IF I INDEED FIND THE GRAVE, I'LL TAKE PICTURES TO POST HERE. OOOOOOOH, COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIME.
Along the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interburough Parkway) are no less than 17 separate cemeteries. One of the largest, Cypress Hills, contains one of show biz's biggest names; Mae West (1893-1980). She occupies a crypt in the Cypress Hills Mausoleum, not far from the remains of classic boxer 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett. In another cemetery is buried a classic Hollywood gangster; Edward G Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893-1973). Little Caesar himself will also be remembered for such fantastic films as FLESH AND FANTASY (1943), NIGHTMARE (1956) and his one science fiction venture and final screen appearance, SOYLENT GREEN (1973). The family crypt that he occupies in Beth-El cemetery is not accessible to visitors. Next to Beth-El and bordering Union Field cemetery, where Bert Lahr is, is Machpelah cemetery. Perhaps the most visited and fussed over plot in Machpelah is master illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini (born Erich Weiss, 1874-1926). On the screen he appeared in such thrillers as THE MASTER MYSTERY (serial, 1918), TERROR ISLAND (1920) and THE MAN FROM BEYOND (1921). He was the subject of a George Pal biopic in 1953 and a TV movie in 1976. The gravesite is regularly visited by admirers and magicians' associations. Psychic groups hold seances on or about the day he died, Hallowe'en. The main monument to the family plot reads both 'Houdini' and 'Weiss' and contained a bust of the great prestidigitator. The bust is occasionally missing and recently a few of the graves have been vandalized.
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