Exploring the Forbidden: Closed Sections at Forest Lawn's Columbarium | A Walk Among Legends

Unveiling Hollywood Secrets: Explore forbidden sections of Forest Lawn's Columbarium, paying respects to legendary stars like Victor McLaglen, Humphrey Bogart, and Mary Pickford. Discover hidden stories and fascinating facts behind these icons' final resting places.
Step beyond the velvet ropes and into the forbidden corners of Forest Lawn Memorial Park. This captivating video follows us as we unlock the secrets of closed columbarium, whispering tales of Hollywood icons like Victor McLaglen, Humphrey Bogart, and Mary Pickford. Witness the grandeur of the Eternal Light and Evening Star columbariums, where legends rest amidst glistening marble and fragrant roses. Unearth the lesser-known stories of silent film stars, special effects pioneers, and even a Hollywood comedian's son. From Marvin Davis's Disneyland design legacy to Mvin LeRoy's rags-to-riches journey, each niche whispers a unique tale. This is more than just a cemetery tour; it's a journey into the heart of Hollywood's forgotten past, a reminder that even in death, the stars continue to shine. So, join us on this unforgettable exploration and discover the magic that lies hidden within the walls of Forest Lawn.
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[@kevinrenfro2254]

Hey Diamond Dave I just came across your channel and I love your commentary! I look forward to watching your other videos!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you, Kevin. I'm pinning your comment.

[@TheSassy777]

Another good one Dave. Some of Hollywood’s best🎬

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks Gary

[@cherylkucharski5740]

YAY!! The door was unlocked! Great vlog!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Hi Cheryl. Lucky day so I went back to my car and searched Findagrave.

[@fearthecoffinman8000]

Thanks for the friendly walk. I can't walk very well anymore, and it's nice to see someone my age who can! Great work, friend!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks. I wish you well in strength of walking.

[@joananderson3328]

Hi Dave, I think that you do a great job. I love watching your videos and I always look forward to watching the next one. Keep up the great work. Love, Joan

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks Joan. You are kind.

[@denveralvis9378]

Hey Dave, that was brilliant, all the best from Melbourne, Australia.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks, good neighbor.

[@uncledaveyfromthenavy5452]

Sunday morning at the cemetery, nice!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Hi friend. It's one of the well-kept ones.

[@jenniferasher8807]

I just found this channel!! I’m a self proclaimed unashamed taphophile. 😂can’t wait to binge watch your content!!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Love it!

[@merhaylamlee]

Love the videos, thank you. I've walked the majority of this cemetery and it's a fairly nice - but biiig place. Thank you for sharing

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.

[@intheair2777]

Hey, can I suggest... Please give a little more time to see the Markers before covering them with the posters. I wanted to read a few but you covered them before I could read the dates and if any inscription. Thanks if you pick up my suggestion.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Will do.

[@scottrider641]

Thanks for this fascinating video, Dave. Happy New Year

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for watching Scott. Happy New Year.

[@cynthiacronin2794]

Liked your wave over your shadow.😂

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks :)

[@NormaHird]

Thank you for this great video. You give so much information for your viewers

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I try too and thanks again.

[@earth2006]

I got the feeling all the time you were making this video. You were looking over your shoulder for security.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

LOL!!! Right on!

[@oatsknight6045]

first time viewing, love it, cant wait to see more,

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you.

[@Tracey..H]

The first famous grave I accidentally happened upon was Jackie Wilson. I’m from the Detroit area. I’m a cemetery dweller, and I just happened upon him. I heard Michael Jackson paid for the grave. It is in a mediocre cemetery across from an old asylum, an old bar with a warped floor and a water tower. Not the nicest neighborhood. I’ve seen lots of Motown stars. Ppl think I’m weird to stroll in cemeteries and I agree!! Lol

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I'm exactly like you!

[@Tracey..H]

@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave hahaha!!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

We should do a vid. @@Tracey..H

[@robertmiller5516]

Shocked he doesn’t have a nicer place to rest

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Indeed. @@robertmiller5516

[@dstaugustinefl8832]

Same here, just came across your channel. You do a really good job Thanks

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

You are kind!

[@bettyfourman5438]

I like this one too, Very good.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you, Betty.

[@TheSassy777]

Good one my friend….

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks Gary.

[@Zero-cu7uy]

I find myself looking forward to your videos.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you. I like doing them.

[@Tracey..H]

Boy I wonder how expensive the Pickford tomb is- not cheap! She was Hollywoods elite. Oh wow joe Jackson has no gravestone! Interesting

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Yes and back in 1979. Not sure why Joe Jackson has none.

[@WonderfulEagle-mm1vj]

Shoeless Joe has no grave stone I think that was done on purpose. He threw the world series for the black docks. Some sports fans have not forgotten

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Good info. Thanks for sharing. @@WonderfulEagle-mm1vj

[@briansmith2182]

@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave The photo in the video is Michael Jackson's father, not "Shoeless Joe Jackson", just FYI. =) There's an awful lot of people named "Joe Jackson", I would assume that grave isn't someone of notoriety, just a guess. Thanks for your efforts on the videos.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks. Did I say shoeless Joe? Grounds keeper there said it was MJs father at the unmarked grave. Thanks for leaving a comment and viewing. @@briansmith2182

[@hollywoodharriet13]

Interesting. Thanks.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for watching.

[@cocoaorange1]

I never knew about Mervyn Leroy's early years.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

A young tough life for sure.

