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Magnin, Edgar F. b. July 1, 1890 d. July 17, 1984
Religious Leader. Rabbi of the B'nai B'rith (later Wilshire Boulevard Temple) congregation in Los Angeles for 65 years. He was nicknamed the "Rabbi to the Stars" for his association with noted film and TV celebrities. The grandson of department store founder I. Magnin, he was born in San Francisco and educated at Hebrew Union College in Cincinatti, where he was ordained in 1913. Returning to California, he founded Temple Beth Israel in Fresno and became rabbi of Stockton in 1914. The following...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section C
Mayer, Jerry Gershon b. April 16, 1891 d. September 29, 1947
Motion Picture Executive. The brother of movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, he was born Gershon Meir in Brooklyn. After working as an industrial executive in Montreal, he became plant manager of Louis B. Mayer Productions in 1918 and location manager for the newly formed MGM in 1924. The brothers quarreled frequently and in 1930 he set himself up as a talent agent, representing such stars as [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Truth, Crypt 420 NW
Mayer, Louis B. b. July 4, 1885 d. October 29, 1957
Motion Picture Executive. As Vice President in charge of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from its inception until 1951, he was the mightiest of Hollywood moguls. Although not creative himself, he was an administrative genius whose best efforts epitomized all the virtues of the major studio system. Mayer's MGM was the ultimate "dream factory", a manufacturer of innumerable classic films that promoted a wholesome, rose-tinted view of America for global consumption. A 1998 Time magazine poll...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cause of death: Leukemia
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, #405
Mayer, Rudolph W. b. April 17, 1889 d. February 27, 1951
Entrepreneur. Born Rubin Meir in New York City, he was the brother of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer and the black sheep of the Mayer clan. He grew up working in his father's junk business and in 1912 launched a booming scrap metal enterprise in Montreal. As President of the Dominion Iron & Wrecking Company and its several subsidiaries, he pioneered in using canalons to raise sunken ships from the ocean floor. In 1917 he retooled his organization to manufacture artillery shells for Japan's war...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Solace, Crypt 403 NW
Myers, Carmel b. April 4, 1899 d. November 9, 1980
Actress. One of the silent screen's most bewitching vamps. She was born in San Francisco, the daughter of an Australian rabbi who later served as a technical advisor on D.W. Griffith's epic "Intolerance" (1916). Myers made her acting debut as a slave girl in that film and stayed on at Triangle Pictures as a Griffith protege. Moving to Universal in 1919, the exotic, raven-haired beauty made her mark in films as a dark seductress and went on to vamp such top stars as Douglas Fairbanks...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: 1/2 block, plot 3, row 3, grave 3
Neumann, Kurt b. April 5, 1898 d. August 21, 1958
Motion Picture Director, Producer. Prolific, efficient director of B pictures, with an emphasis on fantasy and action. He is best remembered for the classic sci-fi thriller "The Fly" (1958). Neumann was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and came to the United States in the early 1930s to shoot foreign-language versions of Universal talkies. He was the original choice to direct "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), but was replaced at the last minute by James Whale. His subsequent career was spent with...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum, Corridor of Eternal Light
Norwood, Harry b. September 1, 1888 d. November 4, 1952
Theatrical talent agent.
