Search: hollywood forever
Why: We might go to another premiere of Insidious there tonight. (We went to one last night, and the film was awesome. Totes the scariest thing I've ever seen. I could not get out of my house fast enough this morning.) I have only been one time - to Día de los Muertos - and I didn't recognize a single name there. But I did do this:
(It was unseasonably warm.)
Answer: There are a few! These are on the official Interactive Site Map (and some have cenotaphs but aren't really buried there):
- Mel Blanc (1908–1989)
- Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925–1968) - son of Charlie
- Hannah Chaplin (1865–1928) - mother of Charlie
- Lana Clarkson (1962–2003) - murdered by Phil Spector
- Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959)
- William C. DeMille (1878–1955) - Cecil's brother
- Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939) - There is a building on my street named after him.
- Estelle Getty (1923–2008)
- Griffith J. Griffith (1850–1919) - as in Griffith Park
- John Huston (1906–1987)
- Don LaFontaine (1940–2008) - the "in a world" movie trailer guy :(
- Peter Lorre (1904–1964)
- Hattie McDaniel (1895–1952) - Mammy in Gone with the Wind
- Darren McGavin (1922–2006) - the dad in Billy Madison
- Dee Dee Ramone (1952–2002)
- Johnny Ramone (1948–2004)
- Bugsy Siegel (1906–1947)
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (1927–1959)
- Norma Talmadge (1893–1957) and her sisters Natalie and Constance - I have only heard of these people because I used to live on Talmadge Street in Los Feliz
- Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926)
- Fay Wray (1907–2004)
- Gidget Gein (1969-2008) - one of the guys from Marilyn Manson
- Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway (1895–1951) - wife of Ernest
Source: HollywoodForever.com, Wikipedia
The More You Know: Incidentally, I once made a spreadsheet about Hattie McDaniel and her family (her brother and sister were both actors) because I couldn't believe the number of times they were each credited as Mammy, Porter, or Maid. Rude! Read about her cenotaph and the horrible reason it exists here.
