022), actress
 * Faiza Rauf (1923–1994) princess of Egypt

S

 * Nazli Sabri (1894–1978), former Queen consort of Egypt.
 * Gia Scala (1934–1972), actress
 * Fred F. Sears (1913–1957), actor and director
 * Dorothy Sebastian (1903–1957), actress
 * Edward Sedgwick (1889–1953), actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Miriam Seegar (1907–2011), actress
 * John F. Seitz (1892–1979), cinematographer and inventor.
 * Mack Sennett (1880–1960), mogul
 * Frank Shannon (1874–1959), actor
 * Diane Sherbloom (1942–1961), figure skater
 * Margarita Sierra (1936–1963), singer and actress
 * Robert Six (1907–1986), former CEO of Continental Airlines
 * Miriam Snitzer (1922–1966), actress
 * Manuel Sorola (1880–1957), first Hispanic FBI agent.
 * Jo Stafford (1917–2008), singer
 * Harry Stradling (1901–1970), cinematographer
 * Edmund Sylvers (1957–2004), singer

T

 * Doris Tate (1924–1992), anti-parole activist, mother of Sharon Tate
 * Sharon Tate (1943–1969), actress murdered by the Manson family, along with her unborn son Paul Richard Polanksi
 * Dallas Taylor (1948–2015), drummer
 * Ray Teal (1902–1976), actor
 * Dewey Terry (1938–2003), musician
 * George Trafton (1896–1971), NFL player

V

 * Joseph Valentine (1900–1949), cinematographer
 * Mabel Van Buren (1878–1947), actress
 * Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (1904–1965), socialite, twin sister of Thelma Morgan, mother of fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt
 * Joe Viterelli (1937–2004), actor
 * Virginia Davis (1919-2009), actor

W

 * Geraldine Wall (1912–1970), actress
 * Robert Warwick (1878–1964), actor
 * Bryant Washburn (1889–1963), actor
 * Ned Washington (1901–1976), songwriter
 * Bernie Wayne (1919–1993), songwriter
 * Lawrence Welk (1903–1992), musician
 * Paul Weston (1912–1996), bandleader, arranger and composer
 * Tim Whelan (1893–1957), director and screenwriter
 * William R. Wilkerson (1890–1962), founder of The Hollywood Reporter, Flamingo Hotel and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's
 * Mary Wilson (1944–2021), singer; founding member of The Supremes
 * Paula Winslowe (1910–1996), actress
 * Jack Wrather (1918–1984), investor

Y

 * Georgiana Young (1923–2007), actress
 * Loretta Young (1913–2000), actress
 * Polly Ann Young (1908–1997), actress

title: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City


text:
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery

The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, United States. Many Jewish people from the entertainment industry are buried here. The cemetery is known for Al Jolson's elaborate tomb (designed by Los Angeles architect Paul Williams), a 75-foot-high pergola and monument atop a hill above a water cascade, all visible from the adjacent San Diego Freeway.

History
Built on 35 acres of rolling hills in an undeveloped area near Inglewood, the cemetery was originally founded as B'nai B'rith Memorial Park in 1941 by Lazare F. Bernhard and Robert S. and Harry Groman, founders of Groman Mortuaries in 1936 and sons of Charles Groman, who co-founded the first licensed Jewish mortuary west of Chicago, Glasband-Groman-Glasband, before it was renamed "Hillside Memorial Park" in 1942. Because of objections by the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce, they were not granted a permit to operate by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors until July 1943.

In 1951 the park became famous when Al Jolson's widow, Erle, purchased a large plot and had erected a 75-foot-high domed monument in his memory. Thousands attended the dedication and service, which included a eulogy by Jack Benny.

After a bitter legal dispute between the Groman brothers, and Robert's death in 1957, the park was acquired by Temple Israel of Hollywood, which continues to own and operate it.

Jack Benny's funeral in 1974 included a eulogy by Bob Hope and was attended by over 2000 people, including dozens of well-known members of the entertainment community. Major figures in the worlds of philanthropy, women's rights, law, education, medicine and religion are interred at Hillside, some of whom are listed below.

A
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 * Irving Aaronson (1895–1963), composer
 * Aron Abrams (1960–2010), television producer and writer
 * Russ Alben (1929–2012), advertising executive and composer
 * Van Alexander (1915–2015), musician
 * Corey Allen (1934–2010), actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 * Sheldon Allman (1924–2002), actor, singer and songwriter
 * DJ AM (1973–2009), disc jockey
 * Maria Altmann (1916–2011), refugee
 * Army Archerd (1922–2009), journalist and television host

B

 * Burt Bacharach (1928-2023), singer, songwriter, pianist
 * Frank Bank (1942–2013), actor
 * Sandy Baron (1936–2001), actor and comedian
 * Gene Barry (1919–2009), actor
 * Leonard Beerman (1921–2014), Reform rabbi
 * Jack Benny (1894–1974), actor and comedian
 * Henry Bergman (1868–1946), actor
 * Milton Berle (1908–2002), actor and comedian
 * Pandro S. Berman (1905–1996), producer and former head of RKO Radio Pictures
 * Shelley Berman (1925–2017), actor and comedian
 * Ted Berman (1919–2001), animator and director
 * Helen Beverley (1916–2011), actress
 * Theodore Bikel (1924–2015), actor and singer
 * Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981), musician
 * Ben Blue (1901–1975), actor and comedian
 * Neil Bogart (1943–1982), founder of Casablanca Records
 * Sorrell Booke (1930–1994), actor
 * Barbara Bosson (1939–2023), actress
 * Saul Brandman (1925–2008), garment manufacturer
 * Irving Brecher (1914–2008), screenwriter, producer, director
 * Andrew Breitbart (1969–2012), political commentator
 * Bernie Brillstein (1931–2008), producer and talent agent
 * Richard Brooks (1912–1992), director
 * Marion Byron (1911–1985), actress

