"Gidget" Actress Sandra Dee 2005 Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery

Sandra Dee (April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular. By the late 1960s her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce.

She rarely acted after this time, and her final years were marred by illness; she died as a result of renal failure. Dee's adult years were marked by ill health. She admitted that for most of her life she battled anorexia nervosa, depression and alcoholism. In 2000, it was reported that she had been diagnosed with several ailments, including throat cancer and kidney disease. Complications from kidney disease led to her death on February 20, 2005, at the Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California.

Sandra Dee is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, not far from her mother, Mary C. Douvan, who died on December 27, 1987. She is survived by her son, her daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.

Artist Wallace Berman Killed by Drunk Driver in Topanga Canyon 1976

Wallace Berman (February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976) was an American visual/assemblage artist.

Wallace Berman was born in Staten Island, New York and moved with his family to Los Angeles, California in 1930. He was expelled from high school for gambling, and became involved in the world of jazz. He enrolled in and attended the Jepson Art School and Chouinard but did not complete studies there. Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he worked in a factory finishing antique furniture. This work gave him the opportunity to salvage reject materials and scraps which he used to make sculptures. He began a mail art publication called SEMINA The format was a letterpress text printed on an assemblage of colored paper, photos, and essentially found material. Contributors included John Altoon, Antonin Artaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, and John Weiners.

He exhibited pieces in the Ferus Gallery in 1957, became part of the beat communities in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, and started the Semina Art Gallery in Larkspur, CA in 1960. He made his first and only film, Aleph, from 1956-1966. Berman did not give the film a title, referring to it just as 'my film' or 'my movie' and never showed it to large audiences, preferring to screen it on his studio wall on a one-to-one basis. The title Aleph was given to the work by Berman's son, Tosh, after the artist's death.

He used verifax collages in his work, allowing for creation of serial and multiple images. From artist Ed Ruscha: "There were a lot of artists then that were doing serial imagery in that way, including Llyn Foulkes and Andy Warhol himself, of course, who really popularized it. I had done some things like that. It came about at a time where it had completely reached its time. It was inevitable, It's like a genealogy. I think it was about Wally- and even Andy of course, who came out of the commercial world - seeing not paintings in museums but more popular imagery." This development in the art world seems directly related to the growth of mass production, consumption, and mass disposal that the US embraced in the 1950s.

His likeness was included in the second row of the Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.

He was killed after being struck by a drunk driver on the eve of his fiftieth birthday in Topanga Canyon in February 18, 1976.

After his death, Berman became the subject of myriad books and exhibitions exploring his work and Semina Culture. In 2008, he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition All is Personal: The Art of Wallace Bermanat the Camden Art Center in London. In 2009, there was a solo exhibition of his work at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York.

Selected bibliography

Verifax Collages Monographic catalogue French/English Text by Sophie Dannenmüller (Published by frank elbaz gallery, FRANCE ©2009)

Photographs by Wallace Berman Text by Kristine McKenna (Published by Rose Gallery, USA ©2007)

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle by Kristine McKenna (Author), Michael Duncan (Author) (Published by Distributed Art Publishers, USA)

Different Drummers: Wallace Berman, Clyde Connell, Bruce Conner by Frank Gettings (Published for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by the Smithsonian Institution Press, USA ©1988)

She: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince by Kristine McKenna (Editor), Wallace Berman (Illustrator), Richard Prince (Illustrator), Bruce Conner (Photographer)

Greystone "Doheny" Mansion MURDER-SUICIDE 1929

Greystone Mansion, also known as the Doheny Mansion, is a Tudor-style mansion on a landscaped estate with distinctive formal English gardens, located in Beverly Hills, California, United States. The architect Gordon Kaufmann designed the residence and ancillary structures, with construction completed in 1928. The estate was a gift from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny to his son, Edward "Ned" Doheny, Jr., and his family.

Description

The 55-room, Tudor-style former residence, 46,000 sq ft (4,300 m2), sits on 16 acres (65,000 m2) of land. At the time it was built, it cost over $3 million and was the most expensive home built in California up to that point.

History

On February 16, 1929, four months after Ned Doheny, his wife Lucy and their five children moved into Greystone, Ned died in his bedroom in a murder-suicide with his secretary, Hugh Plunket. The official story indicated Plunket murdered Ned either because of a "nervous disorder" or inflamed with anger over not receiving a raise. Others point out that Ned's gun was the murder weapon and that Ned was not buried in a Catholic cemetery with the rest of his family, indicating that he had committed suicide. Both men were involved in the trial of Ned's father in the Teapot Dome scandal.

