They OPENED the Fairbanks Crypt - INSIDE Photos!

Dearly Departed Tours with Scott Michaels

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The crypt of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sr. was OPENED in 1998 to entomb Jr. at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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@williamharley9433 6 месяцев назад

This is an underground crypt with space for 2 caskets. The first burial goes down and then a steel reinforced concrete slab slides into place which acts as the floor for the second casket. As far as the inability of the flood waters to enter the crypt, there are 2 reasons. Firstly, the vault door is sealed with a non porous piece of fiberglass and put in place with a strong epoxy. Secondly, the crypt is raised above ground level. Also. My guess is they put in a French drain before burying the vault. This is my opinion as a retired funeral director.

@ThomNorris 6 дней назад

I completely agree with this assessment. In fact, it looks like there is a French drain in the bottom of the crypt. The casket could also make a big difference if it was a National Seamless copper deposit or similar.

@gennarojg3 4 месяца назад

Depends on the Casket. If it's a double hermetically sealed 48ozs bronze sealer the body can last forever. I've moved and reburied bodies dead 65 to 91 years dead and every one in a bronze or copper sealed casket are usually completely intact. Dr. Gennaro Giammarino, III, M.E.

@JSB1882 Год назад

I met Mr. Fairbanks once and he really was a thoughtful & kind man. He was in Minneapolis for a lecture and was around 80 at the time. After the lecture I approached the stage with his memoir to get an autograph. He wasn't sure if he could sign the book as it might conflict with his contract (I guess), but he told me to wait, and he'd check. The short of it is he came back three times apologizing and asked me to be patient. There were now Shriners all over the stage wanting their swords autographed, and I'm thinking he could have just blown me off. On his third attempt I asked if I could write through the publisher. He told me, "That would be grand, and I look forward to hearing from you." I did it and he sent me a 4x5" photo of him autographed to me. The part I liked best was he backed the photo with a piece of really poorly cut cardboard in an envelope that was typed with his address in New York. All I could picture was this charming old man one day sitting at his desk trying to cut through cardboard and using a typewriter. lol

@latinouruguayo1 Год назад

Wow, thank you for sharing your experiences with him, he sounds so genuine, respectful and sweet.

@cheleshows Год назад

"a conflict with (his) contract?" honestly that is super ridiculous. I am sorry you were told that. Celebrities' have signed/continue to sign all kinds of "things". It is entirely possible he (for whatever reason) did not want to sign the memoir (and that's absolutely his right). It is very sweet that he sent you an autographed photo and cut cardboard to protect it from being folded.

@libertyordeaf 11 месяцев назад

@@cheleshows The story is quite plausible. Publishers often seek to manage and control PR by contracting authors to attend specific book launches and signings and do only approved media. Also, I doubt someone as successful as Fairbanks would have any difficulty refusing such a request - he would just say "No" rather than prevaricating.

@tiprat5051 11 месяцев назад

@@cheleshowsno that is not ridiculous at all

@chocloditelensman 11 месяцев назад

Cool story.

@ccas614 3 месяца назад

When placing a casket in a mausoleum it’s called entombment. When placing ashes in a niche it’s called inurnment. When placing a casket in the ground for burial it’s called interment. I work in the funeral industry & absolutely love your videos!!

@JulianoDorazzo 2 месяца назад

Hello friend, I am from Brazil and a I have a curiosity about a thing in your coutry. What's happen with the poor people dead?? Are they exhumed after a time, for to give more space to other poor people bodies? Thank you.

@debcarpenter8519 2 месяца назад

@JulianoDorazzo I have heard of that in South American countries. It's usually for people in the same family.

@janet20257 2 месяца назад

Wrong, the word is interment.

@janet20257 2 месяца назад

@@JulianoDorazzoNo, the USA Does NOT do that. We have direct cremation, the least expensive method. ❤

@maureenproietta2065 Месяц назад

No, in the US you own the plot for all time. We do not remove the remains and resell, as happens in Europe and elsewhere. There is a lot of "wasted" real estate in cemeteries in the US.

