Palm Springs' Crypts / Graves of 23 Famous People
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- Jeff checks out a myriad of graves of entertainers and other types of famous people who are buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, a neighboring city of Palm Springs.
The crypts visited will include Guy Madison, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Patsy Garrett, John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas, Buddy Rogers, Gavin MacLeod, Dinah Shore, George Montgomery, singer Jerry Vale, mobster Michael Rizzitello, golfer Ken Venturi, professional women's baseball players Shirley Burkovich and Dottie Kemenshek, actress Ruth Terry, Jane Wyman and ice cream merchant Irvine Robbins.
Across the street at Desert Memorial Park he will visit the graves of Suzanne Somers, Frank Sinatra, Sonny Bono, Betty Hutton, Cameron Mitchell of "High Chaparral" TV series. The visit will conclude with a visit to the grave of Hollywood actor William Powell and actress wife Mousie Powell.
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Cup of coffee.....Sunday morning....History Hunters !!! Another great video Jeff and Sarah !
Morning!
Jeff would you fulfill my request by visiting the grave of John philip sousa please and you are a sweet kind guy on youtube
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Thanks for including Betty Hutton. She was a wonderful energetic entertaining performer
She was great..I wonder why her tombstone has deteriorated so badly?
@@patgalvez4563 it’s the desert sun! It fades the markers!
Thanks for showing Cameron Mitchell's grave. He was a favorite of mine on The High Chaparral.
Sorry never heard of her!
The desert sun is hard on everything. It’s no surprise to me that Frank is buried there. He did live Palm Springs. He was a very generous man. I don’t think many people know how generous he was.
When I saw the thumbnail with Sonny Bono I thought to myself, "I hope Jeff knows Betty Hutton is buried within maybe two hundred feet of Sonny." Both the Hutton sisters, Betty & Marion, were talented actresses and singers, that unfortunately, are mostly forgotten today. Marion was a singer with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Betty sang for Vincent Lopez's Orchestra, and garnered the nickname of, "the Screamer," for her amazing energetic vocal delivery. In her later years Betty Hutton regained some of her popularity on TV, but producers and fans seemed only interested in having her perform songs she popularized in the '40's and '50's, that she couldn't deliver with the physicality she did as a teenager. That was a disservice to everyone. Anyhow, thank you for including her in this video. I wonder how many people drive by on the I-10 without realizing how many dozens of famous people are buried in this little cemetery?
I miss all the old movies and actors/actresses. Thanks for all the memories and all the legwork - much appreciated!
I am glad it bright back some great memories! 😄
You can watch TMC turn off classic movies on TV if you like old movies. I watch it every day.
I haven't watched anything after 2000
I am as amazed as you are that some huge stars have such humble graves, unmarked graves, or no graves at all. I always enjoy your cemetery visitation videos. You are among the best. Thanks, Jeff!
Thank you kindly, Brent! I love the comment!
@@jbenziggy You are very welcome!! 😁
Great video Jeff. I’m sorry you weren’t feeling that well. Your voice sounded fine. I always find the cemetery vlogs very interesting. And it’s a way that I can pay my respects to celebrities who’s work I have enjoyed. I hope you’re feeling better. Looking forward to future content
It’s strange that some famous celebrities have such simple headstones and if you didn’t know who they were you’d think they were just some average John/Jane Doe.
Your videos make me homesick for my home state. History Hunters is part of my Sunday morning routine! Does an episode of the history of the former Naval Base Rough And Ready Island interest you? Would love to see that! Thanks for offering such high quality content!
I remember most of them, especially Cameron Mitchell, Uncle Buck ,on the HIGH CHAPARRAL . thanks JEFF. 😊
Good time of the year to head down to Palm Springs. Living in Las Vegas for the past 67 years, your post reminds me of all the fabulous entertainers that performed here who are no longer with us.
Oh my goodness - blast from the past is this video! I was one of those kids that watched the Wild Bill Hickok TV show every week!
The late Phil Harris voiced that wonderful character in my childhood favorite, Jungle Book. That film was always paramount in my household. Another triumph, Jeff.
my brother used to sing " bear necessities ' song when we were kids .lol
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Glad you found Cameron Mitchell, as Uncle Buck. The High Chaparral my favorite western..... and he is my favorite actor..from that show. He also worked for John Ford, They were Expendable..small role.
