How to Visit Celebrity Graves at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery
Whenever visiting Hollywood, people want to take a tour of the homes and palatial estates of famous actors both past and present. For those that are interested, they can also take a tour of the graves of many other famous actors and actresses at the Forest Lawn Glendale cemetery on Glendale Avenue. This park is the final resting place for notables including George Burns, Nat King Cole and W.C. Fields. Read on to learn how to visit celebrity graves at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery.
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Instructions
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Pick up a map of the grounds from the kiosk at the front gate. This will guide you through the facilities.
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Drive to the north east corner of the park to find the Court of Freedom. Here you will find the graves of Alan Ladd, Jeanette MacDonald, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Nat King Cole, Dorothy Dandridge, Larry Fine, Chic and Gummo Mars, Francis Bushman and Clara Bow.
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Find the ashes of Walt Disney in a small private garden to the right of the Freedom mausoleum.
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Walk to the west to find the Garden of Everlasting Peace, and the resting places of Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy and Clayton Moore--the ever popular "Lone Ranger."
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Travel to the far west of this group of gardens, and look for the Immortality section. In here you can find the baseball legend Casey Stengel and actor Dan Dailey.
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Drive down the hill. On your right between a statue of Michelangelo's David and the Christus, you will find the Gardens of Memory and the Gardens of Remembrances. Between these two gardens you will find the resting places of Humphrey Bogart, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Mary Pickford. Across the street in the Garden of Ascension you can find the grave of Ethel Waters.
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Use your car to continue north west on this same road until you pass the Hall of Resurrection. Inside you will find the Wee Kirk of Heather chapel. Here you will find the grave of Jimmy Stewart almost directly in front of the Taylor monument's archer's bow a few rows in.
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Follow your map to the Great Mausoleum. Inside this great edifice you will find the tombs of Jean Harlow, Red Skelton, Marie Dressler, Sid Grauman, Irving Thalberg, Jack Carson, Ellen Corby, Theda Bara, Clark Gable, Clara Lombard, David O. Selznick, W.C. Fields. Lon Chaney, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, and William Boyd.
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Tips & Warnings
Prowl the other areas of the cemetery to find other famous graves. You can find unofficial maps of the park, with graves marked at the Seeing Stars web site.
More than 60,000 people have been married at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery.
Be aware that this cemetery frowns on movie fans hunting down the graves of celebrities, so you may want to be on the look-out. Many areas are private and will be gated and locked when you visit.
