Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Sprawling historic cemetery and cultural venue with celebrity crypts, a grand mausoleum, and outdoor film screenings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hollywood Forever Cemetery opens with a sick child named Ditra Flame, a hospital visitor who brings her a red rose, and a promise he asks her to keep if he dies first. You'll hear how that visitor turned out to be Rudolph Valentino, the biggest star of his day, and how a stranger dressed head to toe in black began appearing at his crypt every year afterward, laying a single rose before vanishing. It traces the decades reporters spent trying to learn who she was.
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