Things to do in LA when you’re dead
Feeding my obsession with dead celebrities, I visited the equivalent of a Dead Celebrity Theme Park. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I found my way to two of the many final resting places of the famous and near famous. Here are some of the graves I saw.
Rodney Dangerfield and Carroll O’Connor and Hugh O’Connor (note that Nancy O’Connor still walks the earth)
Ray Bradbury (wait…. Ray is STILL ALIVE!)
Carl Wilson (formerly of the Beach Boys, now of dead) and Dean Martin (direct from the bar)
Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood (note the coins left on the grave markers)
Mel Torme and Bob Crane (Bob’s wife, Sigrid Valdis, although listed on the stone, hasn’t joined him for eternity yet)
Note: Sigrid Valdis passed away on October 14, 2007. I swear I had nothing to do with it.
Buddy Rich (Mel Torme, also buried in this cemetery, wrote a book about Buddy Rich) and Les Brown
Fay Wray and Don Knotts (actually buried in different cemeteries from each other)
Johnny Ramone and Hattie McDaniel (Forever neighbors in eternity. Hattie’s grave is circled to show its proximity to Johnny’s grave)
Mel Blanc, Virginia Rappe and Jayne Mansfield
The DeMille family plot, featuring Cecil B.
Very creepy giant statues of saints welcome you to a very creepy mausoleum that is the eternal home to….
Rudolph Valentino and David White
…and Peter Lorre
CLICK HERE for part 2, one year later