C

 * Susan Cabot (1927–1986), actress
 * Eddie Cantor (1892–1964), actor, comedian, and singer
 * Nell Carter (1948–2003), actress and singer
 * Gilbert Cates (1934–2011), director and producer
 * Jeff Chandler (1918–1961), actor
 * Cyd Charisse (1922–2008), actress and dancer
 * Robert Clary (1926–2022), actor, singer
 * Ronni Chasen (1946–2010), publicist
 * June Clayworth (1912–1993), actress
 * Carl Cohen (1913–1986), businessman
 * Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), mobster
 * Norm Crosby (1927–2020), comedian

D

 * Ike Danning (1905–1983), Major League Baseball player
 * Valentine Davies (1905–1961), screenwriter
 * Danny Dayton (1923–1999), actor
 * Selma Diamond (1920–1985), actress and comedian

E

 * Hilda Eisen (1917–2017), businessperson and philanthropist
 * Julius J. Epstein (1909–2000), screenwriter
 * Philip G. Epstein (1909–1952), screenwriter

F

 * Max Factor Sr. (1877–1938), cosmetics magnate
 * Max Factor Jr. (1904–1996), cosmetics businessman
 * Percy Faith (1908–1976), musician
 * Isadore Familian (1911–2002), faucet manufacturer
 * Edith Flagg (1919–2014), fashion designer and businesswoman.
 * Rhonda Fleming (1923–2020), actress
 * Moe Franklin (1914–1978), Major League Baseball player
 * Arthur Freed (1894–1973), producer and songwriter
 * Friz Freleng (1906–1995), animator

G

 * Mary Leona Gage (1939–2010), beauty queen
 * Larry Gelbart (1928–2009), television writer
 * Sid Gillman (1911–2003), Hall of Fame football coach
 * Bernard Gilmore (1937–2013), composer
 * William Goetz (1903–1969), producer and former head of Universal Studios
 * Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004), composer
 * Mark Goodson (1915–1992), producer
 * Eydie Gormé (1928–2013), singer
 * Gogi Grant (1924–2016), singer
 * Carl Greenberg (1908–1984), newspaper reporter and editor
 * Hank Greenberg (1911–1986), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
 * Lorne Greene (1915–1987), actor
 * Brad Grey (1957–2017), film producer

H

 * Marilyn Hall (1927–2017), producer
 * Monty Hall (1921–2017), game show host
 * Elliot Handler (1916–2011), businessman
 * Ruth Handler (1916–2002), inventor of the Barbie doll
 * Lou Holtz (1893–1980), actor and comedian
 * Moe Howard (1897–1975), actor, comedian, and member of the Three Stooges

I

 * Sally Insul (1916–2008), actress

J

 * Arthur P. Jacobs (1922–1973), film producer
 * Jimmy Jacobs (1930–1988), handball player and boxing manager
 * David Janssen (1931–1980), actor
 * George Jessel (1898–1981), actor and comedian
 * Al Jolson (1886–1950), actor and singer

K

 * Mickey Katz (1909–1985), comedy bandleader
 * Sam Katzman (1901–1973), producer and director
 * Larry King (1933–2021), television host and radio host
 * Sammi Kane Kraft (1992–2012), actress and musician
 * Philip N. Krasne (1905–1999), producer
 * Paul Kohner (1902–1988), producer
 * Sidney Korshak (1907–1996), labor lawyer and Chicago "fixer"

L

 * Ely Landau (1920–1993), producer
 * Jon Landau (1960-2024), film producer
 * Mark Landon (1948–2009), musician, actor
 * Michael Landon (1936–1991), actor
 * Abe Lastfogel (1898–1984), Chairman of the William Morris talent agency
 * Steve Lawrence (1935-2024), actor and comedian
 * Jerry Leiber (1933–2011), songwriter
 * Sheldon Leonard (1907–1997), actor and producer
 * A. Fredric Leopold (1900–2008), lawyer and Mayor of Beverly Hills
 * Sammy Lerner (1903–1989), songwriter
 * Sol Lesser (1890–1980), film producer
 * Jules Levy (1923–2003), producer
 * Peggy Lipton (1946–2019), actress
 * Mary Livingstone (1905–1983), actress and comedian

M

 * Abby Mann (1927–2008), screenwriter
 * Daniel Mann (1912–1991), director
 * Ted Mann (1916–2001), businessman and film executive
 * Hal March (1920–1970), actor and comedian
 * Trudy Marshall (1920–2004), actress
 * Tony Martin (1913–2012), actor and singer
 * Marvin Mitchelson (1928–2004), attorney
 * Howard Morris (1919–2005), actor and comedian
 * Vic Morrow (1929–1982), actor
 * Jan Murray (1916–2006), actor and comedian

N

 * Monica von Neumann (1964–2019), socialite
 * Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015), actor
 * Shelly Novack (1944–1978), actor and football player
 * Louis Nye (1913–2005), actor and comedian

O

 * David Opatoshu (1918–1996), actor

P

 * Norman Panama (1914–2003), director
 * Joe Pasternak (1901–1991), producer
 * Don Payne (1964–2013), screenwriter
 * Poldek Pfefferberg (1913–2001), Holocaust survivor
 * Julia Phillips (1944–2002), author and producer
 * Paul Pink (1908–1996), founder of Pink's Hot Dogs
 * Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008), actress
 * Tom Poston (1921–2007), actor

R

 * Deborah Raffin (1953–2012), actress and audiobook publisher
 * Irving Reis (1906–1953), radio producer, radio and film director
 * Paul Richards (1924–1974), actor
 * Harry Richman (1895–1972), singer and actor
 * Leo Robin (1900–1984), composer
 * Sid Rogell (1900–1973), producer
 * Stanley Ralph Ross (1935–2000), writer and actor
 * Benny Rubin (1899–1986), actor
 * Jerry Rubin (1938–1994), Yippie turned businessman, member of the Chicago Seven
 * Barney Ruditsky (1898–1962), New York City detective turned Hollywood private investigator.

