Happy 100th Birthday

William Saroyan!

AMERICAN AUTHOR

BORN: August 31, 1908, Fresno, California

DIED: May 18, 1981, Fresno, California

CAUSE OF DEATH: Cancer

BURIAL: Ararat Cemetery, Fresno, California,

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Vivian Leigh’s stunt double in ‘Gone With the Wind’

Chicago Sun-Times

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Hazel Warp, who was Vivien Leigh’s stunt double in Gone With the Wind, has died. She was 93.

A spokeswoman at Evergreen Healthcare in Livingston confirmed Friday that Ms. Warp died Tuesday at Livingston Memorial Hospital. A cause of death wasn’t released.

Ms. Warp, who rode and trained horses, was a stand-in for Leigh in all the horseback-riding scenes in the 1939 movie. She also took a fall for Leigh, tumbling down the stairs of Tara in the famous scene near the end of the film when Scarlett O’Hara reaches out to slap Rhett Butler, loses her balance and falls.

”I never will forget it,” she said of her Hollywood work in a 2005 interview with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. ”I liked it, everything about it. I just liked my work.”

Ms. Warp also appeared in Wuthering Heights, Ben-Hur and National Velvet, among other films. AP

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Happy 100th Birthday

Fred MacMurray!

 AMERICAN ACTOR

•  BORN: August 30, 1908, Kankakee, Illinois
• DIED: November 5, 1991, Santa Monica, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Pneumonia
• PLACE OF DEATH: St. John’s Hospital
• BURIAL: Holy Cross Cemetery, Mausoleum, Room 7, Crypt D1

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 CINECON 44 Film Schedule

Attend the Cinecon 44 Classic Film Festival this Labor Day weekend, August 28th to September 1st 2008, in Hollywood.

Here is the film schedule for Cinecon 44. Titles in all upper case are features and those with upper & lower case are short subjects. For more information about these films visit the Cinecon website: http://www.cinecon.org/.

 

All of these screenings will be at Grauman’s Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Admission is by day pass or full festival pass which can be purchased in advance or at the door during the show.

 

This schedule is subject to change without notice. Some films are listed here pending final clearance.

Guests appearances are confirmed subject to unforeseen circumstances.

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CELEBRITY RECIPES

Ramon Novarro

 (Allan R. Ellenberger Collection)

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Fred Crane, 90; actor who wooed Scarlett in ‘Gone With the Wind’

Fred Crane (left) with Vivian Leigh and George Reeves in Gone With the Wind (1939)

He played Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film. Crane later became an announcer on L.A. classical music station KFAC.

By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 23, 2008

Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality when he played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind, has died. He was 90.  (click on ‘Continue Reading’ for more)

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HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY

 Estelle Getty

AMERICAN ACTRESS

• BORN: July 25, 1923, New York, New York
• DIED: July 22, 2008, Hollywood, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Lewy Body disease
• BURIAL: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Plains of Abraham (Sec. 14), Row CC, Grave 88

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Getty’s temporary marker

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The 81st Annual Rudolph Valentino Memorial Service was held today in the foyer of the Cathedral Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The Valentino Memorial Committee put together an exceptional service this year and should be congratulated. The committee members include: Chanell O’Farrill, Jay Boileau, Tracy Ryan Terhune, Stella Grace and Marvin Paige.

This year’s special guest speaker was actor Tim Considine, the son of John W. Considine, Jr., producer of the Valentino films, The Eagle (1925) and Son of the Sheik (1926). Considine spoke of his father and was surprised by a brief pictorial video of Considine and his relationship with Valentino as producer and friend.

Other participants in today’s program included 95 year-old Valentino perennial, organist Bob Mitchell, Vince Morton and Ian and Regina Whitcomb who handled the musical portion. Garrett Bryant read selections from Valentino’s book of poems, Daybreak and Woolsey Ackerman spoke about and displayed a rare Valentino doll which depicted the actor from The Eagle.

TODAYS PROGRAM

 Photos from todays service…

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Special guest speaker, Tim Considine speaks with committee member, Marvin Paige

 Close-up of a rare Valentino doll from The Eagle (courtesy Woolsey Ackerman)

 Floral tributes at Rudolph Valentino’s crypt

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 VALENTINO WEEK

Valentino Tributes

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the death of actor Rudolph Valentino. Dozens of fans will assemble at Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 12:10 pm to celebrate the memory of the man.

Upon the death of Rudolph Valentino, more than 100 tributes were published from the efforts of the publicity team formed by S. George Ullman and United Artists Studios. Not before or since has such an outpouring of reaction to an actor’s death been collected. All were issued within 24 hours of Valentino’s death by newspapers around the world, which chose only select ones for publication. The following are seven tributes from friends and collegues, all of whom are also interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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