I met Phil Harris and his wife Alice in 1994 when he came for a tour at the Henry Ford estate where I worked. Phil Harris already had a slight case of dementia. His wife told me at the time, but he was a very nice man and so was his wife. Sunny Bono's Parents were from Grosse Point, Michigan and her daughter snd granddaughter. She was a student at the University of Michigan Dearborn, where I worked at the Henry Ford estate. I had the privilege of meeting his mother several times along with Sonny's sister and his grandniece, along with his dad, who was a very nice man. His mom was always very nice when I talked to her and his whole family was just sweet people.
Phil Harris was hilarious on the Jack Benny radio program and the "thin" jokes for Frank Sinatra never stopped whenever he made a guest appearance. Radio in the 40's was amazing. Thanks and see you next week!
In 1967 Phil Harris's marriage was on the rocks. He met a girl in Nashville and arranged for her to work at a nearby dentist's office so she would be close to his house in the Thunderbird Country Club. Alice found out about it in 1970 became very jealous and worked hard at a reconciliation. Phil & Alice got back together for the sake of their family but Phil never gave Shirley up.
Wow, so many memories! My Mom knew a lot about actors/actresses, films, and news. She was a telephone operator back in the day and she loved her TV. We watched all the awards shows, every telethon, and she had a well-varied taste when it came to her favorite shows throughout the year: Gunsmoke, Rifleman, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Magnum P.I., High Chaparral, Family, Little House On The Prairie, Lassie, Flipper, St. Elsewhere, Hawaii Five-O, Rockford Files, Lawrence Welk, Sonny & Cher, and don't forget the Sunday Night Walt Disney Movie. Yes, she was quite the cross dresser! She would have loved following you! (LOL maybe she DOES follow you!) Great show today, thanks.
Wow, what a nice stroll down Memory Lane this morning! Thanks, Jeff.
Glad you enjoyed it! I liked how it turned out!
I was amazed seeing Mr Sinatra’s final resting spot. How simple compared to cemeteries in Hollywood or any of the others. I would’ve figured a huge decorative monument or something. Thanks for taking us sir.
I totally agree! Glad you enjoyed this visit to the cemeteries!!!
Also, John Wayne's memorial marker.
Thank you for today's episode. How does the saying go, "That was then. This is now." But I would say, there would be no "now" without" then". So give each its due . Hope you are on the mend Jeff.
Thanks! for the wonderful reminiscences of these notable Americans . . .
Very enjoyable episode as they all are Jeff! I met Cameron Mitchell in Oroville, Ca in the 70’s while they were filming “The Klansman”. I was an extra. I got to sit next to him and he was in full bloody makeup after a fight scene. He was a quiet person. I was a young girl. I got his autograph along with OJ Simpson’s and a couple others I don’t remember. It was a fun 2 days. Thanks for your channel-Nina
Another great video thank you Jeff, I love to see stars buried with us common folks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the tour of the graves. Life is really short. Thanks for the history lesson.
Glad you enjoyed it! When you see folks that you saw growing up on TV departed now 20 and 30 years, you do realize how short life is.
It is really sobering to think that no matter how famous you might have been, or how rich you were, we all end up in the same situation when we tip over for good! Great job Jeff! Very educational and entertaining!
It is sobering to think about. In this sense, we are all equal.
Thanks for taking us places we’ll probably never see. I enjoy the graveyards and the stories they hold. Well done Jeff.
Glad you enjoyed! It was fun going there and putting this all together! Lots of time spent on this one!
Wow. Really enjoyed this one. Very nostalgic. Reminded me when I was a kid watching some of these people perform on TV while being with my parents in Tucson, Arizona. I'm 76 now. Thanks for the memories.
You are very welcome! I do appreciate you stopping by! Bless you!
Thanks Jeff for taking me back to see old friends!. Did a great job!
You bet! Thank you for being there for us … watching and commenting!
Wow Nice Video! I liked All these people from little Betty Hutton to John Phillips! That sure is a beautiful place. ✌️
I once took a paid tour of Palm Springs and, If I’m not mistaken, George Montgomery owned a hardware store in Palm Springs and they said he would often deliver orders himself. The building is still there, but it’s an office building now. Great video of all these starts that I had forgotten about until seeing this. Keep up the good work.
Thnx Jeff and Sarah for my weekly HH "fix"!! Love these treks down memory lane! Cheers! ~Chris
Our pleasure!
Another enjoyable episode Jeff! I LOVED,LOVED, LOVED the Frank Sinatra of the 60's and 70's. Such an amazing talent.
