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Chase, Ilka b. April 8, 1905 d. February 15, 1978
Actress, Novelist. Educated in the United States, Great Britain and France, she made her theatrical debut in the 1924 Broadway play "Red Falcon." She appeared in nearly two dozen Broadway productions spanning over four decades. Her theatrical accomplishments include: "Embers" (1926), "The Happy Husband" (1928), "The Animal Kingdom" (1932), "Days Without End" (1934), "On to Fortune" (1935), "Keep Off the Grass" (1940) and Barefoot in the Park from 1963 to 1967. She made her motion picture debut...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Elman, Mischa b. January 20, 1891 d. April 20, 1967
Violinist. Born Mikhail Saulovich, by age 6, he was first in his class at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1904, he made his debut with sensational acclaim in Berlin and in Paris that same year. In 1905, he made his first appearance in London to great acclaim. In 1908, he made his U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall New York, as soloist in an extraordinary performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto with Altschuler and the Russian Symphony Orchestra. He was hailed as one of the greatest virtuosos of the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Garfield (Garfinkle), John (Julius) b. March 4, 1913 d. May 21, 1952
Actor. Hollywood leading man in the 1930's and 1940's. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor, once in 1939 for Four Daughters, and again in 1948 for Body and Soul. Other noteworthy films include They Made Me A Criminal, The Sea Wolf, Destination Tokyo, Gentleman's Agreement, Humoresque, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. An active liberal, he was accused of being a Communist in the late 1940's and was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in April, 1951...[Read More] (Bio by: Decal)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Gershwin, George b. September 26, 1898 d. July 11, 1937
Composer. He is best remembered for his compositions with his equally talented lyricist older brother, Ira Gershwin. They are responsible for such hit songs as "Someone to Watch over Me" (1926), "Love Walked In" (1937), "Love is Here to Stay" (1937), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924), and for such musicals as "Of Thee I sing" (1931 - the first musical to ever win a Pulitzer Prize), and "Porgy and Bess" (1935). Born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York, of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Brain Tumor
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: George Gershwin Mausoleum near the office
Gershwin, Ira b. December 6, 1896 d. August 17, 1983
Lyrical composer, best remembered for his compositions with his equally talented younger brother, George Gershwin. They are responsible for such hit songs as "Someone to Watch over Me" (1926), "Love Walked In" (1937), "Love is Here to Stay" (1937), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924), and for such musicals as "Of Thee I sing" (1931 - the first musical to ever win a Pulitzer Prize), and "Porgy and Bess" (1935). Born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he was trained on the piano early...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: George Gershwin Mausoleum near the office
Grauer, Ben b. June 2, 1908 d. May 31, 1977
Television and Radio Personality. Grauer was born on June 2, 1908, in Staten Island, New York. He began his career first appearing in such films as, "The Mad Woman" (1919), "His Woman" (1919), "The Idol Dancer" (1920), "Annabel Lee" (1921), and "My Friend The Devil" (1922), before entering into television and radio. Grauer went onto host and narrate many films, documentaries, television, and radio programs. They include, "Gaslight Follies" (1945), as narrator, "Screen Snapshots No. 6" (1947)...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
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Hillman, Sidney b. March 23, 1887 d. July 10, 1946
Labor Leader. Born in Zagare, Lithuania, he was a key figure in founding America's labor unions and marshaling labor's support from Congress and industrial organizations. In Chicago and New York in 1913, when 45,000 garment workers stated a citywide strike, Hillman was the leader of the movement. Under his leadership in the following years, he formed and headed the national organization, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). In 1937, he pulled ACWA out of the AFL, joining John L...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Holliday, Judy b. June 21, 1921 d. June 7, 1965
Actress. Born Judith Tuvim in New York City, the only child of Russian Jewish immigrants Abraham, a fundraiser and promoter, and Helen, who taught piano. She graduated from high school in 1938, first in her class, and proceeded to a job as a telephone operator at Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. That same year, she was one of the founders of the nightclub act, the Revuers, a troupe of five writer-performers which included Holliday, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Frank, and Alvin Hammer. By the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Cancer
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Lortel, Lucille b. December 16, 1900 d. April 4, 1999
Award-winning Stage Actress and Producer. Born Lucille Wadler, she studied acting and theatre ant the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her Broadway debut in 1925 in "Caesar and Cleopatra" with Helen Hayes. She also appeared in Belasco's "The Dove" with Judith Anderson. In 1947, she founded the White Barn Theatre with the mission of developing the talents of new playwrights, composers, directors. She premiered plays such as "Red Roses for Me" (1948), "The Chairs" or "The Initiation." As...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
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Randall (Rosenberg), Tony (Leonard) b. February 26, 1920 d. May 17, 2004
