This is the grave of Spencer Tracy. Born in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tracy grew up fairly well off there. His mom came from money and his dad had a successful trucking business. But Tracy was a handful as a child, hated school, and his...
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Brahim Haggiag (center, with arm outstretched) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Photo courtesy of British Film Institute/Rialto Pictures..
This is the grave of James Wong Howe. Born in Taishan, Canton Province, China in 1899, Wong Tung Jim grew up mostly in the United States. Shortly after his birth,.
This is the grave of Dom DeLuise. Born in 1933 in New York City, Dominick DeLuise grew up in an Italian-American household, which you all already knew, I mean his name is Dom DeLuise. He was a deeply observant Catholic his whole life. He was...
This is the grave of Burt Reynolds. Born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, Reynolds grew up all over the place because his father was in the Army. Eventually, his father.
This is the grave of Walter Matthau. Born in 1920, Walter Matthow (don't know why you'd change your name a bit from that), grew up in the Jewish immigrant community.
This is the grave of Bruno Frank. Born in 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany, Frank grew up there in a prominent family. Both his father and grandfather were bankers, but this was not to be Frank's interest. He went to prep school in Stuttgart, then went...
This is the grave of Billy Wilder. Born in 1906 in what is today Sucha, Poland, close to the modern border with Slovakia, Samuel Wilder grew up in a Jewish.
This is the grave of Mary Howard. Born in Independence, Kansas in 1913, Howard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was interested in dance as a little girl, which of.
This is the grave of Cecil B. DeMille. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 1881, at his parents' vacation home, DeMille grew up in New York City. His parents were well-off literary people. His father wrote plays with David Belasco and Cecil would watch them rehearse,...
This is the grave of Tod Browning. Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1880, Charles Browning grew up middle class. His father was a respectable construction guy and a prominent local.
This is the grave of William Bendix. Born in Manhattan in 1906, Bendix grew up in a well off German immigrant family. Among his family members was his Uncle Max,.