For the 41st year, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “digs up the dirt” on Hollywood history - including a few scandals - via a living history walking tour of the 125-year-old Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard. Visit the gravesites of early Hollywood stars, movie moguls, and the pioneers who shaped Los Angeles, to hear fascinating tales about their lives (both their accomplishments and misdeeds) from historians and living history performances.
Tours will commence every 20 minutes, rain or shine, between 9:00 and 11:00 AM.
Featured on the tour are those who mapped Hollywood---including Col. Griffith J. Griffith and Hollywood founder Harvey Wilcox---and those who put Hollywood on the map: silent film swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks, heartthrob Rudolph Valentino, the first African American Oscar Winner Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, GONE WITH THE WIND), actress and William Randolph Hearst mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, screen siren Barbara La Marr, slain director William Desmond Taylor, and over twenty other legendary Los Angelenos.
This year we will be selling bags of Barbara LaMarr coffee at the tour, along with blends designed to reflect the personalities of several other silent film contemporaries of LaMarr! Scroll down for more information about the woman-owned Hollywood Blends brand.
TICKETS:
$20 for ADSLA members (tickets at the door are $25 cash if available)
$30 general admission (tickets at the door are $35 cash if available)
All online tickets are subject to processing fees. Please note that when you click “Buy Tickets” on the ticket sales page, it pops up with five different departure times even though the main time displayed says 12:00 PM. Choose your time.
Ticket holders will check in off a list at the door. Ticket sales will end on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Tickets will be available at the door, CASH ONLY. Exact change will be applauded!
No Refunds. Tickets can be sold or gifted to a friend. Email us with the friends name or transfer the ticket via your Agile account.
ABOUT HOLLYWOOD BLENDS
Good things are brewing at this year’s cemetery tour. We will be selling bags of coffee to raise funds for ADSLA, as well as other silent film related charities. Founder Dominique herself will join us to make the sales! Breakfast At Dominique's is a woman-owned and operated boutique coffee company working to keep the legacies of our past alive through high quality coffee. A special interest is placed on the silent era of film where carefully crafted homages to stars such as Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, Boris Karloff, Joan Crawford, and Barbara La Marr become highlights of the Breakfast At Dominique's lineup. Many coffees support causes and Foundations that each icon dedicated thought and care to in their own lives such as Hounds in Pounds dog rescue, the Mary Pickford Foundation, and the National Film Preservation Foundation.
This information is subject to change, so watch this space:
Guided walking tours will depart (rain or shine) from the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum (follow the main road, Dr. Stanley & Regina Aizin Drive, through the front gate around to the southeast corner of the cemetery) every 20 minutes, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Tours are approximately 3-hours.
Comfortable walking shoes (tour goers will be walking on uneven, grassy terrain), water, hats and sunscreen are recommended.
Parking and check-in are at the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum. Parking is free.
Health and Safety Information: Though masks are optional at this time, that may change in accordance with fluctuating city and county health guidelines. The tour is mostly outdoors, but it culminates in the cemetery’s Cathedral Mausoleum.
We bring in a very posh portable restroom just for this tour. It sits at the edge of the parking lot. Please use it! It is there for you and did we mention that it is very posh?
FAQ
The tour is mostly outdoors, but it culminates in the cemetery’s Cathedral Mausoleum. Comfortable walking shoes (tour goers will be walking on uneven, grassy terrain), water, hats and sunscreen are recommended.
You may take photos on the tour. ADSLA retains rights to the content of the tour and strictly prohibits recording audio or video of the tour content. This includes docents speaking or performing. All photos and video taken are for private use only. Any other use must be cleared with Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Tourgoers are asked to please take care not to go near any funeral services that may be in progress; allow mourners their space, speak quietly, and refrain from photographing mourners. Kindly avoid touching or standing on headstones or monuments, as doing so might cause damage. Restrooms are located in the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum.
We are required to bring in a deluxe portable restroom, so please use it! It will be in the same parking lot where you arrive and check-in.
We generally film and photograph our tours. If you do not wish to be filmed, just let the videographer know.
