NOT FORGOTTEN; FINAL RESTING PLACES OF THE STARS.Byline: Steve Carney Daily News Staff Writer So powerful is the allure of Hollywood that even after celebrities die, their loyal fans find them. Using the Internet, books and underground maps, groupies and the curious alike track down the likes of Humphrey Bogart, W.C. Fields and Jean Harlow at the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale. And they can find Lucille Ball, Liberace, Bette Davis, Stan Laurel Noun 1. Stan Laurel - United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965) Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel, Laurel and George Raft, among others, at Forest Lawn's Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to location. ``Forest Lawn Forest Lawn is the name of a number of different places:
Elsewhere, the 100-year-old Hollywood Forever cemetery Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. It is adjacent to the north wall, or back, of Paramount Studios, who, with RKO Studios, bought 40 acres by 1920. in Hollywood owes some of its own resurrection from bankruptcy to the enduring popularity of its residents. The former Hollywood Memorial Park was neglected and overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. until last year, when Tyler Cassity paid $375,000 to take over the 620-acre park on Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Boulevard that backs up to Paramount Studios. The son of a St. Louis funeral director, Cassity once swore he'd never go into the family business. Then he came to Hollywood and found a new undertaking, so to speak. ``I love movies and I love drama, and this place was just full of drama,'' said Cassity, 28. Several years ago, the Hollywood Cemetery
``It kind of piqued my curiosity. I came out and thought it was just an incredible place,'' he said. ``When I walk around, all these people's stories start playing in my head.'' Cassity welcomes tourists, among them Valentino fans on the anniversary of his death. Approximately 5,000 tourists come to the cemetery every year and pay $2 for a map of the stars' eternal homes. New at the cemetery are video and digital services for families, including a viewing room with videotaped goodbyes and biographical epitaphs of the dead, including the stars. To swoon for Silent screen legend Rodolfo Guglielmi Valentino lies in a modest burial crypt in the cemetery's Cathedral Mausoleum mausoleum (môsəlē`əm), a sepulchral structure or tomb, especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor, erected (c.352 B.C. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cassity, it's only a loaner - his neighbor in the next crypt, screenwriter Jane Mathis Balboni, who helped discover him, offered it after his death until his fan club could build a massive memorial it had planned. Broken-hearted, she died the following year. And the fan club never did pony up the money for that monument. For years, a mysterious ``lady in black'' left flowers on the anniversary of his death. That woman's daughter eventually assumed the job, Cassity said, and other Valentino fans have joined in. ``It changes every year. This year there were three or four ladies in black,'' he said. ``One had an incredibly large Adam's apple Adam's apple: see larynx. and a bit of a shadow.'' But how can a screen star dead 73 years still inspire someone to leave fresh roses at his crypt? ``If people leave enough of themselves through technology, people can get to know them,'' Cassity said. ``They're so beautiful and glamorous. They're still living on the screen,'' he said. And for their fans, visiting their graves ``is the closest they can get to the stars.'' ``During the summer, we get a lot of tourists from all over,'' said Judy Dooley, who runs the cemetery's flower shop, which also sells photos and postcards of the matinee idols. Famous on their own Hollywood Forever is the final location for legendary director Cecil B. DeMille Noun 1. Cecil B. DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille , who directed ``The Ten Commandments'' and ``Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. ,'' among others films. His movie ``The Squaw Man'' was filmed in Chatsworth in 1911, the first major motion picture made in the United States. Yet most of the 80,000 people interred at Hollywood Forever are not that famous. That doesn't mean they're ordinary. ``Beloved father'' David Solomon Eisenberg died June 30, 1948, at age 107. William J. Hilburn, 1842-1927, served in Company K of the 7th Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War. Walter Miller Clark has a marker in his family's tomb. Born 1894, he was lost at sea in 1912 - on the Titanic. But most come to the cemetery, with the Hollywood sign shining in the hills behind, to look for Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and hundreds of other cartoon characters. His epitaph epitaph, strictly, an inscription on a tomb; by extension, a statement, usually in verse, commemorating the dead. The earliest such inscriptions are those found on Egyptian sarcophagi. : ``That's All Folks.'' They want Carl ``Alfalfa'' Switzer, Peter Lorre, John Huston, Nelson Riddle, Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Peter Finch and Bugsy Siegel. They seek Douglas Fairbanks, whose massive-columned, white marble tomb sits on the banks of a long reflecting pool. Or Tyrone Power, whose monument doubles as a bench on which to view the ducks and lily pads in a nearby pond. Both include an epitaph by Shakespeare from ``Hamlet'': ``Good night sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.'' Daily News Staff Writer Jesse Hiestand contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, map PHOTO (1) Rudolph Valentino starred in ``Son of the Sheik'' in 1926 before his untimely death at age 31 that same year. He lies in a modest burial crypt at Hollywood Forever cemetery, and fans still flock to the site every year on the anniversary of his death. (2 -- color) no caption (Burial crypt of Rudolph Valentino) (3 -- color) The Hollywood sign is visible from the heart of the 100-year-old Hollywood Forever cemetery. David Sprague/Daily News Map: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Forest Lawn Cemetery There are numerous cemeteries named Forest Lawn:
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