Ned’s widow Lucy remarried and lived in the house until 1955, at which time she sold the mansion and its grounds to Chicago industrialist Henry Crown, who rented the estate to movie studios. In 1963, Crown planned to subdivide the property and demolish the mansion. Beverly Hills stopped the demolition by purchasing the mansion in 1965. The estate became a city park on September 16, 1971, and on April 23, 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The city leased the mansion to the American Film Institute, from 1965 to 1982, for $1 per year, hoping to get repair and upkeep work from the institute.

The house and grounds are often used in film and television. The house's descending staircase is one of the most famous sets in Hollywood.

Since 2002 The City of Beverly Hills has maintained a Web page for the Greystone Mansion park.

Besides the city's restoration efforts itself, many local volunteers have been contributing to the fund raising and restoration to the park, most notably the friends of Greystone that organize various showcase and garden events yearly.

Both Upton Sinclair's book OIL (1927) and the recent film THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) are loosely based on Edward L. Doheny. The final sequence in the film was filmed at Greystone Mansion aka the Doheny Mansion.

"MASH" Actor McLean Stevenson 1996 Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery

Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. (November 14, 1927 – February 15, 1996), better known as McLean Stevenson, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H. He was also recognized for his role as Michael Nicholson on The Doris Day Show.

Death

Stevenson was recovering from bladder cancer surgery in a Los Angeles hospital on February 15, 1996, when he went into cardiac arrest and died. M*A*S*H writer Larry Gelbart later said that Stevenson had left too soon twice in one lifetime. Roger Bowen, who had played Henry Blake in the film version of MASH, also died of cardiac arrest the day after Stevenson’s death.

Stevenson is interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife Ginny, daughter Lindsey and son Jeff MacGregor (from a previous marriage).

Musician Nat King Cole 1965 Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. He was one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death.

Cole was a heavy smoker of Kool menthol cigarettes, believing that smoking up to three packs a day gave his voice the rich sound it had (Cole would smoke several cigarettes in rapid succession before a recording for this very purpose). The many years of smoking caught up with him, resulting in his death from lung cancer on February 15, 1965, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Cole was 45.

Cole's funeral was held at St. James Episcopal Church on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. His remains were interred inside Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. His last album, L-O-V-E, was recorded in early December 1964—just a few days before he entered the hospital for cancer treatment—and was released just prior to his death. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Albums chart in the spring of 1965. A "Best Of" album went gold in 1968. His 1957 recording of "When I Fall In Love" reached #4 in the UK charts in 1987.

"Boner" Stabone Actor & Activist Andrew Koenig 2010 Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Joshua Andrew Koenig ( August 17, 1968 – approx. February 14, 2010)[1] also known as Josh Andrew Koenig or Andrew Koenig, was an American character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist. He was the son of actor Walter Koenig and actress Judy Koenig (née Levitt).[2]

Career

From 1985 to 1989, Koenig played a recurring role as Richard "Boner" Stabone, best friend to Kirk Cameron's character Mike Seaver in the first four seasons of the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.[3] During the same period, he guest starred on episodes of the sitcoms My Sister Sam and My Two Dads as well as the drama 21 Jump Street. In the early 1990s he provided a voice for the animated series G.I. Joe as Ambush and Night Creeper Leader,[4] and had a minor role as Tumak in the 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sanctuary".[5]

Koenig played the role of The Joker in the critically successful 2003 fan film Batman: Dead End.[6] Directed by commercial director Sandy Collora, the short received its first screening at the San Diego Comic-Con International.[7][8] Director Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made".[9]

Onstage, he starred as the M.C. in the 2007 interactive theater play The Boomerang Kid[10] and performed with the improv group Charles Whitman Reilly and Friends.

Though he continued his performing career in the 2006 independent film The Theory of Everything (2006), Koenig worked increasingly behind the scenes. He wrote, produced and/or directed the shorts Good Boy (2003) and Woman in a Green Dress and Instinct vs. Reason (2004). Most recently he was working as an editor on a number of films and had been a video producer for the podcast Never Not Funny (2006–2010). His final role was in the film DaZe: Vol. Too – NonSeNse, in post-production at the time of his death, with Koenig portraying the role of Vice Chancellor.[6]

Venice Apartment

(Photographer Unknown)

Personal life

Andrew Koenig was the son of actor Walter Koenig and Judy Levitt.[11] Andrew's sister Danielle Koenig is a stand-up comedian and writes for the program The Fashion Police. She is also married to a stand-up comedian, Jimmy Pardo.

Andrew Koenig's Parents

Writer Harlan Ellison spoke of the young Andrew – by his given first name of Josh – as being the inspiration for his story Jeffty Is Five.