Thanks for taking us along! I cannot walk or travel anymore and on a fixed income,so I will not be able to make the rips you do/Thanks again!
WOW! Thoroughly enjoyed! Lots and lots of stars were seen today. I appreciate those stars that, although they are so very well-known by thousands, and could easily justify having a great memorial that stands out, choose to be laid to rest with the everyday person who, more than likely were fans. Afterall, without the fans, they would never have been a STAR!
Even though people may achieve great fame when they die everyone is the same. We bring nothing into the world and take nothing out.
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Well done, Jeff. I wouldn't have known you were battling with that lovely voice of yours. You can come and read the UK telephone book to me any time. Regarding Sinatra and "stars" in general: Death is a great leveller, as you will know. By and large, it is royalty who get to be with their own when they die, and sometimes infants get buried with infants in those cemeteries that have such a dedicated area.
I loved the Thin Man films, especially sweet Astor, the dog. It's sad that black and white films are so rarely shown these days. Films like Rebecca, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Shop Around the Corner, Wuthering Heights and many other fabulous black and white films, which included great actors of their day, with equally good performances, are lost to the generations today. Just yours and mine left, Jeff. Anyway, I loved The Thin Man series and never missed one.
Thank you for taking the time and doing the legwork on our behalf, Jeff! I feel quite worn out! 😂
Looking froward, here in the UK to your next one! 😊
Wow, I should probably pin your comment to the top. Thank you so much for your compliments about my voice and my work. I don’t think there’s anything special about my voice, but a lot of folks have mentioned they like it. I guess none of us like our own voices, or at least hearing them.
So happy to hear that. I have a big fan over in the UK. As far as the old movies, some of them are definitely treasures. I think a lot of folks just assume that if it’s black-and-white, then it’s safe boring or bad movie. When I see what Hollywood is producing With the over-the-top computer generated graphics and unbelievable scenes of destruction I am immediately turned off. Give me a good drama or a slow movie with a good plot any day.
I hope you continue to love our program! Blessings to you !
You never cease to amaze me, Jeff. You are a man with a lot of intestinal fortitude. The amount of effort you put into these great videos is truly appreciated and as always you manage to keep my attention right up to the end. Even though you had trouble with your voice you still keep on going. Hope you are feeling alright and get your voice back soon. Thanks again! 👍
Wow, thank you! I certainly try to make my videos the best I can given my time constraints. They certainly take longer than I would like but I do want quality over quantity. That puts me at a disadvantage over other TH-camrs.
I am certainly feeling better than the weekend Sarah and I were in Palm Springs. I appreciate your good wishes for me!
Hello Jeff, Thanks for sharing and remembering and showing us the grave sites of these great actors. Hope your day was great. Happy Sunday!
Thanks, you too! You were always good about leaving a comment Chuck. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this. I like this. Cameron Mitchell is a favorite. I'm a fan of High Chaparral.
We just moved from Indio to the South. I visited all the places you covered today. Now I'm homesick!
How far south did you move? Too far to drive?
Kentucky. Yes, too far to drive!!@@jbenziggy
I've been a big fan of your channel for 3 yrs now and I enjoy every vlog you have done.. Don't ever quit.. Thanks to you and your wife for showing and teaching us about history..You guys are Awesome!!!!..Stay Safe!! 🥰
Thank you so much 😊 that warms our hearts to hear how you like what we’re doing! Thanks for encouraging us! Blessings to you!
Great episode! I love how you guys dig up details so we never forget the important things!
Very interesting tour! I purchased the last spot at Forest Lawn in Cathedral City for my late husband when he passed in 20221, He requested to be there. I think he liked the idea of being in the company of so many famous people,. His spot is at the top of a tower, with a beautiful view of the desert and mountains. It is a lovely resting spot,
Love your channel. Paul in Northern Ireland
Wonderful! Thank you so much for being a fan in Ireland! Never been there but would love to one day!
Love this !! I actually visited desert memorial park but I hadn’t been to forest lawn. I will have to go back !! I love to visit graves of the stars
Thank you, Kelly! I appreciate you engaging with this video! Hopefully you can check it out next time you are there!
I definetly will !! I am such a movie star fanatic and old movie lover !!! I absolutely loved this video@@jbenziggy
Thank you, really enjoyed this one. My Mom is buried in Orange County. Same cemetery as Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison's girlfriend.