S

 * Mort Sahl (1927–2021), comedian
 * Billy Sands (1911–1984), actor
 * Connie Sawyer (1912–2018), actress
 * Sherwood Schwartz (1916–2011), television producer; creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch
 * Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), theatrical producer
 * Freddie Sessler (1923–2000), entrepreneur
 * Dan Seymour (1915–1993), actor
 * Dick Shawn (1923–1987), actor and comedian
 * Allan Sherman (1924–1973), actor, comedian, and singer
 * Robert B. Sherman (1925–2012), songwriter
 * Dinah Shore (1916–1994), singer, actress and television host (partial cremated remains)
 * Sammy Shore (1927–2019), comedian
 * Julius Shulman (1910–2009), architectural photographer
 * George Sidney (1916–2002), film director and producer
 * Sol C. Siegel (1903–1982), film producer
 * Al Silvera (1935–2002), Major League Baseball player
 * Aaron Spelling (1923–2006), producer
 * Harry Sukman (1912–1984), film and television composer
 * Bud Swartz (1929–1991), Major League Baseball player
 * Lela Swift (1919–2015), director and producer

T

 * Konrad Tom (1887–1957), actor, director, singer, and writer
 * Peter Tomarken (1942–2006), television host
 * Lupita Tovar (1910–2016), actress

W

 * Irving Wallace (1916–1990), author
 * Jack M. Warner (1916–1995), film producer
 * Simon Waronker (1915–2005), record producer, co-founder of Liberty Records
 * Lew Wasserman (1913–2002), agent, studio executive
 * Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984), songwriter
 * Jerry Weintraub (1937–2015), talent agent, concert promoter, film producer
 * Shelley Winters (1920–2006), actress
 * Stan Winston (1946–2008), makeup artist
 * Dennis Wolfberg (1946–1994), actor and comedian
 * Sol M. Wurtzel (1890–1958), film producer

Y

 * William Gary Young (1950-1970), PFC, United States Marine Corps

Z
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 * Sam Zimbalist (1904–1958), film editor
 * Sandra Zober (1927–2011), actress
 * Darrell Zwerling (1928–2014), actor

title: Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery


text:
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue.

The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later renamed to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.

Though not exclusive to public figures, the cemetery has become the final resting place of many Hollywood actors and those in the entertainment industry. Prominent interred figures include Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, Ray Bradbury, and Kirk Douglas.

A

 * Kip Addotta (1944–2019), comedian
 * Milton Ager (1893–1979), musician, composer
 * Charles Aidman (1925–1993), actor
 * Eddie Albert (1906–2005), actor
 * Margo Albert (1917–1985), actress, wife of Eddie Albert
 * Shana Alexander (1925–2005), journalist, columnist, television commentator
 * Claud Allister (1888–1970), actor
 * Gitta Alpár (1903–1991), actress, opera singer
 * Richard Anderson (1926–2017), actor, co-star of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman
 * Patty Andrews (1918–2013), singer
 * Tige Andrews (1920–2007), actor
 * Ken Annakin (1914–2009), director
 * Eve Arden (1908–1990), actress, comedian
 * Jack Arnold (1916–1992), director
 * Robert Armstrong (1890–1973), actor
 * James Aubrey (1918–1994), producer
 * Hy Averback (1920–1997), director
 * Lew Ayres (1908–1996), actor

B

 * Henny Backus (1911–2004), author, wife of Jim Backus
 * Jim Backus (1913–1989), actor
 * Richard Baer (1928–2008), screenwriter
 * Dave Barbour (1912–1965), musician
 * Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), actor
 * Patricia Barry (1921–2016), actor
 * Eileen Barton (1924–2006), singer
 * Richard Basehart (1914–1984), actor
 * Greg Bautzer (1911–1987), attorney
 * Lee Phillip Bell (1928–2020), television host, producer
 * William J. Bell (1927–2005), producer
 * Isabel Bigley (1926–2006), actress
 * Whit Bissell (1909–1996), actor
 * Hilary Blake (1950–2007), musician
 * Billy Bletcher (1894–1979), actor, voice artist
 * Robert Bloch (1917–1994), writer
 * Lloyd Bochner (1924–2005), actor
 * Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022), director and screenwriter
 * Benedict Bogeaus (1904–1968), producer
 * John Boles (1895–1969), actor
 * Dorris Bowdon (1914–2005), actress
 * Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), author; buried with his wife Marguerite McClure Bradbury
 * Fanny Brice (1891–1951), actress, comedian, singer (formerly buried in Home of Peace Cemetery)
 * William Brice (1921–2008), artist, son of Fanny Brice
 * Les Brown (1912–2001), musician
 * Vanessa Brown (1928–1999), actress
 * Clarence Bull (1896–1979), photographer
 * Anne Buydens (1919–2021), philanthropist, film producer, wife of Kirk Douglas

C

 * Sebastian Cabot (1918–1977), actor
 * Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), songwriter
 * Truman Capote (1924–1984), author
 * Edward Carrere (1906–1984), director
 * Harry Carey, Jr. (1921–2012), actor
 * Mary Carlisle (1914–2018), actress
 * John Cassavetes (1929–1989), actor, screenwriter, director, producer
 * Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), composer
 * James Coburn (1928–2002), actor
 * Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist, screenwriter, producer
 * Michel Colombier (1939–2004), musician, composer
 * Ray Conniff (1916–2002), musician
 * Richard Conte (1910–1975), actor
 * Tim Conway (1933–2019), actor, comedian
 * Lawrence Cook (1930–2003), actor
 * Ian Copeland (1949–2006), music promoter
 * Alexander Courage (1919–2008), composer
 * Bob Crane (1928–1978), actor
 * Norma Crane (1928–1973), actress

