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Holy Cross Cemetery

Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue, Culver City, California, USA. A Roman Catholic cemetery, amongst others, it contains the graves of some of Hollywood's biggest names including:

Roscoe Arbuckle, the Keystone Kops
Mary Astor[?], actress
Ray Bolger, actor, The Scarecrow in the "The Wizard of Oz"
Charles Boyer, actor
John Candy, comedic actor
MacDonald Carey[?], actor
Jackie Coogan, actor
Bing Crosby, singer/actor
Bobby Day[?], early Rock and Roll singer, sang Rockin' Robin
Jimmy Durante, entertainer
Vince Edwards[?], actor - Ben Casey
Mary Frann[?], actress, Newhart
Joe Flynn[?], actor
John Ford, motion picture director
Jack Haley[?], actor, The Tin Man in the "The Wizard of Oz"
Henry Hathaway[?], (Marquis Henri Leonard de Fiennes), film Producer and Director
Rita Hayworth[?], actress
Spike Jones, band leader, musicial satirist
Mario Lanza[?], opera tenor
Bela Lugosi, actor - Count Dracula
Fred MacMurray, actor My Three Sons
Audrey Meadows[?], actress
Pat O'Brien[?], actor
Louella Parsons[?], Hollywood gossip columnist
ZaSu Pitts, actress
Rosalind Russell, actress
Mack Sennett, legendary director of silent movie comedies, including stars such as Charlie Chaplin
Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by members of the Charles Manson cult
Lawrence Welk, band leader
Loretta Young, actress

Most of celebrities are interred in the section known as "The Grotto" in the southwest part of the cemetery; turn left and follow the leftmost road after entering the main gate.