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The men and women interred at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York.
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Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and Richard never returned to college. He appeared in a number of films before signing a contract with D.W. Griffith in 1919. Griffith put Richard into Broken Blossoms (1919) with Lillian Gish which made him a star. He had an uncanny ability to become the characters he played. The next year, he was again teamed with Lillian in Way Down East (1920). This film would become the standard for many movies in the future. Best remembered is the river scene in which Richard jumps over the ice floes in search of Lillian as she heads towards the falls. He formed Inspiration Pictures to make Tol'able David (1921) and gave one of his best performances as a lad who saves the U.S. mail from the outlaws. He remained popular throughout the twenties and became one of the biggest stars at First National Pictures. He received Academy Award nominations for The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928). Sound was not a medium that would embrace Richard. He did make a number of talkies in the first few years of sound, but his acting technique was not well suited for sound and the parts began to get smaller. With his career over by the mid-30s, but he came back with a fine performance in Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Richard joined the Navy Reserve in 1942, and when the war ended he retired to Long Island and lived off his real estate investments.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 8, Alcove BB, Column B, Memorial Niche 1- Music Department
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No American has written more first-rate songs than Arlen. He grew up in a musical family (his father was a cantor), and disappointed but didn't surprise his parents by dropping out of high school to become a musician. A stint as pianist and singer with a dance band, the Buffalodians, allowed him to escape Buffalo for New York City. Arlen stayed on after the band's demise; after some mostly unsuccessful attempts to conquer vaudeville or Broadway, Arlen stumbled onto a tune that, with lyrics by Ted Koehler, became "Get Happy", his first hit. With Koehler as lyricist, Arlen became the staff composer for Harlem's Cotton Club, a premiere showcase for African-American entertainers such as Cab Calloway and Ethel Waters. They wrote "I've Got the World on a String" and "Ill Wind", among dozens of others. Arlen's second important collaborator was E.Y. Harburg, with whom he composed the score for _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_, celebrated specialty numbers for Bert Lahr and Groucho Marx, and two Broadway musicals. In the 1940s, Arlen reached the peak of his popularity with his third major partner, Johnny Mercer; most of their hits, such as "Blues in the Night", "My Shining Hour" and "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", were written for the movies, as Hollywood replaced the stage as the songwriters' most lucrative market. As he aged, Arlen grew increasingly frustrated with Hollywood's waste of material and Broadway's rigmarole; his personal life in this period was also unhappy. His best songs, though, in renditions by performers li ke Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra and later cabaret singers and jazz musicians, have continued to be seen as classics.Plot: Hickory, Grave 1666- Actress
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Arleen Augér was born on 13 September 1939 in Long Beach, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Die Piraten (1968), Desire (1992) and Alcina (1990). She died on 10 June 1993 in Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands.- Arthur 'Bugs' Baer was born on 9 January 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and editor, known for They Learned About Women (1930), Headin' Home (1920) and Battle Royal (1932). He was married to Louise Allcut Andrews and Marjorie Cassidy. He died on 17 May 1969 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 6, Private Alcove D, Niche 4
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James Baldwin is known for Giants and The Face (1998).Plot: Hillcrest A, Grave 1203- Actor
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Harry Archer was born on 21 February 1886 in Creston, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921), The Trail of the Octopus (1919) and The Red Ace (1917). He was married to Ruth Gilette. He died on 23 April 1960 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Prospect, Grave 1015- Music Department