D

 * Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004), comedian, actor
 * Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), actor
 * Danny Dark (1938–2004), announcer
 * Steve Darrell (1904–1970), actor
 * Marvin Davis (1925–2004), oil tycoon, businessman
 * Jason Davis (1984–2020), actor
 * Richard Dawson (1932–2012), actor, television host
 * Don DeFore (1913–1993), actor
 * Laura Devon (1931–2007), actress
 * Philip Dorn (1901–1975), actor
 * Eric Douglas (1958–2004), actor
 * Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), actor
 * Dominique Dunne (1959–1982) murder victim, Poltergeist actress, daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, sister of actor-director Griffin Dunne
 * Ariel Durant (1898–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, wife of Will Durant
 * Will Durant (1885–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, husband of Ariel Durant

E

 * Nora Eddington (1924–2001), actress, 2nd wife of Errol Flynn, 3rd wife of Dick Haymes
 * Roger Edens (1905–1970), vocal arranger, songwriter, producer
 * Jack Elliott (1927–2001), songwriter
 * Geoff Emerick (1945–2018), sound engineer
 * Harry Essex (1910–1997), writer
 * Dennis Etchison (1943–2019), writer
 * Ray Evans (1915–2007), songwriter

F

 * Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor
 * Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), actress
 * Bert Fields (1929–2022), entertainment attorney, writer, musician
 * Freddie Fields (1923–2007), talent agent
 * Jay C. Flippen (1899–1971), actor
 * June Foray (1917–2017), voice actress
 * Michael Fox (1921–1996), actor
 * Coleman Francis (1919–1973), film director
 * Leslie Frankenheimer (1948–2013), set decorator
 * Stan Freberg (1926–2015), voice actor
 * Georgia Frontiere (1927–2008), football owner
 * Faiza Rauf (1923–1994), Egyptian princess

G

 * Eva Gabor (1919–1995), actress
 * June Gale (1911–1996), actress, wife of Oscar Levant
 * Michael V. Gazzo (1923–1995), actor
 * Christopher George (1931–1983), actor
 * Leonard Gershe (1922–2002), composer
 * Master Henry Gibson (1942–2002), musician
 * Gary Glasberg (1966-2016), writer and producer
 * Paul Gleason (1939–2006), character actor
 * Thomas Gomez (1905–1971), actor
 * Don Gordon (1926–2017), actor
 * Robert Gottschalk (1918–1982), camera technician, co-founder of Panavision
 * Walter Grauman (1922–2015), director
 * Howard Greer (1896–1974), costume and fashion designer
 * Jane Greer (1924–2001), actress
 * Merv Griffin (1925–2007), producer, television host, singer

H

 * Loretta King Hadler (1917–2007), actress
 * Hayedeh (1942–1990), Persian language pop and classic singer from Tehran, older sister of Mahasti
 * Carrie Hamilton (1963–2002), actress, singer, daughter of Carol Burnett
 * Armand Hammer (1898–1990), oil tycoon, art collector, former president of Occidental Petroleum
 * Bong Soo Han (1933–2007), martial artist
 * Jonathan Harris (1914–2002), actor
 * Harold Hecht (1907–1985), film producer
 * Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), Playboy magazine founder and publisher, businessman
 * Percy Helton (1894–1971), actor
 * Florence Henderson (1934–2016), actress, singer, television host
 * Francesca Hilton (1947–2015), actress, daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor
 * Connie Hines (1931–2009), actress
 * Jonathan Hole (1904–1998), actor, buried with his wife Betty Hanna, and son David Jon Hole
 * Ben Howard (1904–1970), aircraft designer, race pilot
 * James Wong Howe (1899–1976), cinematographer
 * Rosanna Huffman (1938–2016), actress
 * Mark R. Hughes (1956–2000), founder of Herbalife
 * Ronald Hughes (1935–1970), lawyer
 * Ross Hunter (1920–1996), producer, director, actor
 * Jim Hutton (1934–1979), actor

I

 * Steve Ihnat (1934–1972), actor
 * Franklin D. Israel(1945-1996), Architect; 1975 Rome Prize for architecture

J

 * Donald G. Jackson (1943–2003), filmmaker
 * Kevin Jarre (1954–2011), screenwriter
 * Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977), screenwriter, director
 * Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), actor
 * Brenda Joyce (1917–2009), actress

K

 * Phil Karlson (1908–1985), director
 * Louis Kaufman (1905–1994), violinist
 * Beatrice Kay (1907–1986), actress, singer
 * Nora Kaye (1920–1987), ballerina
 * Brian Keith (1921–1997), actor
 * Cecil Kellaway (1893–1973), actor
 * Nancy Kelly (1921–1995), actress
 * Stan Kenton (1911–1979), musician
 * Victor Kilian (1891–1979), actor, murdered
 * James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger (1895–1962), aviation executive
 * Louis King (1898–1962), director
 * Jack Klugman (1922–2012), actor, comedian, director, screenwriter
 * Don Knotts (1924–2006), actor, comedian
 * Miliza Korjus (1909–1980), opera singer
 * Phyllis Kennedy (1914–1998), actress

