"The Seven Little Foys" Choreographer Nick Castle 1968 Holy Cross Cemetery

Nick Castle (March 21, 1910 - August 16, 1968) was an actor, songwriter, dancer and choreographer on feature films and television.

Nick Castle began his career as a dance director in vaudeville. When he moved to Hollywood, he worked at several studios as the dance director or choreographer on such famous movies as

LITTLE MISS BROADWAY (1938), 

BUCK PRIVATES (1941), 

HELLZAPOPPIN' (1941), 

THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS (1955),

and STATE FAIR (1962).

In his later career, Castle worked on television shows including "The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953-1955), "The Bob Hope Show" (1961), "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1956-1963), 

"The Judy Garland Show" (1963), 

"The Andy Williams Show" (1965-1966), and "The Jerry Lewis Show" (1967-1968).

Nick Castle's son, Nick Castle Jr., is an actor ("Michael Meyers" in HALLOWEEN), a screenwriter (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK), and film director (TAP).

Nick Castle died of a sudden heart attack. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

"The Andy Williams Show" Nick Castle and the Nick Castle Dancers

"Sinners in Paradise" Actress Marion Martin 1985 Holy Cross Cemetery

Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985) was an American movie and stage actress.

Biography

Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline.

She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (1938). 

Marion played "Lola Snow" in Invitation to Happiness (1939).

Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday (1940). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boom Town (1940) in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. 

She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo.

She played a ghost in Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. 

Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street with Lucille Ball, in the western The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in 1944.

By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor. Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. She played "Belle Farnol" in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "Pardon for Curley." Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her.

Personal

She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. She died in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Partial filmography

His Girl Friday (1940) as Evangeline 
Boom Town (1940) as Whitey 
The Great Awakening (1941) 
The Big Store (1941) 
They Got Me Covered (1943) 
The Merry Monahans (1944) 
Gangs of the Waterfront (1945) 
Girls of the Big House (1945) 
That Brennan Girl (1946) 
Black Angel (1946) as Millie 
Deadline for Murder (1946) 
Key to the City (1950) as Emmy

"The Facts of Life" Actress Charlotte Rae 1926-2018 Memorial Video

Charlotte Rae (April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018) was an American character actress, comedienne, singer and dancer whose career spanned six decades.

Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979–1986). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy in 1982. She also appeared in two Facts of Life television movies: The Facts of Life Goes to Paris in 1982 and The Facts of Life Reunion in 2001. She voiced the character of "Nanny" in 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Aunt Pristine Figg in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. She also appeared as Gammy Hart in Girl Meets World.

In 2015, she returned to film in the feature film Ricki and the Flash, with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Rick Springfield. In November 2015, Rae released her autobiography, The Facts of My Life, which was co-written with her son, Larry Strauss.

Rae married composer John Strauss on November 4, 1951. In the mid 1970s, he came out as bisexual, and the couple divorced in 1976. Strauss died in 2011 at age 90 following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. The couple had two sons, Larry and Andrew.

In 1982, Rae had a pacemaker implanted in her chest. In 2009, due to the frequency of pancreatic cancer in her own family, Rae was screened, diagnosed early, and became cancer-free after six months of chemotherapy. Her mother, an uncle, and her elder sister Beverly all reportedly died from pancreatic cancer. However, in 2017, aged 91, Rae was diagnosed with bone cancer.

Rae died at her home in Los Angeles on August 5, 2018. She was 92.

"Transylvania Twist" Character Actor Art Hern 1997 Westwood Village Cemetery

Art Hern (February 14, 1907 - August 4, 1997) was born in West Virginia, USA as Arthur L. Hern. He was a character actor who began as a Chicago radio actor in the 1930s and 1940s. He played Captain Midnight's mechanic sidekick, Ichabod Mudd. Art Hern also portrayed NATCO the Clown on the TV kids show Adventure Time. 

Art Hern appeared in IN HIS STEPS (1964), 

AIRPORT (1970), 

HOLLYWOOD MAN (1976), THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978), 

UNDER THE RAINBOW (1981), THE LOST EMPIRE (1985), 

BIG BAD MAMA II (1987), 

and TRANSYLVANIA TWIST (1989).

Art Hern died on August 4, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA. His ashes have been scattered in the Rose Garden at Westwood Village Memorial Park.

"WAMPAS" Actress Mary Carlisle 1914-2018 Memorial Video

Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter; February 3, 1914 – August 1, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer.

She starred in several Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of 15 girls selected as WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1932. Her first major role was in the 1933 film College Humor with Bing Crosby. The two went on to perform together in two additional films, Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938). Carlisle retired from her acting career shortly after her marriage in 1942, with Dead Men Walk (1943) being her final film credit.