They lived among the stars, but were laid to rest right here on Earth. But where? Some of these celebrities' final resting places may be closer than you'd think.
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00:00They lived among the stars but were laid to rest right here on Earth.
00:04But where?
00:05Some of these celebrities' final resting places may be closer than you'd think.
00:10Arguably one of the greatest guitarists ever to walk the Earth, Jimi Hendrix died at just
00:1527 years old on September 18th, 1970.
00:19Hendrix was found in a room at London's Samarkand Hotel, belonging to his on-again, off-again
00:24romantic partner, Monica Dannemann.
00:27Details of the hours leading up to Hendrix's death are vague, with Dannemann and others
00:32having changed their accounts multiple times.
00:35Hendrix apparently took strong sleeping pills combined with red wine, which caused him to
00:40vomit but not wake up, until he ultimately choked to death.
00:43The coroner returned an open verdict on his death, however.
00:47Hendrix's burial was also a little contentious.
00:50In 1970, he was buried in a plot at the Greenwood Memorial Park Cemetery in his hometown of
00:56Renton, Washington, marked by a simple gravestone that read,
01:00"'Forever in our hearts.'"
01:01But in 1999, his family announced plans to build a 27-foot stone memorial in the cemetery,
01:08partly funded by fans, complete with granite pillars, a domed roof, and sculptures.
01:14Hendrix's friends protested that digging him up was disrespectful, but to no avail.
01:19In 2002, the memorial was completed, and Hendrix was moved there to lie alongside his father,
01:25stepmother, and grandmother.
01:28Jim Morrison was in Rockstar retirement when he died in his Parisian home on July 3, 1971.
01:35Like Hendrix, Morrison was just 27 when he died.
01:38The official story is that he was found dead in his bathtub from heart failure, but some
01:43supposed witnesses have since come forward to say that he may have fatally overdosed
01:47on heroin in a nightclub toilet cubicle and was carried back to his apartment by a pair
01:52of drug dealers.
01:55Morrison's grave at Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery is one of the most famous in the
01:58world, which is impressive when you consider that he's not the only prestigious name at
02:03that cemetery.
02:04Père Lachaise is also the eternal home of world-renowned figures including Oscar Wilde,
02:11Marcel Proust, Edith Piaf, and Frédéric Chopin.
02:15But the biggest crowds still gather to visit Morrison's impressive shrine, which includes
02:20a bronze plaque engraved with his name, date, and an ancient Greek epitaph chosen by his
02:26father that reads,
02:27Kata tan daimana iatu.
02:30This is usually roughly translated as,
02:32True to his own spirit, but it could also mean true to his own demons, a potential reference
02:37to the troubles that drove Morrison to Paris in the first place.
02:42One of the most famous scousers in history, not to mention an icon of swingin' 60s London,
02:48John Lennon left his home country for New York in 1971.
02:52Having married the artist Yoko Ono two years earlier, Lennon hoped that the bustling, celebrity-filled
02:57city would shield him from the constant attention that came with having been a Beatle.
03:02Instead, nine years later, on December 8th, 1980, Lennon was shot dead outside his home
03:08by Mark Chapman.
03:09And they went inside the gate, and then all of a sudden there were five, six shots, and
03:13that was it.
03:14Chapman later said that he'd chosen to kill Lennon because of his fame, believing it would
03:19in turn bring him self-glory.
03:21On October 9th, 1985, Lennon's 45th birthday, an area of Central Park was dedicated to the
03:29musician.
03:30Lennon had enjoyed many walks in the tranquil space.
03:33Renamed Strawberry Fields, in tribute to one of Lennon's favorite Beatles songs, it features
03:38a mosaic with the word Imagine at the center, which was presented as a gift by the city
03:42of Naples, Italy.
03:44Ono herself was involved in the creation of the memorial, and it's believed that she scattered
03:48Lennon's ashes in the area.
03:51The Beatle George Harrison spent nearly four years being treated for cancer before dying
03:56at age 58 on November 29th, 2001.
04:00He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997, and then with lung cancer in 1999.
04:06That year, he also survived being stabbed multiple times by a home intruder.
04:11In 2001, Harrison had surgery to treat the lung cancer and underwent more radiation to
04:17treat a brain tumor, but ultimately died from the disease.
04:21Harrison was a follower of the Hare Krishna movement, a branch of Hinduism.
04:25In accordance with Hindu beliefs, he was cremated shortly after his death at the Hollywood Forever
04:30Memorial Park.
