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• Factor, Alan Jay   b. December 25, 1925  d. April 4, 1982
  Television Producer and Director. Born in Chicago, he launched his career as an actor on Broadway under the name Alan Frost. He moved into TV in 1964 as a director for the first season of "Bewitched". Factor subsequently became a production executive at Screen Gems and 20th Century-Fox, and produced the telefilms "Something Evil" (1972), "Terror on the Beach" (1973), "A Sensitive, Passionate Man" (1977), "Overboard" (1978), "The Suicide's Wife" (1979), "Angel City" (1980), and "The Five...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor S, Crypt 209
   
• Frank, Anne [cenotaph] [memorial]    b. June 12, 1929  d. March 12, 1945
  Holocaust Diarist. Anne Frank loved American movies and dreamed of becoming a star. This bronze tablet reproduces Frank's best-known portrait and the caption she wrote for it in her diary: "This is a photo as I wish I still was. If so, I would still have a chance to come to Hollywood". Fittingly, it is near the front entrance of Hollywood's Beth Olam Cemetery, just a few yards from Paramount Studios. The memorial was dedicated in time for what would have been Anne Frank's 71st birthday in...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Inside and to the left of the front gate.
   
• Gilbert, Bobby   b. April 6, 1898  d. September 19, 1973
  Entertainer. He was a vaudeville headliner in the 1920s, and during World War II he was part of the first USO tour to entertain American troops in the Pacific combat zones. Gilbert later played character roles on TV and in such films as "I Was a Communist for the FBI" (1951), "Al Capone" (1959), "How to Murder Your Wife" (1965), and "The Love God?" (1969). (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: New Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor T-1, Columbarium, Niche 800, Tier 8
   
• Glickman, Mort   b. December 6, 1898  d. February 27, 1953
  Film Composer, Conductor and Arranger. He is best known for his striking score for the sci-fi classic "Invaders From Mars" (1953). Born in Chicago, he came to Hollywood in 1939 after much theatre and radio experience in his hometown. On staff at Republic Pictures from 1940 to 1949, Glickman wrote stirring, effective music for over 200 films, mostly B westerns and serials, including several starring John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Hopalong Cassidy. He seldom received screen credit and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor M-6, Crypt 5303
   
• Hirschbein, Peretz    b. November 7, 1880  d. August 16, 1948
  Playwright. Last name also spelled Hirshbein. A Polish Jew who later settled in the United States, he wrote his works in Yiddish. His plays were sentimental folk dramas about Jewish village life in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th Century. The most popular among them, "Raisins and Almonds" (1915) and "The Green Fields" (1916), are considered classics of the Yiddish Theatre and are still in the international repertory. "The Green Fields" was produced as a film in 1937, co-directed by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Plains of Abraham (Formerly Section 14), Row D, Grave 33
   
• Holocaust Memorial, Beth Olam 
  This memorial was dedicated at Hollywood's Beth Olam Cemetery in 2000. A nearby bronze tablet reads: "This fountain represents the rebirth of the Jewish people out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Six channels of water, representing the six million Jews who were murdered during the WWII era, converge into a tree stump. The broken stump represents the lives that were cut off in their prime. The stump gives forth a flame, signifying the rebirth of the Jewish people and acts as an eternal...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Inside the Main Gate
   
• Jacobs, Harrison   b. October 5, 1892  d. April 9, 1968
  Screenwriter. He spent most of his 30-year Hollywood career scripting westerns. Jacobs wrote the screenplay for "Hopalong Cassidy" (1935), which introduced the popular cowboy hero (played by William Boyd), and over a dozen subsequent films in the series. His other credits include "Burning Words" (1923), "The Ridin' Rascal" (1926), "Spurs and Saddles" (1927), "Born to Be Bad" (1934), "I Am a Criminal" (1938), "Wide Open Town" (1941), and "Danger Trail" (1951). The Pennsylvania-born Jacobs...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: New Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor T-7-2, Crypt 6477 (near the stairway).
   