@michaelslipman8853 11 месяцев назад

i was a London Cab driver and i picked up Douglas Fairbanks Jr and for about 20 minutes or so and we had a long conversation what a nice man

@ColumbiaQT2001 11 месяцев назад

Anton Yelchin… his death always made me really sad. He did soo well for himself. He was his parent’s only child and to lose him the way they did was very sad. Soo young and talented. 🤦🏽‍♀️😟😣

@4maxine1 11 месяцев назад

How respectful you are to leave Anton's mom alone. Each time I've been there I have taken a detour so as not to disturb his parents. How they grieve for their son so deeply that they are at the cemetery daily just hurts my heart. Thank you for sharing this great video with us, you are the best!

@therealsophiemary 11 месяцев назад

Those poor people. I heard they are living in his house?

@lisasharf1442 11 месяцев назад

@@therealsophiemaryI heard tha as well.

@cherylcampbell7495 11 месяцев назад

My deceased father came to me in a dream. He told me that I needed to let him go. He’s been deceased sense 1959. The parents need to let go so the person can leave and be with our Heavenly Father. 🙏🙏

@LP-jn4tw 11 месяцев назад

@@cherylcampbell7495 The parents need to do what THEY want to do. Not everyone believes in fairy tales about talking snakes and spontaneously-dividing seas.

@brianboisguilbert6985 11 месяцев назад

@@LP-jn4twYour inability to fathom anything beyond the end of your nose is no reflection on the truth you can’t see.

@user-lo4il5rj3w 11 месяцев назад

Some cemetery workers when we visited in 2015 told us that Mr. Fairbanks did look exceptional but the smell was just atrocious.😢 RIP!

@TitanicTubi 11 месяцев назад

Wow!!!

@CiaraJackson-rb5fk 3 месяца назад

I’m sure there was a horrific smell. They can do amazing things to preserve a body but it’s still dead flesh / organs now mixed w/the chemicals to preserve it.

@hollywoodharriet13 11 месяцев назад

How interesting. Used to live just down on Bronson and spent many an hour in that cemetery - mostly between 1978 thru 1998. A friend and I used to sit on that bench in back of the Fairbanks sarcophagus. Frequently attended the Valentino birthday tributes as well. Such fun. Thanks for this. Enjoyed it.

@annesantos5104 Год назад

Such an fascinating story and interesting history of the two Fairbanks final resting place. Thank you, Scott. Your videos never disappoint and I always learn something new!

@kristencarlbon4561 Год назад

I absolutely love that cemetery. I could see a two hour video of that and never get tired of watching it.

@Kimonster 5 дней назад

Back when I lived in SoCal, I used to make pilgrimage to the cemetery to visit a few of the graves. The cemetery when it was neglected was tragic and I’m grateful the new owners have brought it back up to standard.

@marypaquette8705 11 месяцев назад

My Grandmother was a victorian lady,and we pic nicked in the graveyard, as a child, never thought anything about it was wrong, it's what people did.

@benjaminperez6620 11 месяцев назад

My late sister and I visited here. There were a pair of nesting swans near the Fairbanks monument. They had signs warning visitors that they would be attacked.

@davenz000 11 месяцев назад

Knowing more about the abandoned cemetery under Paramount would be interesting.

@Patrick3183 11 месяцев назад

What?!

@yesibot.2051 11 месяцев назад

I need to know more 🤔

@richardweiler6931 11 месяцев назад

@@yesibot.2051narrator says that it's 'crazy haunted.' So you don't want to know too much.

@KRAFTWERK2K6 10 месяцев назад

"YOU MOVED THE TOMB STONES.... BUT YOU LEFT THE BODIES!! WHYYY??!! WHYYY??!!" No wonder this place is cursed like crazy.