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Born in Hungary in 1881, Bartok began his musical studies on the piano at age five. His mother was his first teacher; after his father died in 1888, the Bartok family moved to Nagyszolos, where Bela continued his piano studies and took up composition. At age eleven, he made his first public appearance, playing his own piano music. Bartok enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. he made several tours of Europe after his graduation in 1902. In 1940 Bartok moved to the United States to get away from the Nazi expansion, and was given a teaching position at Columbia University in New York City. With the exception of some noted musicians - conductor Serge Koussevitzky and violinist Yehudi Menuhin in particular - he was generally misunderstood and ignored by the musical establishment. He contracted leukemia in the early 1940s, and died in the fall of 1945, unaware of the monumental status he would achieve after death.Plot: St. Peter, Grave 470
Original Burial Site.- Mary Beard was born in 1876 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was married to Charles Beard. She died in 1956.Plot: St. Paul, Plot 309
- Sherman Billingsley was born on 10 March 1896 in Enid, Oklahoma, USA. He was married to Hazel Marguerite Donnelly and Iva Dee Risk. He died on 4 October 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 8, Alcove Y, Crypt 74
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Composer, songwriter ("When Love Has Gone"), conductor, pianist, author and arranger, he came to the USA during World War I. He was a pianist in New York Ballrooms, then organized his own orchestra and toured the US in vaudeville. He was a pianist on radio, then a music director and arranger for radio and for television networks. He joined ASCAP in 1939, and his chief musical collaborators included W. Edward Breuder and Paul Rusincky. His other song compositions include "You're Everything That's Lovely", "In the Same Old Way", "In My Little Red Book", "The Wide Open Spaces", "Sam the Vegetable Man", "Let's Make Up a Little Party", and "If You Were Mine".Plot: St Paul section, plot 184, Grave 2- Actress
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Corsican Irène Bordoni was one of several Broadway stars who failed to translate their success to the screen. Born to Italian parents, she was an assured child actress in her native country before emigrating to the United States. There, she established herself on the Great White Way in musical revues and adaptations of spicy French farces. Beginning in 1913, she notched up a string of hits and accumulated fame and fortune over the next sixteen years. At this time, she was married to the composer and theatrical impresario E. Ray Goetz who promoted her as a successor to the late Anna Held. Often described as 'volatile', Irène made the most of her oo-la-la French appeal, her accent, flamboyant costumes, brunette bangs, pursed lips and rolling eyes becoming her trademark. In 1929, Irène arrived arrived in tinseltown 'quietly' with a carload of trunks and an entourage which included a chauffeur, a secretary, a chef and two maids. She established herself in Beverly Hills while maintaining a lavish home off Park Avenue in New York (her other real estate included a villa on the French Riviera and an apartment in Paris). Her movie debut was a First National picture co-produced by her husband, fittingly entitled Paris (1929). Based a Cole Porter musical, it gave Irène the chance to recreate her Broadway success opposite English star Jack Buchanan. The rather moderate response at the box office was likely because the original Cole Porter score had been unaccountably dropped (incidentally, Porter thought so highly of Irène that he wrote the line "You're the eyes of Irene Bordoni" in his lyrics for "You're the Top"). In the same year, Irène appeared in an all-star revue,Show of Shows (1929), but this did not ignite her film career either. Irène returned to Broadway but resurfaced a few more times on the silver screen, notably warbling the title number in the animated Dave Fleischer short Just a Gigolo (1932) and as Madame Bordelaise (according to New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, she wore "the tag most refinedly") in the supporting cast of Louisiana Purchase (1941), again reprising her stage role. When not appearing on stage, La Bordoni maintained a high profile in America's court rooms through a series of well publicised litigations.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit ? Tier AA-CC, Column A, Niche 12- Actress
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Singer, songwriter, composer, arranger and actress, Connee Boswell studied with Otto Finck. With her sisters Vet Boswell and Martha Boswell she formed The Boswell Sisters, appearing on records, radio, in theaters and films, but later continuing her career as a single. In World War II she entertained the armed forces and appeared in the Broadway shows "Star Time," "Curtain Time," and "Show Time." Joining ASCAP in 1953, her song compositions include "Putting It On," "I Don't Mind," and "You Ain't Got Nothin'".Plot: Hillcrest J, Grave 227- Born in the Harlem section of New York City, joined the Navy, then studied drama at New York University; was an announcer for then joined the Negro Ensemble Co. in 1970 for such productions as "The River Niger", "Square Root of the Soul" and "The Brownsville Raid"; worked with repertory groups such as the Minnesota Theater Co., Inner City Repertory Co., and the American Shakespeare Co.; first appeared on the screen in 'Che! (1969), then returned to stage until the late 1970s when he did low-budget films The Hitter (1978), Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980)) before achieving his greatest success in A Soldier's Story (1984) (from the stage play for which he collected two awards), which earned him an Oscar nomination; appeared in The Color Purple (1985) and was working on Tough Guys (1986) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas when he collapsed on the set of a heart attack and died a short time later. He was only 52.Plot: Beechwood section, Grave 238