04:32Hare Krishna's spokesman told the press that Harrison's wife Olivia and son Dhani would
04:37be scattering his ashes in the Ganges.
04:39Ganges is a sacred river in Hindu theology, located in Varanasi, India.
04:44Crowds of fans and press headed to the city, only for the society to retract its previous
04:50comments.
04:51It's believed that Harrison's family did scatter his ashes in the river, but that they waited
04:55until they could do it more privately.
04:59The most notorious detail about the death of the Mamas and the Papas singer Mama Cass
05:03Elliott on July 28th, 1974, is absolutely incorrect.
05:08Namely, she did not die from choking on a ham sandwich.
05:12That was a rumor put out by her manager, Alan Carr, who was worried that Elliott had died
05:17from a drug overdose and didn't want anyone to know.
05:20Unfortunately, the ham sandwich story has since been twisted into a number of cruel
05:24jokes about Elliott's weight.
05:27In fact, Elliott died from heart failure, potentially brought on by the crashed diets
05:32she'd long experimented with, mostly because she was so badly mocked for her size.
05:38At 32 years old, Elliott died at a London apartment owned by musician Harry Nielsen,
05:43who was out of the country at the time.
05:45Her body was flown back to California, where she was buried at Los Angeles' Mount Sinai
05:50Memorial Park, marked with a simple plaque.
05:54Four years later, Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, died of a clomothiazole overdose at the
06:00same apartment.
06:01Disturbed by the deaths of his friends, Nielsen sold the apartment to Moon's bandmate, Pete
06:06Townsend.
06:08Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Roy Orbison was only 52 when he died of a heart attack
06:13on December 6, 1988, but he'd lived through multiple tragedies by that point.
06:19In 1966, his first wife, Claudette Frady, was killed in a motorcycle crash.
06:25Two years later, two of their three sons, Roy Jr. and Anthony, died in a fire at their
06:30house near Nashville while Orbison was on tour.
06:33Then, having made the top ten nine times between 1960 and 1965, Orbison's career steeply
06:40declined.
06:41However, in between these three great losses, Orbison met the woman who became his second
06:47wife, teenage pre-med student Barbara Jacobs.
06:50The two married in 1969 and went on to have two sons together while also raising Orbison's
06:56surviving son, Wesley, from his first marriage.
06:59In the 1980s, Jacobs became Orbison's manager, and he experienced something of a comeback.
07:05In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and by then he'd also formed
07:10a supergroup, the Traveling Wilburys, which also included Tom Petty and Bob Dylan.
07:15The very next year, however, he died suddenly.
07:18Orbison is buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, but his grave is currently
07:23unmarked.
07:24However, you can find its location based on the grave of Barbara, who was buried beside
07:28him when she died in 2011.
07:31After living about as full-on a life as it's possible to live, Frank Zappa died of prostate
07:36cancer on December 4, 1993, aged 52.
07:41His family announced his death with a statement, reading,
07:44"'Composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before 6 p.m. Saturday.'"
07:49Zappa was buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, a surprisingly conventional
07:54choice for someone who determinedly bucked convention at every opportunity.
07:59The cemetery is the final home of many superstars from movies, music, and the arts.
08:03In 2020, a single burial plot there cost a staggering $745,000.
08:10There is one thing that's unusual about Zappa's resting place, however.
08:14He's buried in an unmarked grave, supposedly near Roy Orbison's similarly low-key resting
08:20place.
08:21His family is never given an exact reason for this, but it certainly fits with the character
08:25of a man who always preferred to take the path less-traveled.
08:29The Beach Boys lost more than a bandmate when 39-year-old Dennis Wilson, the band's drummer,
08:34drowned on December 28, 1983.
08:37In addition to being the middle brother of Brian and Carl, he was Mike Love's cousin,
08:42too.
08:43Dennis was swimming with three other people off the Marina del Rey harbor when he dived
08:48underwater and never resurfaced.
08:50The week after his death, President Ronald Reagan intervened so that Dennis' body could
08:55be buried at sea, per his wishes, an honor usually reserved for veterans of the Navy
09:00or Coast Guard.
09:01In 1997, Dennis' younger brother Carl was diagnosed with cancer, although he continued
09:07to play with the band while receiving treatment.
09:09In December that year, the Wilson brothers' mother, Audrey, died, aged 80, and was buried
09:14in Los Angeles' Westwood Memorial Park.
09:17Her grave marker identifies her as the original surfer girl.
09:22Two months later, on February 6, 1998, Carl died, too, and was buried in the same cemetery.
