Holy Cross Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue, Culver City, California. A Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, it contains – among others – the graves of some of Hollywood's biggest names. Those interred or entombed here include:
- Roscoe Arbuckle, the Keystone Kops
- Richard Arlen, actor
- Mary Astor, actress
- Sam Barry, Hall of Fame basketball coach
- Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1916-1982), department store heir
- Joseph Bodner, painter
- Ray Bolger, actor, The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
- Charles Boyer, actor
- Pat Paterson-Boyer, actress
- John Candy, comedic actor
- MacDonald Carey, actor
- Jackie Coogan, actor
- Bing Crosby, singer/actor
- Bobby Day, early Rock and Roll singer, sang Rockin' Robin
- Dennis Day, singer
- Ralph DePalma, race car driver
- Jimmy Durante, entertainer
- Vince Edwards, actor - Ben Casey
- Queen Nazli Fouad of Egypt
- Joe Flynn, actor
- John Ford, motion picture director
- Mary Frann, actress, Newhart
- Jack Haley, actor, The Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Henry Hathaway (Marquis Henri Leonard de Fiennes), film Producer and Director
- Rita Hayworth, actress
- Chick Hearn, sports broadcaster
- Nicky Hilton, heir of Hilton Hotel chain, company executive and TWA director
- Spike Jones, band leader, musicial satirist
- Mario Lanza, opera tenor
- Frank Lovejoy, actor
- Bela Lugosi, actor - Count Dracula
- Fred MacMurray, actor My Three Sons
- Leo McCarey, film director
- Fibber McGee, radio star
- Molly McGee, radio star
- Audrey Meadows, actress
- Ann Miller, actress/dancer
- Thelma Morgan, socialite & Viscountess Furness
- Jim Murray, sportswriter
- Edmond O'Brien, actor
- Pat O'Brien, actor
- Helen O'Connell, singer
- Barney Oldfield, race car driver
- Walter O'Malley, baseball execurive, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers
- 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
- Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, socialite
- Lawrence Welk, band leader
- Loretta Young, actress
Many of the celebrities are interred in the section known as "The Grotto" in the southwest part of the cemetery; turn left and follow the leftmost road up the hill after entering the main gate.
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