[@mskrisclark684]

Hi Dave. Since you visited Bogart the rumor that Lauren B. is there unmarked after she past August of 2014. 10 years this year.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for the info. I'll check it out and mention you.

[@ericlomax1793]

Humphrey Bogart died from esophageal cancer in 1959, leaving behind his wife Lauren Bacall and son Steven Bogart. Humphrey was of course a heavy smoker as you would have seen in his movies.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Yes indeed.

[@craigtalbott731]

1957. And he also had a daughter, Leslie.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for the info.@@craigtalbott731

[@littleblackduck3134]

I believe the photo shown was of John Hodiak, not George Calliga

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks for catching this.

[@mjpeters6625]

Show more of the tombstones

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Will do. I've already done a couple more that are edited but from here on out, I will.

[@lauramcintyre483]

Sorry, but that's John Hodiak with Lucy, not George Callega

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you for the correction.

[@mjpeters6625]

Linger longer please

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Gotcha!

[@RaymondBlackmanjr]

Find your page very interesting

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Very nice and thank you.

[@jeremysunderland1345]

In discussing Mervyn LeRoy, how could you NOT mention The Wizard of Oz? 😀

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I thought of this on the way home!

[@PRINCESSBAILY]

Having a "favorite" grave is just weird sir.😳🤢

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I'm weird.

[@PRINCESSBAILY]

@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave 😳

[@dano8203]

This is my 1st time visiting your channel. I really enjoyed it and you speak very well too. I hit the subscribe button and looking forward to future videos.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks and welcome. I can tell already you are a swell person.

[@jeffthomas5425]

Joan Blondell is also in the Columbarium of the evening star

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Yes she is. Thanks.

[@breeze1472]

i never understand why these people who us everyday people made them famous and rich dont allow access to their final resting place

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I know... weird.

[@Snoogins7060]

Think it’s because there are crazy fans out there who may damage or attempt to steal remains like what happened to Chaplin.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Could be.@@Snoogins7060

[@Lucy00682]

Great job my friend. Keep up the good work.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thanks Lucy.

[@craigtalbott731]

I'm acquainted w/ a couple of property owners, so I usually attempt to visit those beautiful gardens whenever I'm @ FLG. Perhaps my favorite epitaph of all time is inscribed on impresario Earl Carroll's gravesite (he's located almost directly across from Mary Pickford) which reads, "In life we weep at the thought of death; perhaps in death we weep at the thought of life".

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Nice. I may try to find this. Any directions would be great.

[@craigtalbott731]

@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave When standing directly in the front of the Pickford sarcophagus, about face to see the opposite wall, then glance @ a 45° to the left of there, towards the far south corner (the GoM is laid-out on a NW and SE angle slant). Earl Carroll's private garden is situated here, on a slight rise reached by several ascending steps. A bronze statue is in place there placed behind and above the in-ground crypts.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I'll see if I can find the location. It usually takes me 15 mins to an hour to find each.@@craigtalbott731

[@craigtalbott731]

@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave It's also about thirty yards separated from the Pickford memorial.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Found him on findagrave! @@craigtalbott731

[@GraveVisitations]

Beautiful cemetery and monuments Dave I'd love to visit America some day hopefully. Watching here in Ireland 🇮🇪👍

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I hope you can soon. I'll be your host! I just subbed your channel.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

Another great Walk with you Dave. I want to let you know Humphrey Bogart, has his wife Lauren Becall interred with him. I know that her name is not there but she is. Thank you for taking us along.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Hi Chis. I heard the same. I'm glad the door was unlocked this time.

[@YosiCalandrino-x5z]

Buddy slow down we got to hardly see the markers you were going so fast I mean it's not like those you are visiting are going anywhere soon

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

ok

[@intheair2777]

Lol... Yes I said the same thing. Of course I left a similar msg before I knew you had already done so. lol

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I hear ya. @@intheair2777

[@LJB103]

Supposedly, Lauren Bacall is also interred with Bogart (but some say "No"). The only graves of celebrities in my area that I know about are those of Charlie Chan portrayer Warner Oland and a great star of the stage, Gertrude Lawrence (the original Anna in The King and I). Very enjoyable video.

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you. I heard the same. Get out and do a vid!

[@margaridabras9281]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@billisaac9079]

How did you get permission to see these graves.?

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

The door was unlocked so I went in. Security didn't say a word and they saw me walking around.

[@j.tshark3313]

It is interesting to hear McLaglan speak in his own voice

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Yes it is. Thanks for leaving a comment.

[@ericfreshcorn3590]

Hi Dave I,m reading a Book on Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher good book

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

I bet its a good book.

[@ericfreshcorn3590]

the Title is My Girls its from Todd Fisher@@famousgraveswithdiamonddave

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Let me know if its good.@@ericfreshcorn3590

[@jillmarshall4718]

Hi Dave hoping your day is going great. Singer Natalie Coles grave is Breathtaking. Her Parents are just across the courtyard. Mr. Joe Jackson didn't have a Grave, WOW. He had Ambition for his Sons. The Famous Group, The Jackson Five. I thought he would have been buried next to Son Michael. I liked Actors, Humphrey Bogart and Robert Taylor, Rip to you All. Dave your Philosophy of What you do with your Life, I like it enjoy While you still on this Earth. I'm glad that you've got New Subscribers. Keep up the Good Work Dave. See you at the next one. And by the Way, Can't wait to see Mr. Sammy Davis Jr Grave!

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Perfect feedback as always!

[@lisafrizzell1252]

I just came across your video I must say I really enjoyed your video looking forward to other videos

[@famousgraveswithdiamonddave]

Thank you kindly.