Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits [Paperback]

Margaret Burk (Author), Gary Hudson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1996

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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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Seven Locks Press (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929765532
• ISBN-13: 978-0929765532
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,932,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The book was interest, but contained many inaccuracies., October 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits (Paperback)

The book contains many interesting tidbits on famous dead movie stars, but it full of glaring mistakes. For example, in one section on William Randolph Hearst his wife is named as Millicent. However, in the section on Marion Davies his wife is named Pheobe, who is actually his mother. I have found inaccurate dates and locations. One paragraph will contradict another. The amount of errors makes the whole book suspect. Also, directions to some of the stars final resting places is detailed and others not all. For a serious Thantologist, I would only recommend this book for entertainment value.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Final Curtain a book for those who loved and love the movies, April 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits (Paperback)

In reading Final Curtain I found myself back in the Hollywood of yesteryear with those famous names and people who made HOLLYWOOD and its movies great. I enjoyed the book immensely,Final Curtain is not just a book about death and gravestones, but about the people who gave and used their various talents to entertain.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A DELIGHTFUL VIEW OF HOLLYWOOD FROM THE BOTTOM UP!!, April 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits (Paperback)

This book takes you on a wild ride around Hollywood from a most unusual vantage point...underground! Informa- tive, compelling and highly entertain ing, Hudson and Burk bring you amid the funny, the melancholy, and, always captivating lives and deaths of those who have made Tinseltown famous. Our tour brings us to the many large cemetaries in southern California. We are consumed by not only our fond memories of these greater than life legacies, but, by the stone monuments they had left behind. From through the eyes of experienced tour guides, we are brought past these icons, filling our heads with a part of the Hollywood image we never knew. After viewing these haunting images of our own fates, we realize too, that now, we are all much wealthier than any person we had the pleasure of meeting throughout each of our visits to them!