Last stop for hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers and misfits, the Bad and the Beautiful. Fabulous funerals from Rudolph Valintino and Barbara LeMarr to Sammy Davis Jr. , where thousands jammed the streets; glitzy theme park fashioned cemeteries, tombstones shaped like automobiles and parking meters, weird and wonderful epitaphs; Mel Blanc's "That's all folks!" , Over My Dead Body" George Bernard Shaw, "Do Not Disturb" , Constance Bennett. Groucho's disappearing ashes and Errol Flynn's kidnapping. Strange last requests, last promises, last vengeance's. You know them all. California is the place to "go".
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About the Author:
Margaret Burk was the publicist for the legendary Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California and the founded of the famed Round Table West book club. died of natural causes Oct. 6 at the age of 93. She is buried at Forest Lawn in Hollywood Hills.
Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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- PublisherThe Forum Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0929765532
- ISBN 13 9780929765532
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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