09:29Elvis Presley struggled to find privacy when he was alive, and even after his death, people
09:34couldn't keep their hands off him.
09:36When Presley died of a heart attack on August 16, 1977, aged 42, the nation went into mourning
09:43and, in some cases, denial.
09:46The day after Elvis' death, his father, Vernon Presley, allowed around 30,000 fans to view
09:52his son lying in state in Graceland.
09:56At the funeral procession the following day, Elvis was taken to Forest Hill Cemetery in
10:00a white hearse, followed by 17 white limousines, for a private ceremony.
10:06Vernon had wanted his son buried at Graceland, but it wasn't zoned for burials.
10:11So instead, Elvis was interred inside a steel-lined coffin weighing nearly 1,000 pounds and placed
10:18in a large mausoleum next to his mother, Gladys.
10:21The tomb was then sealed with a double layer of concrete and covered with a marble slab.
10:26That wasn't the end of it, though.
10:28On August 29, three men were caught trying to steal Presley's body with the intention
10:33of ransoming it.
10:35After that, the burial rules were waived and Elvis and Gladys were returned to Graceland.
10:40When Vernon died in 1979, he was buried next to them.
10:45One of music's greatest love stories started in the Grand Ole Opry and ended less than
10:5020 miles away in Hendersonville Memory Gardens.
10:53In 1956, upcoming country star Johnny Cash met the already famous June Carter backstage
10:59at the famous Nashville venue.
11:01It wasn't supposed to be love at first sight, however, as both were married to different
11:06people.
11:07Nonetheless, that night, Cash reportedly told Carter he was going to marry her.
11:11Their professional and personal relationship deepened in the 60s, when the pair started
11:16touring together.
11:17Carter was inspired to write Ring of Fire about her illicit feelings for Cash.
11:22In 1966, Cash's first wife, Vivian Liberto, finally sued him for divorce, on grounds of
11:28infidelity and his addictions to various drugs and alcohol.
11:32Carter and Cash officially became a couple, but it was only when he proposed to her live
11:37on stage in front of 7,000 people on February 22nd, 1968, that she agreed to marry him.
11:44And she did, just over a week later.
11:46The couple was married for 35 years, until Carter's death, aged 73, on May 15th, 2003.
11:54Cash died a few months later, on September 12th.
11:57They are buried next to each other in a joint plot in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Tennessee.
12:02We share the backstage, on stage, we share the music, the feeling and the emotion and
12:07the joy of it, you know, and the pain and the sadness of it.
12:11If anything is certain in the world of rock and roll, it's that life can end suddenly.
12:16But David Bowie wasn't worried about that.
12:18As his keyboardist Mike Garson once explained to Billboard, Bowie had decades of advance
12:24warning, because in the 1970s, a psychic told him he would die at 69 or 70.
12:30Garson added,
12:31"[Bowie didn't doubt it for a second.
12:33He accepted it and planned his future out based on that."
12:37And sure enough, Bowie died on January 10th, 2016, after what was described in an official
12:43statement as an 18-month battle with cancer.
12:46He'd turned 69 two days earlier.
12:49Bowie's early warning, as well as his cancer diagnosis, ensured that the singer could make
12:54his final wishes clear.
12:56He asked that his ashes be cremated and scattered in Bali, following Buddhist rituals practiced
13:01on the island.
13:03Despite these very clear instructions, and no evidence that his family had any intention
13:07of ignoring them, there were still rumors that Bowie's widow Iman had given permission
13:12for some of his ashes to be scattered at 2016's Burning Man festival.
13:16Bowie's son Duncan Jones immediately took to Twitter to shut down the claim, writing,
13:22What people will do and say for attention never ceases to amaze me.
13:26Not true."
13:27Kind of a gross claim, as well.
13:30Losing Eddie Van Halen in 2020 was a painful twist in a year that had already claimed so
13:35many lives.
13:36The guitarist rose to fame with his eponymous band, co-founded with his brother Alex, and
13:41revolutionized the sound that could be made with an electric guitar.
13:44He inspired real and fictional guitarists alike, even providing the music for Marty's
13:50Alien tape in Back to the Future, although he politely declined to part in the Bill & Ted
13:55movies.
13:56Bogus!
13:57Van Halen was 65 when he died of a stroke on October 6th, 2020, after battling cancer.
14:03He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2000, but in 2004 said that the cancer was
14:09gone.