@yesibot.2051 10 месяцев назад

@@richardweiler6931 I’ll have to search if someone has actually gone ghost hunting in that spot 👻

@supermama4748 Год назад

Dirk Shafer was found dead in a vehicle near his home in West Hollywood, California on March 5, 2015. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office determined Shafer's death was the result of "methamphetamine and cocaine toxicity", with hypertensive cardiovascular disease possibly being a contributing factor.

@CapitanFantasma1776 Год назад

Wow! When I visited back in the 90's the grave site was totally unkept. The pond was overgrown with lilly pads and frogs! Thanks!

@ms.c3 11 месяцев назад

It’s my first time watching you. Kudos to the man who bought and gave back life to this cemetery. And I have to say pleasant voice you have. (with due respect). Thank you.

@johndeeregreen4592 9 месяцев назад

I have a deep voice and I am a vocal coach... his deep, articulate voice was the first thing I noticed... the absolute perfect narrator's voice.

@helencheadle5285 6 месяцев назад

I must say you have a lovely voice for narratives like this. I’m quite shocked to learn tge film studio bought half the cemetery but DIDNT RELOCATE THEIR BODIES!!! that’s deplorable!

@shellyraymond4337 11 месяцев назад

Father and son really looked alike! Today I rewatched the Ghost Adventures episode which you were in when they investigated the Silent Movie Theater in LA. The psychic drew a picture of the ghost she had seen there and it was Fairbanks! A great episode! I love it when you come on the show to give the Crew info on the sites they investigate!

@pain_weaver 8 месяцев назад

Psychics are a sham.

@DarProbus Год назад

I always get SOOOOOO excited when I see a Dearly Departed video posted!!! Thank you Scott & Troy❤

@stevesutherland6232 Год назад

Me too…!!

@user-ne3yw2cu6c 2 месяца назад

The Reflecting Pool and Design of Fairbanks grave is truly one of the best I have ever seen... Very Majestic and Royal.

@francism.4525 Год назад

Both were such great actors. Especially their swashbuckling films.

@cyranodebeargerac 11 месяцев назад

I have my own favorite father and son story about the Fairbanks’s. When Junior was offered the role of suave villain Rupert of Hentzau in The Prisoner of Zenda, he hesitated about accepting it. So he asked his dad for advice. Dad read the script and is supposed to have told him, “Are you kidding? This part is actor-proof. Lassie could play it.” Dad was right. In that role Junior gave the performance of his career.

@verak66 11 месяцев назад

It is great. Have heard it before. Terrific and extremely underrated actor. In fact one of my favorites.

@lisaa8795 14 дней назад

I've always loved that film, mostly because of Fairbanks' performance.

@cyranodebeargerac 14 дней назад

@@lisaa8795 Fairbanks would make movie , stage and TV appearances for about 50 years afterwards, but he never again exuded the same sinister, decadent charm he displayed in that film.

@sandeesparkles9682 Год назад

An absolute favorite of mine to go to every time I come to Hollywood. I'm fascinated by this and by your knowledge. Enjoyed your Route 66 trip with Jordan, and am going to become a Patron of yours.... I can't seem to get enough of all the fun and interesting things you do.

@Mszahnclass95 Год назад

Scott i think you deserve millions of subscribers ., have so much knowledge of Hollywood history and all the facts . thank you for sharing this video 📸📸 much appreciated Scott

@valmor1073 Год назад

Love the vibe at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery.I think it says Goodnight Sweet Prince also on Tyrone Power’s grave.Went also to see Rudy Valentino’s crypt and stood there with goose bumps the thinking back on his history.

@johnnyday4227 11 месяцев назад

Im from the uk and worked as a butcher in londons fulham road near chelsea whilst serving in the shop one day i looked up and there was mr fairbanks buying steak just an ordinary customer no airs and graces a lovely polite man this was around 1971 .

@darinandersen104 Год назад

Thank you Scott, another fascinating episode told by the best!

