Famous People in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale / Red Skelton, Gutzon Borglum & More

foreign [Music] [Music] of History Hunters I'm here at the great Mausoleum I'm going to try to enter it and try to photograph some Graves of some famous people who are very here we're at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale California one of the grapes that I want to fight is that of goodsonborg who was the sculpture of Mount Rushmore he's actually buried in here under this giant stained glass of The Last Supper see if I don't get kicked out Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale has been called the Disneyland of the dead because of the resting places of Hollywood entertainers if that's the case then the great Mausoleum is a massive castle with its 11 Terraces and over 100 stained glass windows the building is Grant and Architectural design and houses the remains of such Hollywood luminaries as Jane Harlow Clark Gable and wife Carol Lombard Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor but it's also an art gallery with its marble replicas of the seven Michelangelo sculptures including the pieta the building contains the same amount of Steel and concrete as a seven-story skyscraper and embodies an Eclectic mix of architectural Styles the great Mausoleum was built in phases the original structure was constructed between 1917 and 1920. the memorial Terrace was added in the late 1920s and the memorial court of honor was inaugurated in 1931. construction ended in the 1970s what are the boss of Liam's last building phases Incorporated French Gothic architecture with lofty sailings and large stained glass windows creating an ethereal and tranquil space once inside the massive public corror we came to a large white angel standing guard over the tomb of actress Elizabeth Taylor who passed away in 2011. Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1932 in London England she became a popular teen star after pairing a National Velvet in 1944. instead of losing lunch feeling all right isn't he beautiful he knew I've never seen him before and of course she became a legendary Hollywood figure I remembered the time that she and husband Larry fortinsky had visited the same Modesto Hospital Cancer Ward where a great uncle of mine was ailing at the same time as Taylor's mother-in-law to find the grave of the legendary gutsenborglum I had to find the massive stained glass window at the Last Supper of Jesus done by Two Sisters in Italy which took six years to complete and was shipped to Glendale where it was dedicated in 1931. beneath the glass window were the crypts of eight dignitaries one of which is Borglum this area is called the memorial court of honor each Crypt is faced with an upright plaque which gives the impression that the bodies were buried upright but the verbiage on the tablet indicates they are all buried in Crips beneath the marble floor in many cases with a spouse Borglum is in tuned here with wife Mary who died in 1955. Goodson Berglund of course is responsible for South Dakota's biggest tourist draw that of Mount Rushmore the sculptor who was born in Idaho in 1867 began working on the Black Hills carving in 1927 and died in 1941 the same year that the project was finished by son Lincoln Borglum Carrie Jacob's bond is also buried here she was one of the most successful women composers of her day by some reports earning more than one million dollars in royalties from her music before the end of 1910. her best known song was probably I love you truly which was sung by Ward Bond and Frank Phelan in the movie It's a Wonderful Life [Music] also buried here is physicist Robert a Milliken who was honored with a Nobel Prize for physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect another who is buried here is Glenn dumke who was a historian educator and author I'll let you read his inscription also buried here is Rudolph frimel a czech-born composer of operettas musicals songs and piano pieces as well as a Pianist Jan steika was a Polish painter who created the massive painting of the crucifixion that hangs in at other Cemetery building the painting is mind-boggling in size and was seen by audiences in the 1904 St Louis exposition Hubert Eaton the man responsible for Forest Lawn Memorial Park itself is also entombed here he envisioned Forest lot as a place for the living having sweeping Lawns and Noble architecture stained glass and a place that uplifted the community rather than being a place of Sorrow lastly in the court of honor is Educator Rufus Von Kleinschmidt the fifth President of the University of Southern California the college removed his name from a building in 2020 when he was targeted by the castle culture due to his support of eugenics believing that people with defects had no ethical right to Parenthood and should be sterilized thank you knowing that security cameras were keeping an eye on the most guarded areas moved around to see if I could spy Heather Graves of the famous that led me to the sanctuary of Vespers with the name of Mary Bolin grabbed my attention the actress who lived from 1882 to 1965 is mostly forgotten today but in the 1930s was a popular character actress always playing Major roles in her films and often starring notably in a series of comedies opposite Charles brugles Shirley won't you join me in some champagne act so desolate sitting there all by yourself but I have I'm kind of love of course I've seen your pictures in the paper and I've seen yours too I'm Mrs Stephen Haynes oh yes yes of course oh my idea those crummy newspaper pictures didn't do you half Justice let's all have a little party yeah oh are you you too Danny no don't sit in that corner entombed a few spaces over from her body as the body of Baritone singer and actor Russ Columbo who met an untimely and tragic death in an accidental shooting it happened on September 2nd 1934 when Columbus was visiting a friend and photographer Lansing Brown in his house on Lillian way Brown decided to show off his collection of firearms and picked up an antique dueling pistol the gun fired sending a ball into Colombo's head he died six hours later in a hospital a promising career and a full life was preempted by the accident when he was just 26. Colombo was mostly a recording artist with prisoner of love being his most notable song he also appeared in several films including the Texan with Gary Cooper foreign [Music] and in the sanctuary benediction I spied this skeleton family crypt buried in the Alcove is comedic actor Red Skelton best known for his National radio and TV shows from 1937 to 1971. the skeleton made his film debut in 1938 alongside Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr and having wonderful time and would appear in numerous Musical and comedy films throughout the 1940s and 1950s with starring