Holy Cross Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue,
Culver City, California,
USA. A
Roman Catholic cemetery, amongst others, it contains the graves of some of Hollywood's biggest names including:
- Roscoe Arbuckle, the Keystone Kops
- Mary Astor, actress
- Ray Bolger, actor, The Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Charles Boyer, actor
- John Candy, comedic actor
- MacDonald Carey, actor
- Jackie Coogan, actor
- Bing Crosby, singer/actor
- Bobby Day, early Rock and Roll singer, sang Rockin' Robin
- Jimmy Durante, entertainer
- Vince Edwards, actor - Ben Casey
- Mary Frann, actress, Newhart
- Joe Flynn, actor
- John Ford, motion picture director
- Jack Haley, actor, The Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Henry Hathaway, (Marquis Henri Leonard de Fiennes), film Producer and Director
- Rita Hayworth, actress
- Spike Jones, band leader, musicial satirist
- Mario Lanza, opera tenor
- Bela Lugosi, actor - Count Dracula
- Fred MacMurray, actor My Three Sons
- Audrey Meadows, actress
- Pat O'Brien, actor
- Louella Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist
- ZaSu Pitts, actress
- Rosalind Russell, actress
- Mack Sennett, legendary director of silent movie comedies, including stars such as Charlie Chaplin
- Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by members of the Charles Manson cult
- Lawrence Welk, band leader
- Loretta Young, actress
Most of celebrities are interred in the section known as "The Grotto" in the southwest part of the cemetery; turn left and follow the leftmost road after entering the main gate.
See also: List of famous cemeteries