14:10A few weeks after his death, his son Wolfgang revealed that his father had been diagnosed
14:14with advanced lung cancer in 2017 and given only six weeks to live.
14:19Van Halen received treatment in Germany, which Wolfgang credits with the three years he survived
14:23after the diagnosis.
14:25But in 2019, following a motorcycle accident, Eddie was found to have a brain tumor.
14:31It's believed that Wolfgang granted his father's final wishes and scattered his ashes off the
14:35coast of his hometown of Malibu, California.
14:39One-third of the most famous girl group to emerge from Motown, Supreme Mary Wilson died
14:44suddenly on February 8th, 2021, aged 76.
14:49The cause was later reported as hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a
14:55buildup in the arteries caused by high blood pressure that eventually leads to heart failure.
15:00In keeping with restrictions on funeral sizes imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson's
15:05family held a small private ceremony for her on March 16th, with the intention of holding
15:10a larger gathering when it was safe.
15:13Wilson was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, which is also
15:17the final home of a number of other legendary artists, actors, and musicians.
15:23Most importantly to Wilson, she was buried next to her son, Raphael Ferrer, who had died
15:28in a car crash in 1994, aged just 14.
15:32She left behind three other children, including a cousin whom she'd adopted, ten grandchildren,
15:37and one great-granddaughter.
15:39Queen singer and songwriter Freddie Mercury was never afraid to bask in the adoration
15:44of enormous crowds, but he didn't want that kind of attention after his death.
15:50Diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in 1987, Mercury knew that he would likely
15:55die within a matter of years.
15:57He decided that he wanted to be cremated and knew just where he wanted his ashes scattered,
16:02but only told his close friend and ex-fiancée, Mary Austin.
16:06Not even his parents knew.
16:08Mercury told Austin that the reason for the secretiveness was because, in his words,
16:13"...I don't want anyone to dig me up.
16:15I just want to rest in peace."
16:17After Mercury died at age 45 on November 24, 1991, he was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery
16:24in northwest London.
16:26Austin delayed scattering the ashes for two years, however, worried that someone would
16:31see her and reveal Mercury's resting place to the world.
16:34In 2013, a plaque honoring Farouk Bulsara, Mercury's birth name, was found on a tree
16:41in the cemetery in which Mercury had been cremated.
16:45It was inscribed with the phrase,
16:46Pour tous sur, détois avec tout mon amour, M.
16:51In English, this means,
16:52"...always to be close to you with all my love."
16:55Although many assumed the M stands for Mary, Austin has since denied that she scattered
17:00Mercury's ashes there.
17:04According to his New York Times obituary, Ray Charles once told an interviewer,
17:07"...it's not a question of how long I live, but it's a question of how well I live."
17:12Although there was never going to be a good time to say goodbye to the multi-talented,
17:16genre-defying genius of soul, Charles did live to 73, which is impressive by rock star
17:22standards, especially given that he overcame an addiction to heroin, and he continued to
17:26record music and play live into his last year.
17:30Charles died from complications of liver disease on June 10, 2004.
17:34He was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, home to a number of other industry
17:39icons, from Ella Fitzgerald to Etta James to Sugar Ray Robinson.
17:44Charles' memorial service at LA's First African Methodist Episcopal Church was also a star-studded
17:50affair.
17:51Unsurprising, given Charles' legendary status, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, and B.B. King
17:56all performed, and the 1,500 attendees included Reverend Jesse Jackson and Quincy Jones.
18:03Jones told The New York Times that he'd give anything to get Charles back, but also admitted,
18:07"...I know that heaven has become a much better place with him in it."
18:11"...I knew there was a man that had a voice that touched my heart."
18:17The family, friends, and fans of Irish band the Cranberries were shocked and dismayed
18:23when frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan died on January 15, 2018, aged just 46.
18:30O'Riordan was found dead in the bathtub of her room in London's Hilton on Park Lane,
18:35where she'd been staying during recording sessions.
18:38She had called her mother at around 3 a.m. and was found around six hours later.
18:42An inquest found a high level of alcohol in her blood, concluding that her death was a
18:47tragic accident.
18:49O'Riordan's body was returned to her native Ireland.
18:52Before her funeral, she lay in repose in an open coffin in St. Joseph's Church in the
18:57city of Limerick, where thousands lined up to pay their respects.
19:01The funeral took place on January 23 at the local church in her hometown of Ballybricken,
19:07County Limerick, where she used to sing in the choir.
19:10That day, radio stations across the country played the Cranberries' hit, When You're Gone,
19:15in her honor.