L

 * Perry Lafferty (1917–2005), director
 * Bill Lancaster (1947–1997), actor, screenwriter
 * Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), actor
 * Sidney Lanfield (1898–1972), director
 * Paul Laszlo (1900–1993), architect, furniture designer
 * Ed Lauter (1938–2013), actor
 * Marc Lawrence (1910–2005), actor
 * Irving Paul Lazar (1907–1993), agent
 * Joanna Lee (1931–2003), actress
 * Peggy Lee (1920–2002), singer, songwriter, actress
 * Ernest Lehman (1915–2005), screenwriter
 * Janet Leigh (1927–2004), actress
 * Jack Lemmon (1925–2001), actor
 * Queenie Leonard (1905–2002), actress
 * Murray Lertzman (1928-1984), attorney
 * Bruce Lester (1912–2008), actor
 * Oscar Levant (1906–1972), actor, pianist
 * Richard Levinson (1934–1987), writer
 * Harry Lewis (1920–2013), actor, restaurateur
 * Marilyn Lewis (1929–2017), fashion designer, producer
 * Alan W. Livingston (1917–2009), writer, producer
 * Jay Livingston (1915–2001), songwriter
 * Sondra Locke (1944–2018), actress
 * Louis Loeffler (1897–1972), editor
 * Robert Loggia (1930–2015), actor, director

M

 * Alexander Mackendrick (1912–1993), director
 * Mahasti (1946–2007), Persian language pop singer from Tehran, younger sister of Hayedeh
 * Karl Malden (1912–2009), actor
 * Janet Margolin (1943–1993), actress, married to Ted Wass
 * Dean Martin (1917–1995), actor, singer
 * Andrew Marton (1904–1992), actor
 * Samuel Marx (1902–1992), producer
 * Pamela Mason (1916–1996), actress, wife of James Mason and Roy Kellino
 * Portland Mason (1948–2004), actress, daughter of James Mason and Pamela Mason
 * Shirley Mason (1900–1979), actress
 * Osa Massen (1914–2006), actress
 * Edith Massey (1918–1984), actress
 * Carol Matthau (1925–2003), actress, wife of Walter Matthau and William Saroyan
 * Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor
 * Ruth McDevitt (1895–1976), actress
 * Rod McKuen (1933–2015), poet, composer
 * Peter McWilliams (1949–2000), author
 * Allan Melvin (1923–2008), actor, voice actor
 * Lewis Milestone (1895–1980), director
 * Marvin E. Miller (1913–1985), actor
 * Shirley Mitchell (1919–2013), actress, wife of Jay Livingston
 * Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), actress
 * Constance Moore (1920–2005), singer, actress
 * Dolores Moran (1924–1982), actress
 * Jeff Morris (1934–2004), actor
 * Lloyd Morrisett (1929–2023), psychologist, co-founder of Sesame Workshop, co-creator of Sesame Street

N

 * Nader Naderpour (1929–2000), Iranian poet
 * David Nelson (1936–2011), actor, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, older brother of Ricky Nelson
 * William Newell (1894–1967), actor
 * Lloyd Nolan (1902–1985), actor

O

 * Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), actor
 * Ryan O'Neal (1941–2023), actor
 * Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988), actress
 * Barbara Orbison (1950–2011), wife of Roy Orbison
 * Roy Orbison (1936–1988), singer; grave unmarked

P

 * Bettie Page (1923–2008), model
 * Dorothy Patrick (1921–1987), actress
 * Wolfgang Petersen (1941–2022), director
 * Frank Pierson (1925–2012), screenwriter, director
 * Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oil tycoon, philanthropist
 * Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976), cellist
 * Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1911–2012), chess player
 * James Prideaux (1927–2015), playwright

R

 * Ford Rainey (1908–2005), actor
 * Donna Reed (1921–1986), actress
 * Jimmie Reese (1901–1994), baseball player and coach
 * Renie Riano (1899–1971), actress
 * Buddy Rich (1917–1987), drummer, bandleader
 * Minnie Riperton (1947–1979), singer
 * Ben Roberts (1916–1984), screenwriter; co-creator of Charlie's Angels
 * Doris Roberts (1925–2016), actress, philanthropist, author
 * Wayne Rogers (1933–2015), actor
 * Hillevi Rombin (1933–1996), Miss Universe 1955
 * Ruth Rose (1896–1978), screenwriter
 * Herbert Ross (1927–2001), film director

S

 * Jay Sandrich (1932–2021), television director
 * Franklin Schaffner (1920–1989), film director
 * G. David Schine (1927–1996), film producer
 * Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893–1979), film director
 * George C. Scott (1927–1999), actor; grave unmarked
 * Vivienne Segal (1897–1992), singer, actress
 * Anne Seymour (1909–1988), actress
 * Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007), author
 * Dorothy Shay (1921–1978), actress, singer
 * Jeremy Silman (1954-2023), chess player
 * Sam Simon (1955–2015), writer, producer, director
 * Lu Ann Simms (1932–2003), singer
 * Sara Sothern (1895–1994), mother of Elizabeth Taylor
 * Robert Stack (1919–2003), actor
 * Sage Stallone (1976–2012), actor, son of Sylvester Stallone
 * Ray Stark (1915–2004), film producer
 * Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director
 * Donald E. Stewart (1930–1999), screenwriter
 * Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), actress, Playboy Playmate
 * Danny Sugerman (1954–2005), writer, rock band manager
 * Jennifer Syme (1972–2001), actress

T

 * Don Taylor (1920–1998), actor, director
 * Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968), art dealer, father of Elizabeth Taylor
 * Kent Taylor (1907–1987), actor
 * Irene Tedrow (1907–1995), actress
 * William C. Thomas (1903–1984), film producer
 * Marshall Thompson (1925–1992), actor
 * Dan Tobin (1910–1982), actor
 * Ernst Toch (1887–1964), composer
 * Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), author
 * Mel Tormé (1925–1999), singer, actor
 * Helen Traubel (1899–1972), opera soprano
 * Les Tremayne (1913–2003), actor
 * Michael Trikilis (1940-2019), TV/film producer
 * Frank Tuttle (1892–1963), screenwriter, producer