• Kurnitz, Harry   b. January 5, 1907  d. March 18, 1968
  Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist. He worked best in the comedy and crime genres, often combining the two with a dash of sparkling wit. Kurnitz received an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay for "What Next, Corporal Hargrove?" (1945), and a Tony nomination for the book of the Broadway musical "The Girl Who Came to Supper" (1964). His plays "Once More, With Feeling" (1958) and "A Shot in the Dark" (1961) were made into films, the latter as a "Pink Panther" vehicle...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of Shalom, Section 16, Row K, Grave 22
   
• Laemmle, Ernst   b. September 25, 1900  d. May 1, 1950
  Motion Picture Director. Born in Munich, Germany, he came to Hollywood after World War I at the invitation of his uncle, Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle. There he earned his keep as a director, turning out over 50 westerns between 1924 and 1930, including "The Lone Round-Up" (1924), "Way of the West" (1925), "The Bronco Buster" (1927), and "The Rustler's Secret" (1928). He was also one of several uncredited directors who worked on the Lon Chaney classic "The Phantom of the Opera"...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Plains of Abraham (formerly Section 14), Row L, Grave 45
   
• Pine, William H.   b. February 15, 1896  d. April 29, 1955
  Motion Picture Producer. Along with his business partner, William C. Thomas (1903-1984), he founded the Pine-Thomas Organization, an independent studio producing B pictures for release by Paramount. The two men got the nickname "Dollar Bills" because their films were so inexpensively made they never lost money. Pine-Thomas turned out over 80 features between 1941 and 1955, mostly crime dramas, westerns, and action flicks. They include such titles as "I Live on Danger" (1942), "High...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor M-9, Crypt 2473
   
• Ruby, Herman   b. March 15, 1892  d. July 30, 1959
  Songwriter, Screenwriter. A Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, he co-wrote hundreds of ephemeral ditties for Broadway shows of the 1910s and 1920s. One of them, "That Shakespearean Rag" (1912), became part of literary history when T. S. Eliot quoted it in his landmark poem "The Waste Land" (1922). He later worked in Hollywood, where his best-known songs were "It Must Be Love" for the film "Blond Cheat" (1938), "Only When You're in My Arms" for "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (1939), and "A...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of The Exodus (formerly Section 13), Lot 153, Grave 210B
   
• Shear, Barry   b. March 23, 1923  d. June 13, 1979
  Director, Producer. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Shear broke into Television in the early 1950s, becoming over the years one of the most successful and prolific veterans of this medium. Working primarily for Universal, he turned out hundreds of segments of such series as "Night Gallery", "Name of the Game", "Ironside", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "Alias Smith and Jones", "Starsky and Hutch" and "Police Woman", plus many made for TV movies like "Punch and Jody" (1974, starring...[Read More] (Bio by: Fritz Tauber)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: New Beth Olam, T-1-3, #2768
   
• Sherman, Harry "Pop"    b. November 5, 1884  d. September 25, 1952
  Motion Picture Producer. He produced 54 "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns between 1935 and 1948, all starring William Boyd. He was well-liked by his employees, who called him "Pop". (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: New Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor T-1, Crypt 2053.
   
• Small, Edward    b. February 1, 1891  d. January 25, 1977
  Motion Picture Producer. A former actor and talent agent, he began producing films in 1924. He formed Reliance Pictures in 1932 and Edward Small Productions in 1938. Working with moderate budgets and talent borrowed from other studios, he oversaw a number of commercially successful films, including "I Cover the Waterfront" (1933), "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934), "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939), "Raw Deal" (1948), and "Kansas City Confidential" (1952). He reached a peak of prestige...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: New Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor T-1, Crypt 1046 A.
   
• Tosti, Don    b. 1923  d. August 2, 2004
  Musician. Born Edmundo Martinez Tostado in El Paso, Texas, he was a composer who blended elements of jazz, boogie and blues to create the Latin "Pachuco" sound of the 1940s-era Zoot Suit culture. He was best remembered for his hit "Pachuco Boogie." Recorded in 1948, it was the first million-selling Latin song. He played with many major bandleaders, including including Jimmy Dorsey, Charlie Barnett and Les Brown. (Bio by: Richard Lombard)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
   
• Visaroff, Nina   b. March 15, 1885  d. December 14, 1938
  Actress. She was the wife of actor Michael Visaroff, with whom she performed on the Moscow stage. They settled in Hollywood in the early 1920s, but while Michael had a notable movie career Nina confined herself to local theatre and occasional roles on Broadway. She appeared in only two films, "Paddy O'Day" (1935) and "Fatal Lady" (1936), before her death at 50. (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor P, Crypt 131
   
• Waxman, Franz    b. December 24, 1906  d. February 24, 1967
  Composer. One of Hollywood's leading creators of movie music. Although adept at writing lush romantic tunes, his overall style is darker and more sophisticated in approach. Waxman particularly excelled at scoring psychological dramas and thrillers, including four Alfred Hitchcock films. He won Academy Awards for "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) and "A Place in the Sun" (1951), out of 12 nominations. His "Carmen Fantasy" for violin and orchestra, from the film "Humoresque" (1946), became a popular...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Beth Olam Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Hall of Solomon (Beth Olam Mausoleum), Foyer O, T-5, N-1
   

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