19:16After the private service, O'Riordan was buried next to her father, Terence, in Powerley Cemetery,
19:22a couple of miles away.
19:24Chuck Berry is so integral to rock music that in 1986, he became one of the first inductees
19:30into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
19:32Many consider his 1955 track, Maybelline, the seed that grew into the genre of rock
19:37and roll.
19:38Berry started singing in his church choir aged six and picked up the guitar as a teenager,
19:44performing in a number of small-time talent shows.
19:47He was in his thirties when he wrote many of his most popular songs, and released eight
19:51top 40 hits between 1955 and 1960.
19:55As he grew older, Berry continued to play.
19:58In 2014, at 88 years old, he was still playing a monthly gig at local St. Louis restaurant
20:04and bar Blueberry Hill.
20:05On his 90th birthday, he announced the release of what would be his last album, Chuck, which
20:11he dedicated to his wife of 68 years, The Metta.
20:15Before it was released, however, Berry died of natural causes on March 18, 2017.
20:21He was buried in Bellarive Heritage Gardens in his native St. Louis, Missouri.
20:26You can probably guess where Prince chose as his eternal resting place, but it still
20:31comes with a uniquely Prince twist.
20:34The iconic singer's sudden death at age 57 on April 21, 2016, rocked the whole world.
20:41It was especially shocking, and no less sad, to learn that he had died from an accidental
20:46fentanyl overdose.
20:47The star had consistently presented himself as anti-drugs and alcohol, even banning alcohol
20:53and cigarettes from his famous Minnesota estate, Paisley Park.
20:57Prince was cremated two days after his death in a private service, as fans laid tributes
21:02outside Paisley Park.
21:04At the time, his publicist said that the location of his remains would be private, but that
21:09October, it was announced that Paisley Park would reopen as a museum, and Prince himself
21:15is now the main attraction.
21:17As of 2021, Prince's ashes are contained in an urn, designed in collaboration with his
21:23sister Tyka Nelson and nephew President Nelson, that sits in the foyer of Paisley Park.
21:29The urn is a miniature version of his house, complete with a purple piano, working lights,
21:34and his gem-studded logo.
21:36If you apologize, then I'll drop the whole thing, too.
21:38I know, I'll do it, but you say it first.
21:40Well, we'll both say it at the count of four.
21:42No, no, we did that already, and it didn't work.
21:43So I'll do it again.
21:45Johnny and Joey Ramone famously hated each other, so it's probably a good thing that
21:50they're buried on opposite sides of the country.
21:53The pair never really got on, but their animosity boiled over when Joey's girlfriend Linda Danielle
21:59cheated on him with Johnny.
22:01The couple later married.
22:03When Joey was dying of lymphoma, Johnny refused to visit him.
22:07The only former bandmate who did was Tommy Ramone.
22:10Joey died on April 15, 2001, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lynnhurst, New Jersey.
22:17Johnny did not attend the funeral.
22:19The following year, on June 5, Dee Dee Ramone died of a heroin overdose, aged 50, shortly
22:25after the band had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
22:28He was buried in L.A.'s Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
22:32Johnny followed him there two years later, when he died of prostate cancer, aged 55,
22:36on September 15, 2004.
22:39Johnny was cremated, and Linda kept his ashes, but he also had a four-foot statue of himself
22:44placed in the cemetery.
22:46Joey isn't totally alone on the East Coast, though.
22:49Tommy Ramone died on July 11, 2014, of cancer of the bile duct, and was buried in New Montefiore
22:56Cemetery, New York.
22:59Jess Joplin died of an accidental heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, three weeks after the
23:05death of Jimi Hendrix, and nine months before that of Jim Morrison.
23:09Two days later, Joplin was cremated at Los Angeles' Westwood Village Mortuary, with just
23:1510 people in attendance.
23:17Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Marin County, north of San
23:22Francisco, as Joplin had requested.
23:25You can't visit the exact spot where Joplin was laid to rest, but it's actually possible
23:30to visit the room where she died at the Landmark Hotel, which is now the Highland Gardens Hotel,
23:35on Franklin and North Sycamore Avenues in Hollywood.
23:38If you're feeling morbid, you can even sleep there.
23:41Today, Room 105 is home to a plaque commemorating Joplin, while the closet is filled with fans'
23:47scribbled tributes to the legendary singer.
23:50The lead singer of the enormously popular rock band Nirvana is dead.
23:54Apparently, he was a suicide at the age of 27.
23:58The story of Nirvana frontman and grunge icon Kurt Cobain's death is well-known.
