Famous Buried in Holy Cross Cemetery of Culver City

death waits for nobody and that's certainly true of hollywood celebrities who populate the holy cross catholic cemetery in culver city california sarah and i were in the area on a quiet wednesday morning with limited times so we decided to drop by to search for the famous people buried on the sprawling 200 acres of rolling hills the grounds are beautiful filled with trees and sculptures and a grotto with a koi pond however security guards with nothing better to do parked near us and kept their eye on us spying like we were some kind of vlogger criminals once they left we were free to search for all the celebrity graves that we could find within the hour so hi welcome to this episode of history hunters we are surreptitiously recording in holy cross cemetery in culture city because we have security all around us and we understand that you get kicked out if you bring out cameras so we're just going to try to find some celebrity graves that we think are in this area and uh hope to find as many as we can before we get kicked out of here right right so right here next to this line of boulders is the grave of jimmy durante and his wife margaret he was a singer dancer comedian and actor best known for his very large nose his first wife jean had died in 1943 and then he remarried in 1960 to margaret and he was 67 and she was 41. for years he would sign off on his radio and tv programs saying good night mrs calabash wherever you are but he never divulged who she was some speculated it was his dead wife at christmas time you'll hear him on the radio singing frosty the snowman after some searching i found the grave of harry lewis bing crosby beloved by all 1904 to 1977. somebody has remembered him with a golf ball of course he was an avid golfer in fact he died on a golf course in spain he was a huge star a prolific singer and he starred in the holiday classic film white christmas one of my favorites right next to bing is his first wife walnut otherwise known as dixie crosby who was also a singer and appeared in movies they married in 1930 but the marriage was less than perfect she struggled with alcoholism and the marriage nearly collapsed a number of times she bore him four sons unfortunately she got cancer and died at the age of 42. [Music] wishing that you were mine indeed i do you got me dreaming things scheming things hoping that they come true you got me doing things saying things dreaming and praying things [Music] and here is bing crosby's father harry lowcrosby who was a bookkeeper up in washington state and here's ving's mother catherine harrigan crosby who died in 1964. she was probably very proud of her son so bing crosby is here and if you come down this row six graves you'll find the grave of bella lugosi where somebody has remembered him with a red rose he lived from 1882 to 1956 and was best known for playing dracula in the 1931 film by the same title he was born in hungary which is now romania and came to the united states in 1919. some may be creeped out by the fact that he was buried in that coffin with one of his dracula capes there's a punk rock band by the name of the cramps that signed the recording contract here over his grave in 1989. jack haley the tin man wizard of oz 1898-1979 and curiously wife florence is ridden upon his marker but not her birth year or death year which was 1902 to 1996 next to jack is his mother ellen f haley 1868 to 1953. his son jack haley jr is buried here as well he was a movie producer director and writer in fact he was married to liza minnelli the daughter of judy garland so you might say that the son of the tin man married the daughter of dorothy from wizard of oz [Music] oh houston we had a problem with this grave yeah this grave looks like it collapsed i had to wait a while for a watchful security guy to leave so i could record this grave of john leslie coogan better known as jackie coogan humanitarian patriot entertainer he was a charming little child actor who performed with charlie chaplin jackie was probably better known though as uncle fester on the adams family tv show in the 1960s he also had a part in an elvis presley movie girl happy in 1965. i also remember that he appeared in episodes of two of my favorite childhood shows the brady bunch and the partridge family somebody has left a rose here and next to him is a marker with tractor tire marks on it looks like there might be some tire tractor marks on his marker as well [Music] after searching for like 15 minutes i found the grave of anne miller 1923-2004 famous actress and singer and dancer she was very much a part of the hollywood canteen scene during world war ii her marker mentions her baby daughter mary milner who lived for one day she lost that baby when her husband at the time rhys milner pushed her down the staircase not only resulting in the death of the baby but hurting anne's back significantly that marriage didn't last no surprise and they divorced in 1948 [Music] tonight i'd like to cool with my baby tonight and pitch the woo with my baby tonight but sister you fight my baby tonight cause it's too darn hot the last grave that we have time to find is that of loretta young and her mom lattice belsner loretta started out her film career young by world war ii was a glamorous hollywood star she starred with clark gable and call up the wild in 1935 apparently there was something wild going on with clark gable because he got her pregnant and what was probably classified as a date rape but being a devout catholic loretta refused to abort the child and secretly gave birth to a baby girl named judith young