Thank you so much Jeff! There were so many actors graves that you were able to visit and share extra information about. I appreciate everything that you do!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you, Brent. It was a fun one to edit and shoot!
A very nice presentation, very personal and warm.
Thank you kindly! I aim to be as authentic and respectable in my presentations. Glad that you enjoyed this one.
I remember these actors I love them all they were good actors. I hope you feel better
I do feel better. Thanks. This was shot about two weeks ago.
Enjoyed this so much, especially the way you inserted videos of the stars to help remember them for what they were known for . . . thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well done, Jeff. Thank you so much. I always enjoy your cemetery trips. It's amazing all the celebrities you come across when you walk through the cemetery. Thanks again, Jeff and I hope you feel better. Take care my friend. I very much enjoy your weekly videos. You do such a wonderful job on them. See ya next Sunday.
Wonderful tribute to so many great actors/performers.
Dinah Shore was a particular favourite of ours.
Many kind thanks.
💋Dinah Shore was wonderful.
Good morning , and as ALWAYS, Thank You. Always Excellent, and Informative videos.
Interesting stuff Jeff. We just passed through that area on our road trip to Tombstone and Boot Hill. Coincidentally I also was sick 😷. It takes a lot of planning and research to find all these graves as you could walk right past and not notice the name.
Guitar player Dick Dale was a friend for many years and is interned at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I have yet to get down to visit.
Back around 1998 the professional women baseball players had a reunion in Palm Springs at the hotel I was staying at. Was pretty cool.
Good Morning Jeff I hope you feel better soon.
Thank you. I appreciate the good wishes!
Gavin's best roll was in the movie "Kellys Heros". Thanks for the trip.
Oddball: Stop with those negative waves Moriarty!
Thank you for getting out there and making good memories of the lives of those people who entertained us all. It’s nice seeing what year they passed away and hearing what happened to them. Sometimes it’s hard to hear what they went through and died from cancer or suffering from mental illnesses that took their own lives. I enjoy seeing them in their prime and seeing their stories. Some of them lived a long time. Thanks again.
I love these cemetery tours!
its a takes a real love for what you do to be able to go into these cemeteries and not come across as disrespecting others loved ones. we subscribers can feel the respect you have for those you mention. and there families.
Thank you! I wouldn’t be any other way than respectful. Thank you for noticing!
Another great episode as usual Jeff. Thanks for all the content that you produce weekly for all of us who are your fans. Get well soon, my friend.
Thank you very much!
Great tour. Shout out from Brisbane, Australia.
Thanks for sharing! Love to visit your country some day!
Thanks for the tour I enjoyed it.
It's always great to see a new video uploaded. Greetings from a cold Glasgow
Hello there! It’s cold here in Central California too!
Good morning from Lodi, Cal.
Hello there! Been there many times and did a number of shows there!
Good morning, from Tennessee!
Good morning! Hope you enjoy the video!
Very humble grave markers for such revered performers.
Thanks so much for the tour. You found some truly great resting places!
You bet! Thanks for watching!
This was amazing. The Memorial Parks are beautiful and the stars you found were ones that I have often admired. I like that Forest Lawn in Palm Springs allows you to see the star's graves and crypts. Thank you so much, this was a nice afternoon for me.
Awesome! Thank you!!!
Great job Jeff as always
Thanks again!
Thanks for doing the job for us, I appreciated it!
Our pleasure! Happy to hear that you like this video.
Thank you Jeff and Sarah for another wonderful video! Many people I didn’t know about. Always learning new history from you! I am under the weather too! Hope you are feeling better!
I am feeling much better! Thanks!
I've seen a lot of your videos and I am shocked at how many famous people you spoke to, received autographs, had conversations with and so on. What you did then compared to nowadays are scarce and extremely rare. Memories you'll never forget.
Unfortunately I don’t see hardly any more celebrities these days. I wish that wasn’t the case!
Thanks Jeff, I lived in LaQuinta 20 minutes away from there, I only knew of a few celebrities buried there in Cathedral City. Back in the 1980's my brother & cousins & friends & my self worked hotels & occasionally would see a lot of celebs. Those were some good memories.👍😀🇺🇸
Awesome! Who are some of the famous that you saw?
@@jbenziggy Sidney Pollock the Director, Arnold Palmer in my later years. It's been so long but a lady who lived in Marrakesh country club who did stand in dancing for major women stars of the 30's & 40's.
Lumpy from Leave it to Beaver, and the gentleman who played Mr. Dafossio on Laverne & Shirley.
