Some of my favorite cemeteries are located in New York’s Westchester County. They are cemeteries I return to again and again. In the July issue of American Cemetery & Cremation magazine, I featured several of them in an article.
Impresario Florenz Ziegfeld is buried in Kensico Cemetery with his second wife, actress Billie Burke, who famously played Glinda the good witch in another classic movie, The Wizard of Oz.
Novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Sidney Aaron “Paddy” Chayefsky is buried in Sharon Gardens. He is known for writing the screenplay of the 1976 critically acclaimed film “Network,” which offers a satirical look at the chaotic realm of network television.
Actress Judy Tyler was known to early television audiences of the Howdy Doody Show as Princess Summerfall Winterspring. In 1957, Tyler was killed in a car accident, along with her husband Greg Lafayette, also an actor. Tyler was cremated, and her bronze urn rests on a shelf above Lafayette’s crypt.
Robert Evans, the quintessential movie producer of the 1970s, may not be a household name, but the iconic films he produced for Paramount Pictures, such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Odd Couple, Urban Cowboy, and The Godfather, are unforgettable. Evans rests in a sunlit corner of an elegant private family room at Ferncliff Cemetery.
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