@leesashriber5097 11 месяцев назад

What a fascinating background to the cemetery. I'm glad someone took the cemetery and made it as beautiful as it is. Fabulous actors. Thank you Scott. 🕊️❤️🙏

@judysoltow4474 11 месяцев назад

You are truly appreciated Scott. Thank you

@WhispersFromTheDark Год назад

Thanks for taking us along.

@aaronb7871 Год назад

Thank you Scott & Troy! Always great stories.

@rfg1275 Год назад

Great job, Scott! I have been following you since 2006!

@MrThunders66 Год назад

Absolutely awesome vlog Scott thank you that place is absolutely beautiful

@fanniek1694 11 месяцев назад

This is the best channel on RU-vid

@invisableamerican1956 11 месяцев назад

Thanks. As a shut in you’ve just taken me to feel ,pay homage to all those there. Thanks for the walks you’ve taken me on over a decade.

@tracyanne64 11 месяцев назад

Wow, thank you for sharing this! That is so cool about showing the movies although it's changed. I'm so glad that someone bought and returned the Cemetery back to good condition.

@FlizzyFluff 11 месяцев назад

What a Beautiful place to Rest! I wish I’d been there for the free showings! Thank You Again So Much!

@Emjay_____71 8 месяцев назад

Hi Scott !! Thanks for everything you do, your work makes the departed a memory for a new generation 🙏🌹

@deesnider6304 11 месяцев назад

Beautiful memorial site. I love how they have the water in place

@yolandagonzalez1684 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Scott. I'm glad that Douglas Jr. Is buried with his Dad. It's a beautiful place to be interred in.

@johndunkle740 11 месяцев назад

There is a vent in the left side at the top of their tomb. People use to slip coins in it and other things I imagine, so they had it cemented closed. I always wondered how the caskets were place and now, thanks to you, I know. You did a great investigative job!

@nancysantamarialatica1141 Год назад

Thanks for the walk .

@ruthcisneros9471 11 месяцев назад

Great informative video as always! I do remember when this place was in such disrepair years ago most people just drove by not knowing it's great Hollywood history. I being one of them...

@maryminott2593 11 месяцев назад

Another great video as usual. Thanks Scott!

@zipshed 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Scott, this was great!

@bullitts Год назад

Great video Scott! Always appreciate you!!!

@SPOOKIESPOOKSANGELSEXPLOREWITH 11 месяцев назад

❤❤❤THANK YOU FOR THE TOUR .....

@lasuvidaboy 11 месяцев назад

I remember when the front facing portion of the cemetery along Santa Monica Blvd was was lined with huge Canary Island palms and a manicured lawn. Sadly, that entire front footage was sold off and retail businesses such as auto repair shops were built on the former front lawn of the cemetery.

@nosajdabeno Год назад

How has that not been made a movie yet? “You think a house built on a graveyard is haunted? Well, guess what happens when a movie studio builds on a graveyard! In theaters this Christmas!”

@bonniefeldman9444 11 месяцев назад

In Ray Bradbury book the Skeleton Crew this is the setting. The cemetery over the wall from the movie studio

@DanW-nk7sn 4 месяца назад

Poltergeist, A development was built over a grave yard.

@lisad476 Год назад

You have the best stuff!!!! Thanks Sir

@lizzieb1106 11 месяцев назад

This was a very good video. Thanks, Scott. "Ghost Story" (1981) is one of my favorite movies.

@williamdouglas1977 Год назад

Amazing as usual, thank you !

@Amyco3167 Год назад

Would love to visit here one day. Thanks Scott!

@kevinhensley4643 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Scott amazing video and history.

@buckaroobrothersproduction1704 Год назад

God bless you Scott

@debrablum2372 Год назад

Once again amazing! Thx Scott!

@cliffjenke3661 Год назад

Thank you Scott.

@DruinStLouis Год назад

Thank you so much!

@susanfalconedaquino3623 11 месяцев назад

Love all your videos....thank you for all your hard work.

