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They do all need a head stone. I am so glad Florence LaBadie finally has one. What's funny is how the studios helped them at one time and then Fantastic post, Jessica! When you go grave hunting, I take it you do the research before you go, right duh, Anne? How in the world do you find them when they're in an unmarked grave? Does someone at the cemetery tell you where they are?
Anne in Colorado. Saturday, October 17, Unmarked. Page Peters. Page Peters was a handsome leading man whose stardom was at it's peak starting in and continuing until his death in He is virtually unknown today I didn't even hear about him until a few months ago most likely due to his untimely death. The story goes that Page and some friends drove to Hermosa Beach for a party at a friend's house.
The next morning, he and a couple others decided to go swimming in the ocean. Page and a female friend, known only as 'Miss Graves,' swam further out than the rest of their party and it was while out in the deep that he was stricken with a cramp.
Miss Graves tried to grab a hold of Page and swim with him to shore, but was finding it difficult and began calling out for help. Apparently, she gave up on her efforts to save him and only managed to get herself to shore. His body was found by rescuers, who pulled him ashore and tried to revive him for a good two hours before they gave up hope on trying to save him. The medical examiner later concluded that Page had died from heart failure and not from drowning, which was interesting considering he was 27 years old and in pretty good shape.
Page's funeral was held at what is now Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His pallbearers were a group of his industry friends, including director Al Christie. Apparently the funeral was filmed at the request of his parents, which I would love to see that if it still exists! What gives Page a little more distinction is that he is rumored to be the first actor to be buried at Hollywood Forever.
Considering the fact that he was a pretty popular actor during the time and the fact that even his funeral was filmed, I find it odd that he was buried in an unmarked grave near the Cathedral Mausoleum. Unfortunately, I can't find much information on his early life other than his birth date in and that he was possibly born in Kentucky.
Virginia Pearson. I covered Virginia a few years ago read the entry here so I'll just put a little refresher here.
Virginia was one of the main vamps of the silent screen although to me she still looks too sweet. She passed away in at age 72 from uremic poisoning at the Motion Picture Country Home. While the two were legally divorced, they remained as close as ever and Virginia actually died only a month and one day after Lewis. The couple had to declare bankruptcy in , and this could very well be the reason why the Motion Picture Country Home paid for their burial plots. Sad that they couldn't throw in a small headstone too.
There is a persistent myth that Lugosi spoke very little English by the time he shot Dracula , and learned his lines phonetically. This has been debunked by Lugosi historians and is simply not true. The payment went to that studio, not to Manners, who was paid only his usual weekly rate from First National. He later recounted in stories on film sets about his experiences, which included acting as a hangman. He also said that at one point he hid in a mass grave of corpses to escape death.
After being wounded three times, he was discharged while apparently feigning concussion-caused insanity. According to biographer Robert Cremer, Lugosi was not only the finest party host among Hungarian members of the Hollywood community but also an inveterate practical joker. When other expatriates such as Joe Pasternak, Ilona Massey, Michael Curtiz and Willy Pogany were guests, he would hire comic actor Vince Barnett to play the role of a clumsy waiter spilling drinks and dropping plates of hors d'oeuvres, resulting in near misses for the guests to Lugosi's delight.
His ex-wife Lilian and son had him buried in one of his many capes, but not the one from his role as the title character of Dracula It is a myth that he was buried in the original Dracula cape. He did not wear fangs when playing the title character in Dracula The same was true of Frank Langella in Dracula He has two roles in common with Lon Chaney Jr. Appeared with Lon Chaney Jr. Is referenced in The Kinks song "Celluloid Heroes", with the lines "Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi, because he's liable to turn and bite.
He played vampires in many other films, but none of them--besides the aforementioned two--were Count Dracula. This cane is considered one of the only remaining props from the film. Privately, he struggled with his dependency upon morphine, a drug he was given to deal with leg pain from his war injuries.
However, tabloid reports erroneously presented him as a "drug addict"; there is a significant difference between being physically and clinically dependent upon a drug and being "addicted" to it. The latter denotes the presence of a morbid mental want that is absent in a medical dependency, which is a physiological need. Because of his political activities his remaining in Hungary became problematic, so he left. He went via Vienna to Berlin, where he continued his film career.
Before his success in Tod Browning, he had already portrayed "Dracula" on Broadway, starting in Lon Chaney was originally chosen for the title role, but with his unexpected death, the search for a new Dracula started. Lugosi campaigned hard for the part, and thus won the role that made him a silver-screen horror legend. Because his parents were against his plans to become an actor, he left his family at the age of After working in a mine, he would later join the theater, where he gained his first experience as an actor.
Thus classically trained, he subsequently joined the film business, in , and, early on, used the pseudonym Arisztid Olt. At the end of the Sledge Hammer! Blasko", Lugosi's birth name. Although he expressed interest in playing a romantic lead as he had in Hungary, he rarely got to share a kiss with a female co-star, during his entire Hollywood career.
It isn't until The Return of Chandu that he shares a split-second peck in a romantic scene with the princess character at the end of the serial. Became a US citizen in , the same year he starred in Dracula , whereas fellow horror actor, Boris Karloff lived in the US for 45 years yet never sought American citizenship. Long before Dracula , shots of his hypnotic eyes in extreme close-up were often used in his films, including Hypnose , The Silent Command and, later, more famously in White Zombie Wore a tuxedo in nearly every film he ever made, except for the ones where he played beasts or monsters, such as Island of Lost Souls , Son of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Was a philatelist stamp collector.
As such, he would have been thrilled to know that he himself ended up gracing two US stamps. He deserves a grander monument. He died of a heart attack in Lagunitas, California in His ashes were scattered over the ocean. He was buried on his estate near St. Albans in England. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
He died at age 85 in and was buried in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. From Dracula to Saruman, Christopher Lee was a towering figure in horror films. He died of heart failure in June at the age of Findagrave reports that his ashes were scattered over the Surrey Hills in Englang.
Cast as the psychopathic child murderer in M by Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre started on a career of playing villains and outcasts. He died in from a stroke. His ashes were interred in the Cathedral Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever. Vincent Price read his eulogy. Photo by Loren Rhoads. Lugosi was buried in one of his black opera capes.
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