she looked very much like clark gable loretta also starred in her own tv show from 1953 to 1961. we left the cemetery astonished to learn that we were just within feet of sharon taste final resting place she was the beautiful actress killed by the manson family something bizarre happened at her gravesite in august 1977. roman polanski who used to be her husband had just pled guilty to sex with a minor and before he could flee the country came to tate's gravesite suspecting that polanski would show up to the grave a photographer had to hit out and waited for him to arrive and stepped out into the open and took a series of photographs polanski was enraged and chased the photographer through the cemetery shouting obscenities and then snatched the camera to remove the film the d.a refused to press charges against polanski and the camera was returned to the photographer minus the film a number of graves here were filled by stars who met untimely deaths actress and model gia scala died of a drug overdose in 1972 at the age of 38. famous comedic actor john candy died of a heart attack at age 43 while filming a movie in mexico in 1994 and is in the mausoleum curiously his body is two levels directly above fred mcmurray star of movies and the my three sons tv show also with fred is his actress wife june haver fred died in 1991 and june survived him by 14 years operatic tenor and actor mario lanza who played the immortal enrico caruso in the great caruso died at age 38 in 1959 graves we couldn't get to included audrey meadows who starred in the honeymooners with jackie gleason she died in 1996 at the age of the legendary hollywood actress and dancer rita hayworth who appeared in 61 films over 37 year period died 1987 in new york and is buried here allison hayes who played in several b movies including the lead role in attack of the 50-foot woman in 1958 is also buried here she died in 1977. gene lockhart who played the judge in the christmas classic film miracle on 34th street died in 1957 and is also buried here max senate known as the king of comedy and the one who created the keystone cops died in 1960 and rests here as well nanette february who had a very successful career in hollywood despite a hearing impairment died in 2018 and is buried here ricardo matabon star of fantasy island on tv and a number of movies has been another famous resident of this park since 2009 hidden roark the recognizable colonel bellows on i dream of jeannie tv show died in 1987 as barry here frank alverson best known as sam wainwright in the movie it's a wonderful life has been here since 1964. he was only 55 when he passed away rosalind russell who lived from 1907 to 1976 was nominated for the academy award for best actress four times during her career zazu pitts an actress who made the jump from silent films to talkies to radio shows died in 1963. dying the same year was bryant washburn who appeared in 375 films between 1911 and 1947. french american actor charles boye appeared in a number of romantic dramas and the mystery thriller gaslight in 1944 he died of an intentional overdose two days after his wife died of cancer in 1978. ray bulger best known as the dancing scarecrow and the wizard of oz was buried here in 1987. legendary race car driver barney oldfield made his last lap in 1918 but lived until 1946 and you guessed it he's buried here as well also at rest at holy cross cemetery is ella logan the scottish american actress and singer who appeared in a number of broadway productions she died at age 59. gene peters who lived from 1926 to 2000 was a 20th century fox star who was once married to howard hughes despite her glamour and beauty she resisted being turned into a sex symbol and preferred to play unglamorous common female roles and rutherford who played in gone with the wind died in 2012 and reportedly her remains are here joan leslie who appeared in such films as high sierra sergeant york and yankee doodle dandy died in 2015 at the age of 90. john ford the one who directed most of john wayne's western movies is buried here he died in 1973. ray teal who played sheriff coffee on bonanza was laid to rest here in 1976. prolific character actor john dussette appeared in more than 280 movie and tv shows between 1941 and 1987 he passed away in 1994. scott brady starred western films and a number of tv shows was laid to rest here in 1985. hollywood heavy jack larue who played thugs and gangsters died in 1984 and was interred here among the catholic burials bonita granville known for her dramatic roles in playing nancy drew in the 1930s film series made it to age 65 when she died in 1988 born of irish descent pat o'brien is best known for his roles in new rockne all-american angels with dirty faces and some like it hot in 1959 he died in 1983 and made his way here and who could forget sunday afternoon tv with musician lawrence welk as a young man i was made to suffer through his program listening to him playing the accordion and watching all the cheesy dancing the show ran on tv from 1951 to 1982. walt died in santa monica in 1992 and is buried here in this cemetery thank you for exploring the holy cross cemetery with us we hope that you enjoyed revisiting some of the celebrities of our past we would love to have you subscribe to our channel historyhunters give us a comment as well as a thumbs up thank you so much you

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Keywords: Celebrity graves, Famous people, Culver City, History Hunters, Bing Crosby, Sharon Tate, Rita Hayworth

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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021