24:03Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, at his home in Seattle, Washington.
24:09His body was found three days later.
24:11After Cobain's death, his widow Courtney Love had his body cremated.
24:15The couple had been intermittent Buddhists, and so Love wanted to give Cobain's remains
24:21the appropriate spiritual treatment.
24:23She divided the ashes, scattering some into the Wishka River near Cobain's childhood home,
24:29and keeping some herself, reportedly in a bear-shaped handbag alongside her wedding
24:34dress.
24:35She took these ashes to a Buddhist monastery in Ithaca, New York, and left some with the
24:40monks for consecration.
24:42The monks mixed the ashes with clay and turned them into tzatzis, a kind of cone-shaped sculpture
24:48around three inches tall and painted gold, which is intended to be kept in a small shrine.
24:54Love took the remaining ashes back home.
24:56She kept them in her closet until 2008, when she reported that they had been stolen, apparently
25:01by someone she knew.
25:03Much like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, James Dean's face can be found plastered on
25:08all kinds of memorabilia from Hollywood's Golden Age.
25:12Unlike Hepburn and Monroe, however, Dean only filmed three feature films before his untimely
25:18death at 24.
25:19Dean was born in 1931 in Marion, Indiana, yet spent his teenage years bouncing between
25:25California and his hometown.
25:27He stayed in the Golden State to major in theater at the University of California, Los
25:31Angeles, but by 1951, he was off to New York.
25:35After appearing on Broadway's The Immoralist in 1954, he snagged a screen test at Warner
25:41Brothers for East of Eden, a role that catapulted him into Hollywood.
25:46While James Dean will forever be remembered for his leading role in Rebel Without a Cause,
25:51sadly, he never got a chance to see it, or his final movie, Giant, released.
25:56On September 30, 1955, the actor got into a fatal car crash with his Porsche 550 Spyder.
26:03His remains are buried in Fairmount Park Cemetery in Grant County, Indiana.
26:09It's hard to find someone who can't recognize the melodic crooning of old Blue Eyes himself,
26:13Frank Sinatra.
26:14The New Jersey-born singer was also loved by the silver screen, having acted in some
26:19Hollywood classics such as High Society alongside fellow musical legend Bing Crosby.
26:25When Sinatra's music career began to falter in the early 50s, acting was his saving grace
26:31and ultimately garnered him the attention he needed to make a comeback.
26:35He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1953's From Here to
26:40Eternity, and two years later, he was nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role category
26:46for his turn in The Man with the Golden Arm.
26:49On May 14, 1998, Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82.
26:54He was buried in the Desert Memorial Park close to Palm Springs, California.
26:59During this time, he went to the great beyond with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a pack
27:04of Camel cigarettes tucked into his suit.
27:07Marilyn Monroe needs no introduction.
27:09The woman-born Norma Jean Mortensen is one of the world's most legendary sex symbols,
27:15and an immensely successful movie star whose movies grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.
27:21Discovered by a photographer, Monroe began her career as a model in the 1940s.
27:26She later dyed her hair her signature blonde, changed her name to her now-iconic moniker,
27:32and signed her first movie contract in 1946.
27:34What's the big day tomorrow?
27:36Tomorrow I'm on television.
27:39By the end of the 50s, Monroe was a box office hit, having starred in classics such as 1953's
27:45Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and 1959's Some Like It Hot.
27:49However, just because stars shine bright in Tinseltown doesn't mean they can't burn out
27:54just as fast.
27:56Just as the 60s rolled around, Monroe was struggling in her personal life, and her box
28:00office draw was floundering.
28:02In 1962, Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose at just 36.
28:08Monroe is buried in Los Angeles, California, in the Westwood Village Memorial Cemetery.
28:13Her ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio, organized the funeral, and three times a week for 20 years
28:18after her untimely death, the baseball legend had red roses delivered to her simple grave.
28:24In 1992, the late Hugh Hefner, who had Monroe as Playboy's first playmate, bought a tomb
28:30next to the actor so that he could spend eternity beside her.
28:34"'Nah, nah.
28:37He's looking at you, kid."
28:39It's hard to think of Humphrey Bogart without remembering his iconic performance in 1942's
28:45Casablanca.
28:46But as one of the biggest movie stars of his time, he brought his inimitable presence to
28:51dozens of other projects throughout his career.
28:54The actor, who started off as a Broadway star in the 20s, became one of Hollywood's leading
28:58men in the 1940s, with hits such as The Maltese Falcon and To Have and Have Not.