V

 * Sigrid Valdis (1935–2007), actress, widow of Bob Crane
 * Clyde Van Dusen (1886–1951), horse trainer, won 1929 Kentucky Derby
 * Romeo Vasquez (1939–2017), actor
 * John Vivyan (1915–1983), actor

W

 * June Walker (1900–1966), actress
 * Pat Walshe (1900–1991), actor
 * Larry Ward (1925–1985), actor, screenwriter
 * Harry Warren (1893–1981), songwriter
 * Joe Weider (1919–2013), bodybuilder
 * Winifred Westover (1899–1978), actress
 * Chrissie White (1895–1989), silent film actress
 * Michael White (1936–2016), producer
 * Sean Whitesell (1963–2015), actor
 * Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), singer
 * Herbert Wiere (1908–1999), performer
 * Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), actor
 * Billy Wilder (1906–2002), filmmaker
 * Carl Wilson (1946–1998), singer, member of The Beach Boys
 * Estelle Winwood (1883–1984), actress
 * Albert Wohlstetter (1913–1997), nuclear strategist
 * Roberta Wohlstetter (1912–2007), historian of military intelligence
 * Natalie Wood (1938–1981), actress

Y

 * Edward Yang (1947–2007), filmmaker

Z

 * Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), head of 20th Century Fox studios, father of Richard D. Zanuck
 * Virginia Zanuck (1908–1982), actress, wife of Darryl F. Zanuck, mother of Richard D. Zanuck
 * Frank Zappa (1940–1993), composer, musician, satirist, leader of The Mothers of Invention; grave unmarked
 * Gail Zappa (1945–2015), widow of Frank Zappa and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust; buried next to her husband Frank Zappa


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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, United States. It is the original and current flagship location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of six cemeteries and four additional mortuaries in Southern California.

History
Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Hubert Eaton and C.B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over its management in 1917. Although Eaton did not start Forest Lawn, he is credited as its "Founder" for his innovations of establishing the "memorial-park plan". He eliminated upright grave markers and brought in works by established artists. He was the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. He was a firm believer in a joyous life after death.

Convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards," he pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic Christian beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn as "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 stating Eaton's intentions are signed "The Builder." Frederick Llewellyn, Eaton's nephew, became CEO of Forest Lawn in 1966. In 1987, he was succeeded by his son, John Llewellyn, who died in April 2022.

Most of Forest Lawn's burial sections have evocative names, including Eventide, Babyland (for infants, shaped like a heart), Graceland, Inspiration Slope, Slumberland (for children and adolescents), Sweet Memories, Whispering Pines, Vesperland, Borderland (on the edge of the cemetery), and Dawn of Tomorrow.

Forest Lawn originally participated in racial segregation and "for decades refused entrance to blacks, Jews, and Chinese".

Forest Lawn Museum
The Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale opened in 1952 and is located next to the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection. It rotates art exhibitions twice yearly, and has hosted solo exhibitions for Henri Matisse, Winslow Homer, Ian Hornak, Francisco Goya, Rembrandt and Marc Davis. In 2021, it held an exhibition on Judson Studios, the oldest family-run stained glass studio in the United States, which produced numerous stained glass windows for Forest Lawn in the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection and the Great Mausoleum.

Forest Lawn Museum's art collection consists primarily of original bronze and marble sculptures by European and American artists. The permanent collection also includes stained glass that used to be part of William Randolph Hearst's collection. Forest Lawn purchased the stained glass works in 1954. The windows date from c. 1315 to 1575, and display impressive examples of French, German, and Austrian craftsmanship in Gothic and Renaissance styles.

Song of the Angels
One of the most famous objects in the Forest Lawn Museum's permanent collection is an oil painting titled Song of the Angels by French artist William Bouguereau (1825–1905), who painted the artwork in 1881. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, as well as in Rome, and was considered a leading French academic painter in the nineteenth century. Legend has it that Bouguereau searched for a model for the painting's figures and found them in his first wife, Nelly Monochablon, who posed for the angels, one by one, and at last, with a child in her arms. The painting shows a mother and child, calmly asleep in a pastoral setting, while a trio of angels hovers nearby. It highlights Bouguereau's ability to render realistic flesh tones and subtle gradations of white.

Song of the Angels was once a part of the Wanamaker Collection in Philadelphia. It was acquired by Forest Lawn Memorial Park in 1940 for a chapel in the Church of the Recessional. Originally, a stained-glass window was going to be the focal point of the chapel, but instead Forest Lawn decided to purchase the painting from Schnittjer's gallery. A large gothic-style liturgical frame was built for the painting by Forest Lawn craftsmen, and it is still presented in this wooden frame at the Forest Lawn Museum.

In 2005, the painting traveled to the Getty Center in Los Angeles for a cleaning with funding from the Conservation Partnership Program. Chief Paintings Conservator, Mark Leonard, worked on the painting for months to remove the old varnish and restore its original colors. Song of the Angels was exhibited at the Getty Center, alongside a preparatory oil sketch and a later, half-size replica from Bouguereau's own hand.

The Court of David
The Court of David at Forest Lawn-Glendale is located right before the Mystery of Life garden on Cathedral Drive and is centered around a seventeen-foot-tall replica statue of Michelangelo Buonarroti's David. The first Forest Lawn replica of David was installed at Forest Lawn on June 22, 1939. The statue was placed using a series of ropes and pulleys. The statue fell due to seismic activity in 1971. The head and right foot of the 1939 replica is on display at the Forest Lawn Museum. Later Forest Lawn copies fell in 1994 and 2020. A new bronze replica of David was installed at Forest Lawn-Glendale in 2021.