But you sure out do me Jeff with photos, autographs & interviews.
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Wonderful video, Jeff! Thanks so much for showing us all these famous people. Great job!
Thank you! I appreciate the comment!
Bought back alot of memories I watched most of the shows❤❤
Hi ... very interesting vlog of the oldie but goodie actors ....loved it...I remember some faces but not the names ,..then I saw the name and ..oh yeah that's who they are...thanks for vlogging them all. Take care. Deborah 🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed this look back, Deborah! It's fun to see the old stars but also confounds me in how fast time passes and how short life is!
Loved the video...very informative and put together well....I thoroughly enjoyed it...thank you...
Another great video, Jeff. Get well soon!
Thanks, will do! A tiny bit of it is lingering, but I shot this two weeks ago. Whatever I had really held on tight for a while. I appreciate your good wishes.
This was a great video! I really enjoyed all your research!! Thanks so much! 😊
That was a lovely journey back in the day, meeting another history researcher, using own experiences and research. Thank you for all the snippets as alot of actors I didn't know by name, but a I sure recognized them from their pictures.
So nice of you! Thanks, Wendy!
Sinatra was one of the best singers imo. I grew up listening to him because he was a fav of my mom. I loved the music and continued to be a fan as an adult til the day he died. ❤
As always, amazing job. Thank you!
Thank you too!
Voice or no voice, as always you did a great job😊
Thank you so much 😃
God bless you brother Jeff I text you about 4 years ago told you how amazing your videos were I couldn't remember the website so I finally found as a poor man I can only travel through the video and I love history so thank you very much for the videos and I hope your family and you are doing well God bless you brother 💯
Sorry That I missed your video live jeff. I enjoyed this visit. Thankyou.
Fantastic tour! Thank you so much.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed!
Good morning from Michigan
Good morning!! I bet you’re cold up there!
Thank you for sharing information about the people you visited. They all deserve to be remembered.
Thank you for another excellent visit Jeff. When visiting the burial sites of famous people I'm always reminded that in the end most will have a simple marker. Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, OH, is the final resting place of John D. Rockefeller, at one time the richest man in the world. Yet he has a simple marker in the family plot. Also buried at Lake View are President James Garfield, Alan Freed, and Eliot Ness, to name a few.
I would love to visit that cemetery. Rockefeller could have built a castle for his grave but I read that he was really frugal with his millions!
Feel better soon! Thank you for your hard work and dedication!
Thank you, I will!!!
As always - A+ always enjoyable. Thanks again.
Another great video Jeff ! You put so much work and effort into making your video's so interesting and fun to watch ! Thank you !!
I appreciate that! Thanks, Donna! Blessings!
Thank you for another wonderful history lesson. I learned quite a bit and was introduced to people I did not know…fascinating.
Enjoyed thanks!!
Always appreciate the research you put into your videos.
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Thank you for the tour❤
You’re welcome 😊
thanks Jeff for another awesome video. the research you put into this is incredible.
My pleasure!
Thank you Jeff always enjoy your videos and commentary. I have learn alot more than I did in school about history from guys like you and al the other grave yard enthusiasts.
That's awesome! I appreciate that so much!
The video taping is outstanding. I just admire the format you use to present the topic, facts and history. This was an exceptional episode. Did these folks live in Palm Springs or just choose to be interred/buried there? I remember my parents had a Phil Harris album and there was a piece called The Deck of Cards about a soldier that used a deck of playing cards as his prayer book. The soldier is chastised until he explains how the cards represent biblical passages or meanings to him. By the end of the piece, i was always in tears. Thank you for bringing all these folks back to us, even for a moment. Outstanding.
I do believe most of these folks lived there! Sarah and I thought it might be a good place to retire to except for the furnace heat in the summer! Right now it’s nice there!
Another great episode! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Another great video. Thanks for the tour...
Our pleasure! Thank you!
I really enjoyed this one Thank you Jeff and Sarah
Our pleasure! I was hoping that my viewers would appreciate this one because I really enjoy watching the final product. Lol it took us seven hours to drive down there from our house but we also did some other things there while we were visiting. Cemetery visits probably took about two hours so there’s some time put into it and I really appreciate you enjoying the fruits of my labor.
Another great video Jeff and Sarah ! Thank you!
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching … and the comment!
Your voice is perfect! So soothing! Excellent vlog! Thank u! ❤️
So nice of you! Thank you so much!