29:05As Bogie himself once claimed,
29:07There was a period in American history when you couldn't pick up a g-----ed magazine without
29:11seeing my kisser in it.
29:13Diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1956, Humphrey Bogart died the following year, on
29:19January 14, 1957.
29:22In a nod to To Have and Have Not, his wife and co-star Lauren Bacall placed a gold whistle
29:27with the inscription,
29:28"'If you want anything, just whistle,' with his cremated remains in an urn."
29:33You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?
29:36You just put your lips together and blow."
29:40The actor's final resting place is in a secluded garden in Glendale, California's Forest Lawn
29:45Memorial Park.
29:47One of the most enduring stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Elizabeth Taylor had a whopping
29:5279 credits to her name at the time of her death in 2011.
29:56Unlike some of her peers, Taylor was notorious for remaining true to who she was throughout
30:01her career, refusing to pluck her eyebrows or dye her jet black hair.
30:061963's Cleopatra is, by far, Liz Taylor's most memorable role.
30:12On the set of that movie, she met Richard Burton, whom she married for a decade, divorced,
30:17then married again only to split less than a year later.
30:21And just as popular as she was on camera, Taylor and Burton's relationship also made
30:26headlines for their rollicking, hard-drinking lifestyles.
30:29When Taylor died on March 23, 2011, of congestive heart failure, she was buried at the Forest
30:35Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
30:39As her son Michael told ABC News, her legacy will never fade.
30:43Elegant and doe-eyed Audrey Hepburn will forever be remembered as Holly Golightly, the flighty
30:48lead in Hollywood's 1961 movie adaptation of Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's.
30:56Her delicate looks and soft-spoken demeanor were refreshing in Hollywood at the time,
31:01with Humphrey Bogart once declaring of her,
31:03"'You take the Marilyn Monroes and the Terry Moores, and you know just what you're going
31:07to get every time.
31:09With Audrey, it's kind of unpredictable.'"
31:11Born in Brussels and growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland, Hepburn left for England in her teens
31:17and eventually made it all the way to Broadway.
31:20By 1953, she starred in Roman Holiday alongside Gregory Peck, taking home her first Oscar
31:26for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
31:28By the 70s, Hepburn stopped acting as regularly, turning her sights to humanitarian efforts.
31:34Hepburn is buried in a small cemetery in Touloshana, Switzerland, the small village she lived in
31:40from 1963 until her death.
31:42Judy Garland is one of Hollywood's greatest legends of the screen, but it's no secret
31:48that behind the camera, she lived a tragic life.
31:51Her mother, a success-oriented stage mom, was dubbed by the star herself as the real
31:56Wicked Witch of the West, and before Garland even turned 10, she was feeding her pills,
32:02both to sleep and to keep her energy levels high.
32:05Substance abuse problems would follow her for the rest of her life.
32:08Beyond The Wizard of Oz, she starred in movies like 1944's Meet Me in St. Louis and 1954's
32:15A Star is Born, performing until her untimely death at the age of 47 in 1969 from an accidental
32:22overdose.
32:23Garland reportedly did not die wealthy, and owed a staggering $4 million to the IRS.
32:29She was initially buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in New York, but in 2017, it was
32:35reported that her family had her moved to Hollywood, where she was laid to rest with
32:39honors in the Judy Garland Pavilion, a mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
32:47Known for her sultry good looks and throaty voice, Lauren Bacall was a quintessential
32:51glamour girl of Hollywood's golden age.
32:54Born Betty Joan Persky, her career took off in the early 40s when she found success as
32:59a model, posing for Harper's Bazaar in 1943.
33:03It's then that she was spotted by Nancy Hawks, the wife of film director Howard Hawks.
33:09The star's powerful presence shot to the top of the A-list almost immediately.
33:13She found success with her first big-screen role, 1944's To Have and Have Not, opposite
33:19Humphrey Bogart.
33:20It wasn't just professional triumph that Bacall snagged with that role, however.
33:25She also won over the heart of Bogie himself, who at the time was a married man.
33:30The pair wed on May 21, 1945, and stayed together until his death in 1957.
33:38Bacall died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89.
33:42Like her husband, she was buried in the Garden of Memory at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park
33:47in Glendale, California.
33:49Clark Gable will forever be remembered as the mustachioed heartthrob uttering one of
33:54cinema's most classic yet cruel exit lines in 1939's Gone with the Wind.
