Curated playlist
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- Bette DavisBette Davis's tombstone reads, "She did it the hard way." A director suggested the epitaph after All About Eve.
- Lucille BallLucille Ball's real-life pregnancy became an I Love Lucy episode, and CBS banned the word "pregnant."
- Buster KeatonBuster Keaton's deadpan face began when he stopped laughing in his father's vaudeville act.
- Carrie FisherCarrie Fisher once asked to be reported as drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra.
- John SingletonAt 24, John Singleton became the first African American nominated for the Best Director Oscar.
- Brittany MurphyBrittany Murphy stood on the stage of the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards with a very simple job. She was to read the names of five nominees, open an envelope and announce the winner. Instead, the American actress and singer turned the…
- LemmyA bronze figure of Lemmy now stands on Market Place in Burslem, the Stoke-on-Trent district where Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on the 24th of December 1945. Local sculptor Andy Edwards made it. It was unveiled on the 9th of May 2025, with…
- Aaron CarterAaron Carter was nine years old when he walked onto a stage in Berlin in March 1997 to open for the Backstreet Boys, the group his older brother belonged to. He was 34 when he died, in 2022. Between those two points lay millions of records…
- Richard MarquandRichard Marquand got the Return of the Jedi job after George Lucas admired Eye of the Needle.
- Michael HutchenceMichael Hutchence, the lead singer and lyricist of the Australian rock band INXS, was 37 years old when he died in a Sydney hotel room. The band was due to open its 20th anniversary tour in Sydney on the 23rd of November 1997. With…
- Matthew PerryMatthew Perry spent a decade playing Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom Friends, yet he later said he had no memory of three years of that work. By 2002, he and his five co-stars were each earning $1 million per episode. Millions of viewers…