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Westchester Hills Cemetery, New York City, USA

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Interments:
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Address:
410 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502, USA
Political territory:
Ardsley
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The Westchester Hills Cemetery, approximately 20 miles north of New York City, was established at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. It welcomes the burial of Christians and Jews, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It contains the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue cemetery.

Notable interments

  • Barricini family, boxed candy makers
  • Charles E. Bloch (1927-2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
  • Ilka Chase (1900-1978), actress and novelist
  • Mischa Elman (1891-1967), violinist
  • I. J. Fox, furrier
  • Stanley P. Friedman, writer
  • John Garfield (1913-1952), actor
  • George Gershwin (1898-1937), composer
  • Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), lyricist
  • 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
  • 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 New York City landmarks 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
  • Preston Robert Tisch (1926-2005), financier and business magnate
  • Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-1949), religious leader

Sources: wikipedia.org, wikimapia.org

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