34:00"'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
34:03Although Gable wasn't conventionally attractive by the standards of his era, he was still
34:08dubbed the King of Hollywood, thanks to a 1938 national poll.
34:13Gable's rise to the A-list was an interesting one that came by way of his first wife.
34:18According to the Los Angeles Times, the actor's better half, Josephine Dillon, ran an acting
34:24clinic where she would coach stage actors in the skills they needed to transition to
34:28making movies.
34:30It was through Dillon that Gable truly perfected his acting chops, and after acting in 1931's
34:36The Painted Desert, MGM offered him a contract.
34:39The rest, as they say, was history, and by the end of the year, Gable had established
34:44himself as a leading man.
34:46Clark Gable died on November 16, 1960, at the age of 59, after suffering from two heart
34:52attacks.
34:53Like many of his classic movie star peers, he was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial
34:57Park in Glendale, California.
35:00While Marlena Dietrich's image was carefully crafted like many of her industry peers, she
35:06was nothing like Hollywood had seen before.
35:08Born in Berlin, Germany, the future Touch of Evil star knew she was interested in acting
35:13as early as her teens.
35:15By the late 20s, Dietrich made herself a part of film history by appearing in Germany's
35:20first talkie, Der Blaue Engel, in 1930.
35:24She was shot again in English using the same cast, and thus set Dietrich on the map in
35:28America too.
35:30Dietrich is remembered as one of Tinseltown's greatest stars due to her voice and alluring
35:35charisma.
35:36As author Amy Lawrence explains for the Criterion Collections' Dietrich and von Sternberg in
35:41Hollywood, Dietrich was labeled as a bad girl, an unconventional antithesis of an American
35:47girl that added spice to her roles.
35:50The Morocco actor died in Paris on May 6th, 1992.
35:55According to Lonely Planet, she was buried in Städtischer Friedhof Drei, a small cemetery
35:59in Berlin, with a modest plot.
36:02In terms of Hollywood royalty, Grace Kelly may actually top that list because she quite
36:07literally left the bright lights of Tinseltown to become a full-fledged princess.
36:12Prior to becoming Grace of Monaco, Grace Kelly was one of Alfred Hitchcock's many muses,
36:18starring in Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief.
36:22What's more, the Philadelphia-born star was also an Oscar winner, taking home an Academy
36:27Award for her role in 1954's The Country Girl opposite Bing Crosby.
36:32A mere two years later, Grace gave up her life in Hollywood after meeting Prince Rene
36:37III of Monaco, whom she married in an elaborate ceremony on April 19th, 1956.
36:43Tragically, Grace Kelly's life was cut short on September 13th, 1982, after she died in
36:50a car crash.
36:51Per UPI, the Monaco royal family buried the star in a private ceremony at the Cathedral
36:57of Monaco.
36:59Quite possibly the most iconic child star to ever grace Hollywood's silver screen, Shirley
37:04Temple is legendary.
37:06Throughout her film career, which spanned from the mid-30s all the way to the late 40s,
37:11Temple completed nearly 60 different movies, all before the age of 22.
37:15Retiring from filmmaking in her 20s, Temple avoided falling into a spiral that sometimes
37:20plagues former child stars.
37:23Instead, Temple turned to politics, working in the State Department as an ambassador to
37:28Ghana and Czechoslovakia, among other roles, taking the name Shirley Temple Black after
37:33her husband, Charles Black.
37:35It must be hard for an awful lot of people to take Shirley Temple seriously.
37:41But Shirley Temple Black, I think they are.
37:43Shirley Temple died on February 10th, 2014, at the age of 85.
37:48She was buried in the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California.
37:53In 1941, Orson Welles released Citizen Kane.
37:57Today, it is considered by many cinephiles as the greatest movie ever made.
38:02Welles' ascent to the A-list began at the age of 19 after the young actor made his Broadway
38:07debut with Romeo and Juliet.
38:09From the stage, he turned to radio, running a weekly theater show on CBS, where, in 1938,
38:16Welles aired his adaptation of H.G.
38:18Welles' novel The War of the Worlds.
38:21With Hollywood studios suddenly zeroing in on the 24-year-old genius, Welles signed a
38:26$225,000 contract with film company RKO in 1940, promising total creative control for
38:34him to direct, write, and produce two films, the first of which was Citizen Kane.
38:40On October 10th, 1985, Welles died from a heart attack in Los Angeles.
38:46Per AP, two years later, his daughter held a ceremony, burying Welles' ashes on a farm
38:52in Malaga, Spain, a request he made in his will.