![]() ![]() IMDB lists the year of his birth as 1916.Īlthough he had served as academy president, Douglas Fairbanks never won an Oscar. Notice that the plaque says he was born in 1912. Let's take an awards-themed tour.Ĭlick arrow on right side of photo above to see eight gravesites of award winners. Resting in the shadow of Paramount Studios, Hollywood Forever Cemetery showcases the remains of many Oscar and Emmy players. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," British poet Thomas Gray famously said and nowhere are those words more poignant in Hollywood than than the graveyard containing scores of its earliest superstars. The heartthrob star of "The Shiek" expired at the age of 31 of a perforated ulcer in 1926 - that's several years before the Oscars were born. Nowadays he routinely gets upstaged by Rudoph Valentino (buried in a crypt along the opposite wall), who is blatantly worshipped by fans. Who cares about an Oscar winner? At right, entombed in the wall is Peter Finch, who died of a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel while campaigning for an Oscar for "Network" (1976). She was also nominated for the non-musical version of "A Star Is Born" (1937) co-starring Fredric March, which was nommed for Best Picture.Īt right: Gaynor accepts the statuette from academy president Douglas Fairbanks. The red arrow above marks the modest location of the humble grave of Oscar's first winner of Best Actress: Janet Gaynor ("7th Heaven," 1927 "Street Angel," 1928 "Sunrise," 1927). Huston won Oscars for directing and writing "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) and was nominated 13 more times for "The African Queen" (1951), "Sergeant York" (1951), "The Maltese Falcon" (1951), "Prizzi's Honor" (1986) and other classics. Who are Kendall and Bell? Those are the names carved on the imperial structure looming above the nearby grave of John Huston, which can be found - topped by a small cracked stone - hidden among the small flowering bushes in the photo's foreground.
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