- King Calder was born on 21 April 1897 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Time Table (1956), The Best of Broadway (1954) and Martin Kane (1949). He was married to Ethel Wilson. He died on 28 June 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 7, Alcove NNJJ, Column O, Niche 14
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Bandleader, songwriter ("Minnie the Moocher", "Are You Hep to That Jive?"), composer, singer, actor and author, educated at Crane College. While studying law, he sang with the band The Alabamians, and took over the group in 1928. He led The Missourians orchestra, then organized and led his own orchestra, playing at hotels, theaters and nightclubs throughout the US, and making many records. He joined the cast of the touring company of "Porgy and Bess", which performed across the USA and Europe between 1952 and 1954. When that ended, he founded a quartet. Joining ASCAP in 1942, he collaborated musically with Jack Palmer, Buck Ram, Andy Gibson, Clarence Gaskill, Irving Mills and Paul Mills . His other popular song compositions include "Lady With the Fan", "Zaz Zuh Zaz", "Chinese Rhythm", "Are You In Love With Me Again?", "That Man's Here Again", "Peck-A-Doodle-Doo", "I Like Music", "Rustle of Swing", "Three Swings and Out", "The Jumpin' Jive", "Boog It", "Come on with the Come-on", "Silly Old Moon", "Sunset", "Rhapsody in Rhumba", "Are You All Reet?", "Hi-De-Ho Man", "Levee Lullaby", "Let's Go, Joe", "Geechy Joe", and "Hot Air".Plot: Rosewood Mausoleum, 6A-BBB-C252 (third floor)- Actor
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Northern Calloway was born on 22 January 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sesame Street (1969), Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988) and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978). He was married to Terry Calloway. He died on 9 January 1990 in Ossining, New York, USA.Plot: Hickory 2, Grave 438- Costume Designer
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Hattie Carnegie was born on 15 March 1886 in Vienna, Austria. She was a costume designer, known for Born to Be Bad (1950), The Secret Fury (1950) and Two Against the World (1932). She was married to John Zanft and Ferdinand Fleischman. She died on 23 February 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 7, Alcove NN, Private Memorial Room 1, Crypt 2- Actress
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Mady Christians was born in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the US, she started out as a stage actress but soon found new challenges in the world of cinema. Her first film was at the age of 24 when she appeared in Audrey (1916). She remained in German films for the next 17years before coming to the US and starring in The Only Girl (1933). Mady left the film industry in 1948 after finishing All My Sons (1948).
She died on October 28, 1951, in Norwalk, CT, from a cerebral hemorrhage.Plot: Oakwood section, grave 1946- Actress
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Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She was a good dancer, though, and -- perhaps seeing dance as her ticket to a career in show business -- she entered several contests, one of which landed her a spot in a chorus line. Before long, she was dancing in big Midwestern and East Coast cities. After almost two years, she packed her bags and moved to Hollywood. Crawford was determined to succeed, and shortly after arriving she got her first bit part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies (1925).
Three films quickly followed; although the roles weren't much to speak of, she continued toiling. Throughout 1927 and early 1928, she was cast in small parts, but that ended with the role of Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928), which elevated her to star status. Crawford had cleared the first big hurdle; now came the second, in the form of talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their careers evaporate, either because their voices weren't particularly pleasant or because their voices, pleasing enough, didn't match the public's expectations (for example, some fans felt that John Gilbert's tenor didn't quite match his very masculine persona). But Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed (1929), was a success. As the 1930s progressed, Crawford became one of the biggest stars at MGM. She was in top form in films such as Grand Hotel (1932), Sadie McKee (1934), No More Ladies (1935), and Love on the Run (1936); movie patrons were enthralled, and studio executives were satisfied.