Actor, Entertainer. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Felix Unger' on the hit 1970s television series, "The Odd Couple," for which he won an Emmy Award. A highly respected and accomplished stage actor, he was popular in numerous Broadway plays. He appeared in many motion pictures, including "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957), "Pillow Talk" (1959), "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964), and "Our Man in Marrakesh" (1966). In his later years, he was seen in comic cameo appearances on David Letterman'...[Read More] (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Cause of death: Complications of pneumonia
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Reinhardt, Max b. September 8, 1873 d. October 31, 1943
Actor, Director. Born Maximilian Goldmann of Jewish ancestry in the former country of Austria-Hungary, he worked as a theater director in Berlin, Germany, from 1902 to 1933, specifically the Deutsches Theater, as well as the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, Austria. He was credited for introducing new dimensions into the German theater by employing powerful staging techniques and harmonizing stage design, language, music, and choreography. He has an interest in filmmaking as a director and...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Rose, Billy b. September 6, 1899 d. February 10, 1966
Broadway Producer, Song lyricist, Entrepreneur. He was born William Samuel Rosenberg in the Bronx. After graduating from The High School of Commerce in New York, Rose was trained in shorthand by Robert Gregg the creator of the Gregg shorthand system. At age 16, he won a high speed dictation contest sponsored by Gregg and was hired by the creator to prove the systems efficiency. During WWI he obtained a position as a stenographer in Washington D.C. to Bernard Baruch who was the head of the War...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Mausoleum across the drive from the Gershwin mausoleum and near the cemetery entrance.
Rosenthal, A. (Abraham Michael) M. b. May 2, 1922 d. May 10, 2006
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist. He was Managing Editor of the New York Times from 1969 to 1977, and Executive Editor from 1977 to 1988. Abraham Michael Rosenthal was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the son of Jewish immigrants who had come to Canada in the 1890s. His father, a fur trapper who had changed his surname from Shipiatsky to Rosenthal, later moved his family to New York City. There Rosenthal grew up in the Bronx, graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, and went on to City...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Rossen, Robert b. March 16, 1908 d. February 18, 1966
Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter, Producer. Born Robert Rosen to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised in a rough neighborhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Following a stint as an amateur boxer, he began acting in stock and later became a playwright and director for the Washington Square Players and the Theatre Guild. When his play "The Body Beautiful" (1936) flopped on Broadway, he accepted an offer to come to Hollywood as a screenwriter. A political idealist in his youth, Rossen...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Silver, Ron b. July 2, 1946 d. March 15, 2009
Actor, director, producer, and political activist. Born Ronald Arthur Silver, the son of May Zimelman Silver, a teacher, and Irving Roy Silver, a clothing sales executive, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, graduating from Stuyvesant High School. He then went to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he graduated with a BA in Spanish and Chinese. He would later obtain a Master's Degree in Chinese History from St. John's University, and attend the College of Chinese...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Block J
Strasberg, Lee b. November 17, 1901 d. February 17, 1982
Actor. Born in Budzanov, Austria, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1908. He began acting in plays as a teenager and joined the New York City Theatre Group in 1931. He performed in some notable plays through the 1930s and joined the Manhattan Actors' Studio in the 1940s. Although he remained primarily as stage performer, he did appear in a number feature films such as "Storm in a teacup" (1937), "The Third Man" (1949), "China Venture" (1953) and "The Gun Runners" (1958). He...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Strasberg, Paula b. 1909 d. 1966
Co-founder of the Actors Studio. She was Marilyn Monroe's coach and off-screen advisor. Married to renowned acting teacher Lee Strasberg and mother of actress Susan Strasberg. (Bio by: David Zipperer)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Susskind, David b. December 19, 1920 d. February 22, 1987
Emmy Award winning producer for "The Ages of Man" (1966) and executive producer of two television docu-dramas on the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Tisch, Laurence Alan b. March 5, 1923 d. November 15, 2003
Businessman. Controversial former head of CBS for nine years and co-founder of Loews with his brother Bob. Under his tenure with CBS, the Tiffany Newtwork lost NFL football from their schedule and their weeknight news show plummeted to third place in the ratings. He also instituted massive cuts which resulted in layoffs and massive budget cuts from the news department. He took over Loews in 1961 and eventually acquired the Lorillard tobacco company and the Bullova Watch Company. Today Loews is...[Read More] (Bio by: Allcalmap)
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Tisch, Preston Robert b. April 29, 1926 d. November 15, 2005
Financier, Business Magnate. In 1959, he with the Tisch brothers bought a controlling interest in Loews Theatres, Corporation, a real estate-rich theater chain. The Loews Corporation is now one of the largest diversified financial corporations in the United States. He served as Postmaster General of the United States from August 1986 to March 1988. In February 1991, he purchased a 50% interest in the New York Football Giants and assumed the position of Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer of...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Cancer
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