The architectural inspiration for the Court of David is the Piazzale Michelangelo, a square in Florence, Italy dedicated to Michelangelo. Like the Court of David, the Piazzale Michelangelo is an open-air space that features a bronze replica of David in the center.

The Court of Freedom
The Court of Freedom is 750 feet long and 300 feet wide. It is enclosed on three sides by high walls and is open to the side that parallels the drive. The central point of the court is the mosaic rendition of John Trumbull's Signing of the Declaration of Independence. The mosaic measures at twenty by thirty feet. It is three times the size of the original painting in the United States Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. The mosaic consists of 700,000 pieces of Venetian glass in more than 1,500 colors. It was made in Italy expressly for Forest Lawn. There are two fifty-foot white pylons on each end of the court.

The left pylon displays a replica of The Republic by Daniel Chester French. The original work was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. The Forest Lawn version is 18-feet-tall and is one of two later originals, the other having been Commissioned for the Siegel-Cooper Big Store in Manhattan's Ladies' Mile in 1896. The figure holds a globe surmounted by an American eagle and clasps the staff of liberty crowned with a laurel wreath of honor. The right pylon displays an original statue of George Washington by John Quincy Adams Ward. This statue had been commissioned by the U.S. Congress, but no appropriation was made to pay for it, so it was purchased by Forest Lawn.

Christus
Before the beginning of World War II in 1939, Forest Lawn commissioned a reproduction of Christus, an eleven-foot tall marble sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1884). The original stands in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first small reproduction was received in 1925 and a larger reproduction was completed in 1940 and unveiled in 1946. A second small yellow copy was received in 1947. The Court of The Christus is placed above a waterfall between the Garden of Remembrance and the Garden of Memory.

Great Mausoleum
The Great Mausoleum features eleven terraces and over 100 stained glass windows. The massive building, which contains the same amount of steel and concrete as a 70-story skyscraper, embodies an eclectic mix of architectural styles, and is the park's artistic centerpiece.

The mausoleum's original architect was T. Paterson Ross. Numerous other people worked on it, and the construction designs underwent several rounds of changes. Construction began in 1917, and it was officially inaugurated in 1920. Construction finished only in the 1970s.

The Memorial Terrace was added in the late 1920s, and the Memorial Court of Honor was inaugurated in 1931. The gallery's largest piece is the Last Supper stained glass window by Rosa Caselli-Moretti and her sister, Cecilia Caselli-Moretti. This monumental project took over six years to complete. It was created in the sisters' studio in Perugia, Italy, and shipped to Glendale, where it was formally dedicated on April 28, 1931.

Commissioned expressly for the Memorial Court of Honor are the replicas of the seven Michelangelo sculptures including the Pietà. The Memorial Court of Honor is the only place in the world where exceptional marble reproductions of all of Michelangelo's most renowned statues can be viewed in one location. One of the mausoleum's last building phases incorporated French Gothic architecture with lofty ceilings and large stained-glass windows, creating an ethereal and tranquil space.

Wee Kirk o' the Heather
Wee Kirk o' the Heather is the second church built at Forest Lawn. The inspiration for the church was based on the village church (kirk) at Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This village church was erected in 1310 and subsequently destroyed in 1805. Dumfriesshire is rich in historical tradition, and it is most known for being where Sir Walter Scott wrote some of his most famous works, and former home of the famed poet, Robert Burns. The love song "Annie Laurie" is perhaps Scotland's most popular love ballad. It immortalizes the ill-fated romance of a woman that lived near the original "wee kirk" in the Glencairn.

The song was written by William Douglas of Fingland, a soldier in the Royal Scots Army. Annie Laurie was born at Maxwelton House in 1682, the daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, a baronet. Traditionally, it is believed that Annie's aristocratic family would not consent to her marrying an older soldier of an opposing clan. This evocative ballad is portrayed in eight beautiful stained glass windows along the south side of the Wee Kirk at Forest Lawn. Artifacts related to Annie including communion coins, will, and portrait are all housed in the historical room at the Wee Kirk. The Wee Kirk church was dedicated on October 6, 1929. Over five thousand people attended the ceremony, and Frank McWilliams, Scottish tenor, sang "Annie Laurie."

In the forecourt of the Wee Kirk is a "Wishing Chair." Built in 1931, of stones from the original kirk at Glencairn, Scotland, legend has it that lovers who sit and speak the words inscribed on the chair will be forever blessed.

Little Church of the Flowers
The Little Church of the Flowers was the first church to be built at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The architect was T. Patterson Ross. Ross's inspiration was an English village church at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, where the poet Thomas Gray had written "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," a famous English poem. Ross wanted to recreate the 600-plus-year-old parish church at Forest Lawn. He began his commission in 1917.

The conservatories adjacent to the pews, filled with flowers, was added later on in the construction. The dedication ceremony took place on Mother's Day, May 12, 1918. At the end of the nave is a Tree of Life Window. The design of the window was created by a long-forgotten monk in an English Abbey. It was then translated into a stained glass medium.

Church of the Recessional
The Church of the Recessional was the third church built at Forest Lawn. The architectural inspiration was the Church of St. Margaret in Rottingdean, Sussex, England, an Anglo-Saxon-styled stone and stained glass edifice dating from 1100 A.D. that is still standing. The dedication ceremony took place on November 30, 1941. Within the chancel are three stained glass windows depicting scenes of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.

The stained glass windows were produced by Charles J. Connick. Along both sides of the chancel arch, the pulpit and the baptismal font of St. Margaret's have been faithfully reproduced. Over the arch are the words of Apostle Paul, "Now abideth faith, hope, and love, these three; and the greatest of these is love." Along the south side of the church are stained glass windows that depict the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount.