By the early 1940s, MGM was no longer giving her plum roles; newcomers had arrived in Hollywood, and the public wanted to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1945 she landed the role of a lifetime. Mildred Pierce (1945) gave her an opportunity to show her range as an actress, and her performance as a woman driven to give her daughter everything garnered Crawford her first, and only, Oscar for Best Actress. The following year she appeared with John Garfield in the well-received Humoresque (1946). In 1947, she appeared as Louise Graham in Possessed (1947); again she was nominated for a Best Actress from the Academy, but she lost to Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Crawford continued to choose her roles carefully, and in 1952 she was nominated for a third time, for her depiction of Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952). This time the coveted Oscar went to Shirley Booth, for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). Crawford's career slowed after that; she appeared in minor roles until 1962, when she and Bette Davis co-starred in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Their longstanding rivalry may have helped fuel their phenomenally vitriolic and well-received performances. (Earlier in their careers, Davis said of Crawford, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie", and Crawford said of Davis, "I don't hate [her] even though the press wants me to. I resent her. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that.")
Crawford's final appearance on the silver screen was in the flop Trog (1970). Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of a heart attack in New York City. She was 71 years old. She had disinherited her adopted daughter Christina and son Christopher; the former wrote a tell-all book called "Mommie Dearest", The Sixth Sense published in 1978. The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much debate, particularly among her friends and acquaintances, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband. (In 1981, Faye Dunaway starred in Mommie Dearest (1981) which did well at the box office.) Crawford is interred in the same mausoleum as fellow MGM star Judy Garland, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 8, Alcove E, Crypt 42- Henrietta Crosman was born on 2 September 1861 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Charlie Chan's Secret (1935), The Right to Live (1935) and The Royal Family of Broadway (1930). She was married to Maurice Campbell and Sedley Brown. She died on 31 October 1944 in Pelham Manor, New York, USA.
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Myrtle Vail was born on 7 January 1888 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Myrt and Marge (1933), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and A Bucket of Blood (1959). She was married to George Damerel. She died on 18 September 1978 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 4, Columbarium 2, Arcade, Column L, Niche 5- The daughter of a Hungarian baroness and a military officer, Lya De Putti went on to perform classical ballet in Berlin, Germany, after a brief stint in Hungarian vaudeville. She later made several films at the German UFA studios, most notably Variety (1925), before going to Hollywood in 1926. While in America she starred in several movies, mostly in vamp roles.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 1, Alcove D, Crypt 31
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O.L. Duke's acting career breakthrough occurred when he replaced Denzel Washington in Charles Fuller 's Pulitzer Prize-winning original production of "A Soldier's Play" (later made into the film A Soldier's Story (1984). He was a member of both the renowned Actors Studio and the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). He appeared in numerous off-Broadway plays and on other well-known stages throughout the US and abroad, including The Kennedy Center and Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.; Connecticut's Hartford Stage and The Long Wharf Theater; The Geva in Rochester, New York; The Guthrie in Minnesota; The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The ACT Theater in Seattle, Washington; and The Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duke guest-starred and co-starred in award-winning television productions, such as Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), NYPD Blue (1993), Law & Order (1990), New York Undercover (1994), HBO's original series Oz (1997), and the PBS documentary _"This Far by Faith" (2003) (mini)_. Some of his theatrical film credits include Out of Time (2003), Antwone Fisher (2002), Piñero (2001), The Keeper (1995), Sugar Hill (1993), Malcolm X (1992) and The Five Heartbeats (1991).- Donna Michelle was born on 8 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), One Spy Too Many (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). She was married to David M. Ronne. She died on 10 April 2004.Plot: Mausoleum Unit 4, Columbarium 2, Arcade, Column L, Niche 5
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Lew Fields was born on 1 January 1867 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), The Barker (1917) and Mike and Meyer Go Fishing (1915). He was married to Rose Harris. He died on 20 July 1941 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 4, Columbarium 2, Alcove D, Column E, Niche 5