Hollywood Goes Underground with the
Art Deco Society of Los Angeles’ Annual Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour

Each October, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “digs up the dirt” on Hollywood’s history---and several of its scandals---through a walking tour of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (6000 Santa Monica Boulevard), founded in 1899 and known as the Cemetery of the Immortals. 

Tourgoers visit the gravesites of early Hollywood stars, movie moguls, and pioneers, hearing their fascinating tales from historians and living history interludes.  Guided walking tours depart (rain or shine) from the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum (in the southeast corner of the cemetery) every 20 minutes, from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. 

The cost of the approximately 3-hour tour is $27 per person general admission and $20 for Art Deco Society of Los Angeles members. 

Comfortable walking shoes (tourgoers will be walking on uneven, grassy terrain), water, and sunscreen are recommended; parking and check-in are at the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum. 

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, actress and William Randolph Hearst mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, slain director William Desmond Taylor, and over twenty other legendary Los Angelenos (the lineup differs slightly each year).  Tourgoers will also see some exquisite Art Deco monuments.  

The tour will differ slightly from year to year. The above description lists a few of the icons who are generally covered on the tour.

Tickets go on sale 3-4 weeks prior to the event and they typically sell out.