Final Resting Places

[salus]

Why did several silent film stars after their deaths have their bodies brought back to Hollywood for burial when they had left Hollywood behind several decades earlier. Two were Bessie Love who had relocated to England in the 1930s and died in the late 1980's and Pola Negri who lived in San Antonio for 40 years . There are many others who lived in New York who were buried in hollywood though they were gone from there decades earlier. I guess they wanted immortality with the other stars.

[bobfells]

I understand your inquiry and it's a good question. But for the record, nobody gains immortality by being buried in California or any place else on earth. Perhaps you mean "for all time" or "until the end of time." To be immortal is, like eternity, beyond time or outside of time and that's a tough proposition for many us to understand because existing in time is all we understand.

[dr.giraud]

I understand your inquiry and it's a good question. But for the record, nobody gains immortality by being buried in California or any place else on earth. Perhaps you mean "for all time" or "until the end of time." To be immortal is, like eternity, beyond time or outside of time and that's a tough proposition for many us to understand because existing in time is all we understand.

If you were Pola Negri, where would you want the primary coverage of your funeral to be? San Antonio or Los Angeles?

[Richard M Roberts]

It may also be a simple case of that was where they had bought burial plots years before and that was where other family members were also buried.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Jay Salsberg]

Conrad Veidt has been "buried" on two coasts and on two continents. He was originally interred in Hollywood. When his widow moved east, she had his ashes transferred to Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, NY. After she died, their ashed were combined and moved to Goldner's Green in London. I believe some members of the Conrad Veidt Fan Club (which paid for the final relocation) also received a few tablespoons of Connie.

[bobfells]

Dinah Shore requested her cremated remains (not really "ashes" but more like granules) be divided between interment in Hillside MG in LA and her home in TN. Cary Grant has no grave but his cremated remains were scattered on the Pacific. Colin Clive's cremated remains were never claimed and when the funeral home went out of business quite a number of unclaimed urns were found but Clive's was not among them. His name is memorialized on a cenataph with other decedents whose remains were never claimed.

Warner Oland's cremated remains are buried in a Worchester, MA cemetery. George Arliss and his wife Florence are interred in a churchyard cemetery outside of London. Mr. A's marker states only one achievement: an honorary Masters degree he received from Columbia University in 1919. Leslie Howard was lost at sea when a passenger plane he was aboard was shot down by Nazi planes over the Bay of Biscay.

[Richard Finegan]

Warner Oland's cremated remains are buried in a Worchester, MA cemetery.

He's actually in Southborough Rural Cemetery in Southborough, MA (about 20 miles east of Worcester - NOT "Worchester"!)
That's only a few miles from me, and I've visited him several times. It's a great place to bring visiting film fan friends.

[bobfells]

Warner Oland's cremated remains are buried in a Worchester, MA cemetery.

He's actually in Southborough Rural Cemetery in Southborough, MA (about 20 miles east of Worcester - NOT "Worchester"!)
That's only a few miles from me, and I've visited him several times. It's a great place to bring visiting film fan friends.

Thanks for the correction, Richard. As you might suspect, I'm not from New England. I've seen photos of Mr. Oland's monument and it's quite beautiful and original.

[George O'Brien]

Does anyone know where Lillian Gish rests? I know that Dorothy died in Italy. Are she and Lillian together?

[Rick Lanham]

Does anyone know where Lillian Gish rests? I know that Dorothy died in Italy. Are she and Lillian together?

Lillian, Dorothy, and their mother are interred together in Manhattan. Look at the photo with their names:

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Rick Lanham