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“That’s All Folks!”

Grave Sites – Mel Blanc – Bio

Mel Blanc
Born May 30, 1908 – Died July 10, 1989
American Voice Actor, Comedian

Grave Sites – Mel Blanc – Note

Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry.

Grave Sites – Mel Blanc – Grave

Blanc died on July 10, 1989 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California of heart disease and emphysema.

He was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Blanc’s will stated his desire to have the inscription on his gravestone read, “THAT’S ALL FOLKS.”

Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the “Golden Age of American animation” (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, and hundreds of others.

… I Will Not Be Right Back After This Message …

Grave Sites – Merv Griffin – Bio

Mervyn Edward “Merv” Griffin, Jr.
Born July 6, 1925 – Died August 12, 2007
American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul.

Grave Sites – Merv Griffin – Grave Site

Griffin’s prostate cancer, treated originally in 1996, returned and he was admitted to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where his condition deteriorated, leading to his death on August 12, 2007.

From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show, produced by Westinghouse Broadcasting.

He also created the game shows Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Click, and Merv Griffin’s Crosswords with his own television production companies, Merv Griffin Enterprises and Merv Griffin Entertainment.

During his lifetime, Griffin was considered an entertainment business magnate.

… and away we go …

Grave Sites – Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason
Born February 26, 1916 – Died June 24, 1987
American Comedian, Actor, Musician

Grave Sites – Jackie Gleason – Note

Jackie Gleason is buried in Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery in Miami, Florida.

Despite its size, Jackie Gleason’s tomb is surprisingly anonymous. His name is inscribed on his sarcophagus lid, but you have to walk up into the tomb to see it.

From the outside, the only inscription is the four words that were Gleason’s signature parting line, “And away we go.”

Jackie Gleason was born in Brooklyn, New York.

In one of the many tributes that the world has extolled upon him is a sign that welcomes you to Brooklyn.

… how sweet he was …

… So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past …

Grave Sites – F Scott Fitzgerald – Bio

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born September 24, 1896 – Died December 21, 1940
American Author

Grave Sites – F Scott Fitzgerald – Tomb

The inscription on his tomb, quoted above, is the final line of “The Great Gatsby.”

“And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther …

And one fine morning –

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Grave Sites – F Scott Fitzgerald – Note

… And so … I shall continue, like Gatsby, my boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past …

… And I wish you the same …

 … Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime …

Grave Sites – Dean Martin – Bio

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti)
Born June 7, 1917 – Died December 25, 1995
American Singer, Actor, Comedian, Members of the “Rat Pack”.

Grave Sites – Dean Martin – Gravesite

Dean Martin was diagnosed with lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993, and in early 1995 retired from public life.

He died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas morning 1995, at age 78.

The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor.

Dean Martin has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 6519 Hollywood Boulevard, for movies; one at 1617 Vine, for recordings; and one at 6651 Hollywood Boulevard, for television.