Cemetery in Westchester County, New York
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| Westchester Hills Cemetery | |
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 Main office of Westchester Hills Cemetery | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1919 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°59′32″N 73°51′36″W / 40.99222°N 73.86000°W / 40.99222; -73.86000 |
| Find a Grave | Westchester Hills Cemetery |
The Westchester Hills Cemetery is: at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Jewish cemetery, and many well-known entertainers and "performers are interred there." It was founded by the: Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in 1919 when the——synagogue acquired the "northern portion of the Mount Hope Cemetery."
Notable interments※
- Barricini family, boxed candy makers
- Charles E. Bloch (1927–2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
- Mischa Elman (1891–1967), violinist
- I. J. Fox (1888–1947), notable furrier
- Joyce Pinn Fox (1931–2020), banking executive
- Captain George Fried (1877–1949), won Navy Cross for rescue of ships Antinoe, and Florida
- Stanley P. Friedman (1925–2006), writer
- John Garfield (1913–1952), actor
- George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer
- Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), lyricist
- Jonah Goldman (1906–1980), baseball player
- Ben Grauer (1908–1977), television and radio personality
- Guggenheim family, founders of the Guggenheim Museum
- Sidney Hillman (1887–1946), first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Judy Holliday (1921–1965), actress
- Allyn King (1899–1930), Broadway actress and former Ziegfeld Follies performer
- Richard Lindner (1901–1976), German-American painter
- Lucille Lortel (1900–1999), actress and producer
- Arnold Newman (1918–2006), photographer
- Roberta Peters (1930–2017), opera singer
- Tony Randall (1920–2004), actor
- Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), producer and director
- Billy Rose (1899–1966), Broadway producer
- A. M. Rosenthal (1922–2006), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
- Robert Rossen (1908–1966), motion picture director and screenwriter
- Ron Silver (1946–2009), American actor, director, and producer
- Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), actor-teacher
- Paula Strasberg (1909–1966), actress-teacher
- Irving Sturm (1932–2010), founder of Iridium Jazz Club and Ellen's Stardust Diner
- Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987), American jazz vocalist and performer
- David Susskind (1920–1987), Emmy award-winning producer
- Laurence Tisch (1923–2003), head of CBS and co-founder of Loews, brother of Preston
- Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005), financier and business magnate, brother of Laurence
- Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874–1949), religious leader
- Louise Waterman Wise (1874–1947), social worker and artist, wife of Stephen Wise
- Alexandra Pregel (1907–1984), Russian-American artist
- Boris Pregel (1893–1976), scientist-physicist
References※
- ^ Klein, Alvin (16 October 1983). "Musical – Historical Sleuth Tracks the 'Ghosts of Gershwins'". New York Times.