In the forecourt of the church stands the romantic Ring of Aldyth, to which an Old Saxon legend attaches a prophecy of happiness and devotion for a couple who clasp their right hands through the ring and repeat together the inscribed vows: "Thy hand in mine, this ring doth bind, my heart to thine."

Hall of Crucifixion–Resurrection
Built with the intention to house the enormous painting by Jan Styka, The Crucifixion; the design for the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection was inspired by the cathedral in Orvieto, Italy. The architectural style of the hall is Gothic. Covering the painting are a pair of gigantic curtains that weigh 3,500 pounds, measure four hundred forty feet long by fifty feet high, and are carried on a custom-built set of tracks.

The hall was completed in three years, and the dedication ceremony took place on Good Friday, March 23, 1951. It even was the subject of an in-depth article in the March 23, 1955, issue of Southwest Builder & Contractor Magazine, which characterized the hall as:

"The new structure is not a church or chapel, and will not be used for funeral or wedding ceremonies. It is purely an auditorium for the reverential viewing of Styka's masterpiece....In order that the true perspective of the entire length of the picture may be had by persons sitting on the one thousand seats on the auditorium floor, the wall upon which the painting has been mounted is slightly curved concave to the audience." The painting has been shown daily in an audio-visual presentation since the dedication ceremonies.

The painting has an elaborate and interesting history. The Crucifixion  was brought by the artist, Jan Styka, to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. When the fair ended, he was unable to pay the export duty and was forced to return to Poland without it. Styka, whose self-portrait is seen in the painting as the figure of Saul (Paul), died in 1925 without ever seeing his painting again. The  Crucifixion was wrapped around a telephone pole and stored in several warehouses over the years until it was rediscovered at the Chicago Civic Opera company in 1943. Forest Lawn purchased the painting after World War II  for the express purpose of displaying it to the public.

Critical commentary
The most notable critical work about Forest Lawn is The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, an English writer. Waugh was given a tour of Forest Lawn, which is when he was inspired with the idea for the book. A 1948 New York Times review wrote that it is "satire at its most ferocious...a macabre frolic filled with... ingenious devices."

The singer Tom Paxton wrote and recorded a satirical song, "Forest Lawn", which featured on his 1970 album Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra Records).

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California. It is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

History
The first Forest Lawn, in Glendale, was founded in 1906 by businessmen who, 6 years later, hired Dr. Hubert Eaton, a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He believed that most cemeteries were "unsightly stone yards", and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs and be "as different, as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is to darkness, as eternal life is unlike death." He stated "I shall try to build at Forest Lawn a great park, devoid of misshapen monuments and other customary signs of Earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, singing birds, beautiful statuary, cheerful flowers, noble memorial architecture with interiors full of light and color, and redolent of the world's best history and romances."

Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills is the second oldest of the Forest Lawn cemetery properties.

By 1946, Forest Lawn at Glendale had bought some 490 acre of land which had been known as the Lasky Ranch, the Providencia Ranch, which had a house and outbuildings, including stables and corrals, and part of the Hudkins Ranch, also known as the Old Lasky Ranch. The Lasky Ranch had been used as a film location since the early 1910s, and films made there included All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and several of Charlie Chaplin's early comedies, including Sunnyside (1919). The 1000 acre Old Lasky Ranch had also been used for filming many movies, and Warner Brothers had leased it in 1929. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) had been largely filmed on the Providencia Ranch.

In 1950, after a four-year permit process, Hubert Eaton began construction of a new cemetery on his land at Hollywood Hills. A curving and irregular road, laid out by 1951 among the rolling green hills, gave a rural effect in the heart of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The first buildings, a mortuary, an office, a garage, and a maintenance warehouse, were also built in 1951, and the new cemetery was opened for burials on March 4, 1952.

Part of a mausoleum called the Court of Remembrance was constructed in 1957.

Features
Portions of the cemetery include:

Court of Liberty

 * The Court of Liberty features statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the Birth of Liberty mosaic. At 162 ft long and 28 ft high, Birth of Liberty is the largest historical mosaic in the United States. It is composed of ten million pieces of Venetian glass and depicts twenty-five scenes from early America, from 1619 to 1787.
 * The Old North Church, a precise replica of Boston's historic church, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride". The historical rooms have documents and mementos of the colonial period.
 * The Hall of Liberty American History Museum has a copy of the Liberty Bell and other exhibits. The museum has a 1,200-seat auditorium.
 * Monument to Washington, a marble and bronze tribute to America's first president, created by sculptor Thomas Ball. Four of Washington's generals are honored in the memorial.

Lincoln Terrace

 * The Lincoln Terrace features a 16 ft bronze statue of the Abraham Lincoln, 16th president, by Augustus St. Gaudens. It is also flanked by a panoramic mosaic depicting key scenes from Lincoln's life.

Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage
The Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage had indigenous/non-Christian sculptures by Meliton Salas Rodriguez, of Guadalajara, Mexico. Salas used hand tools to first quarry, then work, the native Mexican stone into precisely scaled, detailed replicas of artwork and artifacts that are representative of the Aztec, Huastec, Maya, Mixtec, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Totonac, and Zapotec civilizations that preceded both Spanish colonialism and modern Mexican culture. The Plaza stood in contrast to the Christian and patriotic American themes which were originally reflective of the culture at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills and other Forest Lawn Memorial Parks since their inception by Christian American businessman Hubert L. Eaton. A smooth Olmecan head, an intricate Aztec sun calendar and a sinuous Teotihuacan bas relief were some of the sculptural features of the plaza that were set off by crushed stone walkways and complemented by groupings of Mesoamerican plants.

The entire display, however, has been removed and placed in storage.

Notable interments
Many prominent people, especially from the entertainment industry, are interred there.