“...I had been awed and delighted by Josh Koenig, and I instantly thought of just such a child who was arrested in time at the age of five. Jeffty, in no small measure, is Josh: the sweetness of Josh, the intelligence of Josh, the questioning nature of Josh.[12]”

The story went on to win the 1977 Nebula Award and the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

He was a vegan.[13]

Human rights activism

Koenig traveled to Burma in July 2007 and visited Burmese refugee camps in Thailand with his father as part of the U.S. Campaign for Burma. The following January, he protested the Communist Party of China's political and financial support of the military dictatorship in Burma during the 119th Tournament of Roses Parade, entering the parade and standing in front of a Chinese float promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a pre-parade human rights march agreed to by parade officials was allegedly stifled by them. Koenig, who carried a sign reading "China: Free Burma" in both English and Chinese, was arrested and briefly held for his act of civil disobedience. Koenig's defense attorney was Bill Paparian, a fellow protester and former mayor of Pasadena, California, where the parade is held.[14]

"China sits on the UN Security Council and they have refused to condemn Burma. China purchases gas from Burma and sells them weapons that the military uses on the Burmese people. So they are really quite complicit, and that was the whole point of protesting the China float," Koenig explained.[14] Koenig also noted the Chinese government's implicit support of genocidal forces in Sudan, sweatshops and tainted export products, saying of the float, "China is putting on a good face because of the Olympics, but [it’s time to] send a message to the Chinese government that they have to not just change their face, but change the way they do things.”[15] The Pasadena Weekly quoted Koenig as stating, "Their free speech rights have been totally censored. As a country with a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, we need to continue to support and enforce ours, and [use it to] recognize the rights of human beings all over the world."[14]

Death

In February 2010, Koenig was reported missing by friends and family.[16] He was last seen near a bakery in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 14, and missed a scheduled flight back to the US on February 16.[17] According to his parents, Koenig left evidence that he was depressed prior to his disappearance.[18] On February 25, 2010, CNN reported that his body was found by friends searching for him in Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver.[19] Police later confirmed Koenig's body was found earlier in the day, and Koenig's father told reporters at an evening press conference that his son "took his own life".[20] The 41-year-old was found hanging from a tree of a "densely wooded area...unseen from the path" of Vancouver's Stanley Park, on February 25, 2010.

Andrew Koenig is inurned at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.



References

1.^ Fleeman, Mike (February 26, 2010). "Confirmed: Andrew Koenig's Body Found". People. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
2.^ Lindell, Rebecca. "Body of missing actor Andrew Koenig found in Vancouver's Stanley Park". The Vancouver Sun.
3.^ "TV Ratings and 1980's". ClassicTVHits.com.
4.^ "Andrew Koenig’s Body Found in Stanley Park". Daily Contributor.
5.^ Tumak in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at the Internet Movie Database
6.^ "'Growing Pains' Actor Andrew Koenig Found Dead". Fox News. February 25, 2010.
7.^ "Batman vs Alien vs Predator?". JoBlo.com. January 2, 2004.
8.^ "Collora Studios". Collora Studios.
9.^ "Batman: Dead End". JoBlo.com. January 2, 2004.
10.^ Hanselman, Scott. "The Boomerang Kid – You'll Keep Coming Back". Lasplash.com.
11.^ "Andrew Koenig – Missing. You Can Help!". Dreadcentral.com. February 22, 2010.
12.^ Ellison, Harlan (1980). Shatterday. Houghton Mifflin. p. 10. ISBN 9780395285879.
13.^ "Andrew Koenig's brother-in-law cancels Chicago comedy shows". Chicago Tribune. February 26, 2010.
14.^ "Ready for a fight". Pasadena Weekly.
15.^ "Cops pop 'Boner'". Pasadena Weekly.
16.^ "Andrew Koening missing". Walterkoenigsite.com.
17.^ Phipps, Keith (February 21, 2010). "Actor Andrew Koenig missing in Vancouver". The A.V. Club.
18.^ "Andrew Koenig found". February 26, 2010.
19.^ "Missing actor's body found in Vancouver park, source says". Turner Broadcasting System. February 25, 2010.
20.^ "Andrew Koenig's Body Found In Vancouver Park; Father Says Actor Committed Suicide". Fox40.com. 2010.

Actress Mae Marsh 1968 Pacfic Crest Cemetery

 Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh, November 9, 1894 – February 13, 1968) was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years. 

She married Sam Goldwyn's publicity agent Louis Lee Arms, in 1918 and bore three children with him. They were married until her death, in 1968. Her sister Marguerite Marsh died in 1925 at the age of 37. Her only brother Oliver Marsh, a renowned cinematographer, died in 1941. Husband Louis Arms died in June 1989, at age 101. They are buried together in Section 5, at Pacific Crest Cemetery, in Redondo Beach, California.