roles in 19 films move over now that will be 20 demerits from Bad stable manners now sit down because he portrayed a clown began painting clowns and made millions and once wrote to him for a sketch and he sent me this colored pen drawing of a clown which he also signed also buried in the family vault as his son Richard who died at the age of 10 from leukemia after his son's diagnosis Skelton took his family on an extended trip so that Richard could see as much of the world as possible newsreels reported on the Family's return to the United States comedian Red Skelton and family in New York from Europe the trip was to let nine-year-old Richard A leukemia victim see places he's read about it's pretty spectacular hat Richard can you tell us something about all the things [Music] Richard Skelton Jr died on May 10 1958 just a week before his 10th birthday his funeral service was attended by hundreds of mourners mostly in the entertainment World also in Tomb tierra's red skelton's second wife Georgia Davis skelden even though the couple divorced in 71 she was reportedly despondent and on May 10 1976 the 18th anniversary of the death of their son she killed herself at her home in Rancho Mirage California Georgia was just 54 years old in a 1973 San Francisco ceremony red married for the third and last time to Lothian tooland who was 24 years his Junior she is still living at the age of 84 Red Skelton died on September 17 1997. at his home in Palm Springs he was entombed here with his son and his ex-wife next to the Skelton Iowa Cove is the final resting place a theater Mogul Sid groman who has a very interesting pass young Sid accompanied his father to the Klondike River Region of the claudike Canada in 1898 in search of gold once there the teenager began to make quick money by entertaining miners for pieces of gold at that point he was bitten by the entertainment bug a next stage profitable boxing matches Grumman left the Yukon in 1900 to join his family in California while in San Francisco sits all moving playing at the cinemagraph theater sit soon realized how profitable the movie business had become and tried his own luck with it with his dad as a partner he began buying up theaters of which two were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake said moved out of Los Angeles to nearby Hollywood his next theater was the Egyptian located on the Hollywood Boulevard which opened in 1922 with the premiere of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks next he built the most lavish motion picture Palace with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and Howard shank because of his Chinese statuary the theater became known as The Landmark Grandma's Chinese Theater as final touches were being placed on the theater so it accidentally stepped into wet concrete during a visit to the construction site that misstep gave him the idea to collect Footprints of the famous stars like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe Sid groman died in 1950. so I wish I could get into this building right behind me that's that Tower right there that's where Michael Jackson is buried and he's completely off limits I mean if I could get in there I would love to show it to you but it's not going to happen foreign now a lot of my viewers know that I've been here to Forest Lawn Memorial Park here in Glendale but I've never stopped to show you this church right here it's the church where Ronald Reagan Mary J Wyman in back in 1940 is we Kirk of the Heather church and uh there's a little place over here that him and Jane posed for their wedding picture beautiful Church and it's been a number of a number of funerals here famous funerals here it is actually raining today let's see what this says we Kirk of the Heather Forest Lawn Memorial Park reconstruction of Annie Laurie's church and Glencairn Scotland erected in 1310 and was destroyed in 1805. except the Lord build the house they labor in vain who built it imagine Ronald Reagan being married right here in this church and right over here they've had this set up for some kind of service or something but uh here's the wishing chair there's a famous picture of the actor and his wife sitting right here in these chairs right here it's a wishing chair Forest Lawn has built this Annie Laurie wishing chair of stone which once composed a part of the old wheat Kirk at Glencairn where Annie Laurie worshiped and Glenn Karen they say the fairies have blessed these Stones tradition tells us that good fortune will forever smile upon the bride and bridegroom who sit in this chair on their wedding day and hand in hand recite together the verse of the tablet in front of the wishing chair I don't have to tell you though that Ronald and uh Jane divorced so I don't know how good of a luck that was between 1929 and 1930 Frederick a Hansen created of the week Kirk of the Heather Chapel for Forest Lawn by copying the 17th Century Village Chapel at glencairns Scotland where Annie Laurie worshiped the weaker of the Heather church was a site of the 1937 funeral of 26 year old Gene Harlow where Nelson Eddie and Jeanette McDonald did their best to get through a song it was said that McDonald collapsed on the arms of Eddie and could get through Harlow's favorite song which was Indian love call it's really wet and rainy today it feels kind of like it would in over in England dripping on me I'm getting wet pretty cool grounds here May the peace and happiness of him who loves you with a love that path all understanding enter your soul in this holy place and remain with you always the Builder there's Jesus over there so this is where Jane Wyman would have got dressed I guess in this door and walked into the church this way another celebrity funeral held here was that of Douglas Fairbanks senior the swashbuckling actor who played Robin Hood Don Juan and Zorro in silent films he died on December 12 1939 of a heart attack if I'm not mistaken Rex Bell's funeral was here as well and uh Clara Beau his wife grieving clarabo is here but can you imagine the history of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman coming out those doors getting pelted by rice and walking down these steps to create our Hollywood dream of a couple I love so I want to thank you for joining us on this very brief visit to Forest Lawn Memorial Park here in Glendale where you got to see that church back there and also the final resting place I've got some boring ones well thank you so much 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Channel: History Hunters

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Keywords: Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Famous graves, History Hunters, Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore, Michael Jackson, Red Skelton, Ronald Reagan

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023