Sleepy Hollow
The men and women buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County New York.
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Alice Brady was born in New York City on November 2, 1892. She was interested in the stage from childhood, as her father was famed Broadway producer William A. Brady. After a few stage productions, Alice was discovered by movie producers in New York, since this was the film capital at the time. Her first film was at the age of 22 when she starred in As Ye Sow (1914). She was immediately put to work in a number of film projects. Although she appeared in three films in 1915, the following year saw her in nine productions. Alice was one of the fortunate actresses to make a successful transition from the silent era into the sound age. In 1936 she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in My Man Godfrey (1936). One year later, she won the Oscar for the same award in In Old Chicago (1938), in which she turned in a tremendous performance. Alice died of cancer in New York City on October 28, 1939. She was only 46 years old. Her final film that year was Young Mr. Lincoln (1939).Plot: Gibeon 57, next to the curb- Make-Up Department
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Elizabeth Arden was born on 31 December 1878 in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. She was an assistant director, known for Latin Comedy: Una Comedia de Derecha para un Publico de Izquierda (2003). She was married to Prince Michael Evlanoff and Thomas Jenkins Lewis. She died on 18 October 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.Interred in the Graham Family Plot under the name Elizabeth N. Graham.- Brooke Astor was born on 30 March 1902 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. She died on 13 August 2007 in Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA.
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American stage actor and director who made numerous silent film appearances. Blinn was born and raised in San Francisco and attended nearby Stanford University. But his stage career had begun years before, when he made his acting debut at age six. Following his education, he resumed acting, eventually becoming a prominent figure on Broadway. He directed many of the plays he appeared in. In 1914, he made his first film and kept busy on screen and on stage for the remainder of his life. During the volatile strike of stage actors in 1919 that led to the formation of the actors' union, Actors Equity, Blinn was one of a minority of actors who sided with the opposition, the producers. He served as president of the Actors Fidelity League, which unsuccessfully fought the formation of the actors' union. During a vacation at Journey's End, his country home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Blinn was thrown from a horse. He appeared to be recuperating well, but the injury to his arm became infected and led to respiratory failure. He died on 24 June 1928 at 56.- Actor
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Edward Bowes was born on 14 June 1874 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Major Bowes' Amateur Parade No. 1 (1936), Kindling (1915) and Camille (1926). He was married to Margaret Illington. He died on 14 June 1946 in Rumson, New Jersey, USA.- Viola Allen was born 1869 in Alabama and educated in Boston, Toronto and New York. She made her stage debut on July 4th, 1882. Since then she starred in many other stage plays. At the beginning of the 20th century she could also be seen in a lot of Shakespeare revivals. Viola Allen passed away 1948 in New York.
- Andrew Carnegie is a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million (conservatively $66 billion in 2024 dollars, based on percentage of GDP) to charities, foundations, and universities - almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848 at age 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next several years.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others. - Francis Church is known for Princess Ida (2003) and H.M.S. Pinafore (2003).
- Parker Fennelly was born on 22 October 1891 in Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957) and The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966). He was married to Catherine Reynolds. He died on 22 January 1988 in Peekskill, New York, USA.
- Samuel Gompers was born on 27 January 1850 in London, England, UK. He was married to Gertrude Annersly Gleaves Neuscheler and Sophia Julian. He died on 13 December 1924 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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Mark Hellinger made his name as a New York theater critic and as one of the first of the nationally known "Broadway columnists", a craft which his friend Walter Winchell was the most famous practitioner. Born on March 21, 1903, Hellinger was the embodiment of the hard-boiled, hard-living, hard-drinking journalist that became a stereotype of the early talkies. Fittingly, he married Gladys Glad, a beautiful cast member of the Ziegfeld Follies, a series of lavish Broadway revues by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. that glorified the American girl.
Hellinger, like the other great Broadway columnist and raconteur 'Damon Runyon', was a purveyor of stories of New York's demimonde, filled with wise-guy jargon. His stories were different from Runyon's, which relied on mythic archetypes, as they featured realistic depictions of actual people. Many of Hellinger's characters were composites of people he met on the Broadway beat.
The realistic cant of Hellinger's stories, as well as their Broadway background made him a natural for the movies. He contributed to the screenplay of Night Court (1932), and Frank Capra's Broadway Bill (1934) was based on one of his stories. His story "The World Moves On" was adapted for the screen as The Roaring Twenties (1939) directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. It was a crime tale whose characters were all based on actual criminals and their fellow travelers during the wide-open era of Prohibition. The success of the film led Warner Brothers to make Hellinger an associate producer.
Although successful, Hellinger grew increasingly unhappy at Warner Brothers over screen credit (specifically on Bogie's It All Came True (1940)) and assorted personal and professional conflicts with Jack L. Warner. 20th Century Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck hired Hellinger away from Warner Brothers in 1941, making him a real producer. Hellinger returned to Warner Brothers before striking out as an independent at Universal, where he produced three seminal and classics of film noir: The Killers (1946) (based on a short-story by fellow newspaperman Ernest Hemingway most recently glossed in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (2005)), the prison drama Brute Force (1947), and the paradigmatic Big City police drama, The Naked City (1948) , for which Hellinger also voiced the narration.
On December 21, 1947, just as Hellinger was entering into a new independent production company (one of the partners was Humphrey Bogart) he died suddenly at the age of 44. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York. A Broadway Theatre in New York was named for him from 1949 - 1989. The theater has been renamed the Times Square Church.- Leona Helmsley was born on 4 July 1920 in Marbletown, New York, USA. She was married to Harry Helmsey, Joseph Lubin and Leo Panzirer. She died on 20 August 2007 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.- Art Department
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Renowned Viennese architect Joseph Urban was enticed to come to America in 1911 to design the elaborate stage sets in New York City for the Follies revues of impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. Media bigwig William Randolph Hearst then brought him to Hollywood, in the 1920s,where he did art and set decoration for films starring Hearst's mistress Marion Davies. Urban's daughter Gretl helped out by making costumes for the actress as well.Hearst financed the construction of the Ziegfeld Theater, which Urban built. Urban's film work is mostly for the silents, as he died in 1933.Plot: Section 49 "Arcadia"- Walker Whiteside was born on 16 March 1869 in Logansport, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Melting Pot (1915), The Belgian (1918) and Animated Weekly, No. 27 (1912). He was married to Leila Wolston McCord. He died on 17 August 1942 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA.