Recent Visit to Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer's Grave - Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, I spent the afternoon searching for some obscure graves at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. But Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer's grave is not one of them. His grave is easy to find. It's near the curb in the Garden of Memory (formerly Section 6), grave 6, lot 26.

I was pleasantly surprised to see holiday flowers on the graves of him and his family, so I decided to take some new photos. I wonder who left the flowers? Could it be one of the other L.A. Gravers who frequent the cemetery? Does he have any living relatives or friends? How very nice!

Paula Uruburu "American Eve" Author Interviewed

Paula Uruburu "American Eve" Author Interviewed

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) Full Movie

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

The Girl in the Velvet Swing (1955) is a film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland and Farley Granger. The film was released by Twentieth Century-Fox, which had originally planned to put Marilyn Monroe in the title role, and then suspended her when she refused to do the film.

It is the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit, a model and actress, and the widely publicized scandal surrounding the murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her current husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film.

Cast

Ray Milland as Stanford White


Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw


Farley Granger as Harry Kendall Thaw


Luther Adler as Delphin Delmas


Cornelia Otis Skinner as Mrs. Thaw


Glenda Farrell as Mrs. Nesbit


Frances Fuller as Mrs. Elizabeth White


Phillip Reed as Robert Collier


Gale Robbins as Gwen Arden


James Lorimer as McCaleb


John Hoyt as William Travers Jerome


Robert F. Simon as Stage Manager


Harvey Stephens as Dr. Hollingshead


Emile Meyer as Hunchbacher

Samson De Brier Talks About Meeting Evelyn Nesbit

Legendary Hollywood gadabout, Samson De Brier interviewed by "American Eve" author Paula Uruburu in his Hollywood home in 1995. He remembers Evelyn Nesbit and other celebrity notables.

Evelyn Nesbit, the American Eve

Evelyn Nesbit, the American Eve

Evelyn Nesbit's Estate Jewelry

Evelyn Nesbit's Estate Jewelry

RAGTIME (1981) trailer

RAGTIME (1981) trailer