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition X2, Row 1, Grave 56
Porter, Viola Adele b. May 30, 1879 d. December 28, 1942
Actress. She was a frontier stage entertainer in the late 1800s to early 1900s. She is best known for being a part of western actor Jack Langrishe's theater troupe which performed at the Langrishe Theatre in Deadwood, South Dakota and later in all the states on the west coast. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition 2, Row A, Grave 40
Rapf, Harry b. October 16, 1880 d. February 6, 1949
Motion Picture Producer, Studio Executive. Born in New York City, he was raised in Denver and had a brief career as a Vaudeville entertainer before venturing into theatre management. An independent film producer from 1915, he was General Manager of Warner Bros. in the early 1920s and was credited with the discovery of canine superstar Rin-Tin-Tin. In 1924 Rapf joined the newly-formed MGM as one of its top three...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, C-104 SW
Ross, Marvin b. 1922 d. 1989
Stage and screen actor. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Home of Peace Mausoleum, Corridor of Eternal Life
Sandrich, Mark b. August 26, 1900 d. March 4, 1945
Motion Picture Director. Real name Mark Rex Goldstein. His fame rests on the five Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals he directed for RKO in the 1930s, including their greatest, "Top Hat" (1935). Born in New York City and trained as an engineer, Sandrich went to Hollywood in 1922 as a propman and began directing two-reel comedies in 1927. His...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section A, Plot 80, Grave 1
Schlank, Morris R. b. 1879 d. June 29, 1932
Motion Picture Producer. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he arrived in Hollywood around 1914 and ran a costume rental service before establishing himself as an independent producer in 1919. His output consisted of westerns, comedies, and action pics, with occasional forays into sexploitation, all made on shoestring budgets. During the 1920s Morris R. Schlank Productions had a reputation as one of the poorest of Poverty Row studios, where features were ground out in a matter of days and where...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition 1, Row 4, Grave 33
Skirball, Jack H. b. June 23, 1896 d. December 8, 1985
Movie Producer, Developer, Philantropist. Skirball attended the University of Cincinnati and Western Reserve College in Cleveland then went on to study for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College. After his ordination in 1921, he served as an assistant rabbi in Cleveland for two years and rabbi of a temple in Evansville, Indiana, for seven years. In 1933, he left the congregation to become the manager of Educational Films Corp. where he produced 'Birth of a Baby', the first motion picture to show...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition 3M, row 2, grave #63
Spiegel, Abraham b. 1907 d. April 10, 2004
Philanthropist and survivor of four concentration camps. Born in Mukachevo, now in the Ukraine, he built a new life in America as a businessman, philanthropist and supporter of Jewish life. In 1944, he, his wife and their 2-year old son were imprisoned in Auschwitz Concentration Camp; the parents survived, but their son died in a gas chamber. After liberation by the Russian army, in 1947 the couple arrived in the United States with few resources and very limited English. Spiegel established...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Stern, Abe b. 1888 d. July 12, 1951
Motion Picture Producer. As head of Universal Studios' comedy unit from 1917 to 1929, he produced over 500 slapstick shorts, including the popular "Buster Brown" and "The Newlyweds and Their Baby" series. He was notorious in Hollywood for his relentless cost-cutting. When a director once asked for an expensive location shoot, Stern famously replied, "A rock is a rock, and a tree is a tree. Shoot it in Griffith Park!" Director [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Solace, Crypt 107A SW
Stone, Bernard b. January 15, 1883 d. February 22, 1942
Renowned stage and motion picture director.
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition 2, Row C, Grave 32
Traub (Weintraub), Joe (Joseph) b. October 12, 1902 d. November 8, 1936
Screenwriter. A comedy specialist, he often set his scripts in Hollywood and spiced them with industry in-jokes that are a delight for film buffs. "The Death Kiss" (dialogue, 1932) is a lighthearted mystery featuring Bela Lugosi; for "Keystone Hotel" (1935) he reunited many Mack Sennett veterans for a final, epic pie-fight. Among his other credits are "The Merry Wives of Reno" (1934), "Romance of the West" (1935), "King of the Islands" (1936), and the Joe E. Brown vehicle "Earthworm Tractors" (...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Addition 7, Row 7, Grave 8
Vidor, Charles b. July 27, 1900 d. June 4, 1959
Motion Picture Director. Born Karoly Vidor in Budapest. He served as an infantry lieutenant in the Hungarian Army during World War I and drifted into odd jobs at the UFA studio in Berlin. Arriving in Hollywood in 1924, he worked as an assistant director, editor, and screenwriter before making his directing debut in 1931. Vidor became a solid craftsman who made the most of shoddy scripts and rose to the occasion with quality material, especially when his obvious love of music was engaged. With "...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Interred in same mausoleum as Harry Warner
GPS coordinates: 34.0220909, -118.1753464 (hddd.dddd)
Warner, Harry b. December 12, 1881 d. July 25, 1958
Motion Picture Executive. Co-founder of Warner Bros., with his siblings Sam, Jack, and Albert Warner. The oldest of the four, he was born Hirsch (or Harold) Morris Eichelbaum in Krasnosielc, Poland, and arrived in the US with his family in 1883. It was at his suggestion that the family entered the movie business in 1903 by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Family mausoleum, center of Garden Cone of four Warner Brothers
GPS coordinates: 34.0220909, -118.1753464 (hddd.dddd)
Warner, Jack b. August 2, 1892 d. September 9, 1978
Motion Picture Executive. Co-founder of Warner Bros., with siblings Harry, Sam, and Albert Warner. The youngest of 12 children of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was born Joseph Leonard Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada. His father was an itinerant peddler who pursued get-rich-quick schemes throughout the northeastern US. In 1903 the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cause of death: Pulmonary edema
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Jack Warner Garden

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