FLORIST, FILMMAKER MCELDOWNEY AT 97.Byline: Daily News GLENDALE - A memorial service is scheduled Saturday for J. Kenneth McEldowney, a Hollywood florist who produced a classic film on a dare by his wife. McEldowney died Jan. 5 at St. Joseph Medical Center St. Joseph Medical Center may refer to: In the United States:
During the 1920s and '30s, he owned four flower shops in the Hollywood- Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. area, including the first drive-through florist, at the intersection of Pico Boulevard Pico Boulevard is a major Los Angeles street that runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica to Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. and Beverly Drive Beverly Drive is a northwest/southwest major street in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. The southern end of Beverly Drive is at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Harlow Avenue, a small street south of National Blvd. and north of the Santa Monica Freeway. . He did funeral arrangements for actress Jean Harlow, producer Irving Thalberg and singer Al Jolson, and provided floral arrangements for the first Academy Awards ceremonies, held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. On a dare by his wife, Melvina Pumphrey, a publicist at MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. , he produced a movie of his own, ``The River,'' in 1951. It was directed by Jean Renoir, son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and photographed by Claude Renoir, Jean Renoir's nephew. The award-winning film was based on a novel by Rumer Godden about colonial India. ``He was the sort of individual who would never give up on anything at all,'' said his friend, motion picture distributor Kit Parker. ``He would persevere with anything he took on, including the making of his movie.'' McEldowney is survived by a son, J.K. McEldowney Jr. The memorial service is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn Glendale. |
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