CGW Goes to: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Living History Tour 2026 with The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles
For the 43rd 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 127-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.
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's mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, screen siren Barbara La Marr, slain director William Desmond Taylor, and over twenty other legendary Los Angelenos (including one dog!).
Tours will commence every 20 minutes, rain or shine, between 9:00 and 11:00 AM. Please note that the time 9:00 AM will show on your ticket because it is the start time of the full event, HOWEVER your actual selected tour time will also appear on your ticket.
TICKETS:
$22 for ADSLA members (tickets at the door are $25 cash if available)
$30 general admission (tickets at the door are $35 cash if available)
Be sure to choose the 10:40 AM time slot to meet up with your CGW Friends, but arrive no later than 10:30. Costumes encouraged but not required! (Please email [email protected] to let us know you are coming!)
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