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Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Memorial Park cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California, USA. Amongst others, a number of the great stars from the early days of the mortion picture industry in Hollywood are interred in this cemetery. Some of them are:

Mel Blanc, film voice of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck
Al Christie, director, producer, screenwriter
Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner
Joe Dassin, American born, French pop singer
Cecil B. DeMille, director, producer
Nelson Eddy[?], singer, actor
Douglas Fairbanks, actor
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.[?], actor, highly decorated military hero of WW II
Peter Finch, actor in film "Network" who said: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"
Victor Fleming, film director, "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind"
Janet Gaynor, actress, in the same year, she was nominated three times for an Academy Award for best actress[?] for her roles in three separate motion pictures.
Maury Gertsman[?], cinematographer
John Huston, director
Jesse Lasky[?], pioneer, made the first motion picture in Hollywood
Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first movie star
Peter Lorre, actor
Hattie McDaniel, actress, first African-American to win an Academy Award (monument; she is buried in Rosedale Cemetery)
Tyrone Power, actor
Virginia Rappe[?], actress, her murder became Hollywood's biggest scandal
Marie Rappold[?], opera singer
Nelson Riddle[?], musician, composer, band leader
Theodore Roberts[?], actor
Bugsy Siegel, gangster, built first gambling casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
Carl Switzer[?], child actor, Alfalfa in "Our Gang"
Constance Talmadge[?], actress
Natalie Talmadge[?], actress
Norma Talmadge[?], actress
Rudoph Valentino[?], actor
Clifton Webb, actor