@jennyspence6870 11 месяцев назад

Another fabulous video Scott love you man ❤

@Hummingbirds2023 Год назад

I loved Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He was the handsomest man I have ever seen!! Saw him in the Corsican Bros.when I was a kid on TV.and I fell in LOVE with him. He played twins in that movie too! ❤❤❤❤❤

@sallykohorst8803 11 месяцев назад

Very good subject and thanks for sharing

@davidmckinney6577 Год назад

This is so awesome video I saw a drain in the floor

@Thecorgially Год назад

I've been to Hollywood Forever and viewed the Fairbanks burial area but never walked up close to it.

@benzo4029 3 месяца назад

Thankyou Scott for remembering the classic Hollywood stars and keeping their memory alive. Well done! Last time I stood there admiring the Fairbanks reflection pool was in 1998 before Doug Jr. had passed. I'm glad to learn he is interred there by his father! You might have mentioned he appeared in a silent picture with Greta Garbo, and another," Our Modern Maidens" with his first bride, Joan Crawford in 1929. I loved his war pictures, such as "Narrow Corner" and *Gunga Din'. Always a class act and gentleman, and just as beloved in England as much as in America, even given a title in later years as "Sir" Douglas Fairbanks Jr.! May he RIP in heaven. And may his star always shine bright in the celluloid firmament of old Hollywood. Truly one of the greats.

@timh4235 Год назад

Great story, I always enjoy your videos! Been a fan of yours since Six degrees of Helter Skelter. Keep up the great work!

@syreetaabney6968 11 месяцев назад

Scott loved the video and I really enjoyed it and thank you scott for sharing with us.

@alanartme1 11 месяцев назад

Really Nice Video...And you handled it with very nice smooth camerawork! Thank you!!

@user-dp8vv9mz7d 8 месяцев назад

Excellent information. Thank you!

@Lockz5789 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for all your time love your videos

@ForeverChanged7 11 месяцев назад

I always love your content. Thanks so much.❤

@cryssiortiz6977 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Scott for your videos and research. Its very interesting.

@cubantoro Год назад

Hey Scott... another package is on its way. Mailed this morning... should arrive tomorrow. Love the Route 66 videos with Jordan. Enjoy the stuff!

@CherieFlemingHorrigan 11 месяцев назад

Love the video and I didn't know that the property was acquired by Paramount. Thank you, Scott!

@christinazerites3006 Год назад

Great video!

@chadmears136 Год назад

Your videos are soo Cool. Thanks Scott

@dmzabo3914 Год назад

Dissolved or Goo. That’s when I hit the floor with laughter. That was Funny Scott!

@AlianaRegos Год назад

Thank you!

@lauracaldwell3243 11 месяцев назад

Great presentation. Thank you!!

@briancrawford69 11 месяцев назад

I'm a lifelong California resident and native and I'm so upset I never got to go to the dearly departed store and tours 😢

@suechurchill2161 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for great video

@FormerMPSGT Год назад

Very Well Done Sir! Love your Work, especially EARLY/CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD! Hollywood Royalty as they say!

@trendywipp3715 10 месяцев назад

Poor Anton Yelchin's parents. Such a tragic loss. My two favorite movies of his are Charlie Bartlett and Alpha Dog. Of course he was great in the Start Trek movies. Love your videos! I have been a fan for many years. Going to check out your pateron now. I've never done that so it may take me a minute 😀

@jm7804 9 месяцев назад

He was something special, that's for sure. Handsome and talented. I'm sure their pain will never be eased.

@johnjames-glover4630 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating video. Best wishes from England.

@pwrfl2357 11 месяцев назад

So sad Anton's parents are there every day. Hearbreaking.

@lorrieearle2058 10 месяцев назад

Yelchin?

@chandracox6814 Месяц назад

@@lorrieearle2058yes.

@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235 11 месяцев назад

Fabulous insightful video......loved it.. beautiful Cemetery and fascinating information.....thank u 😊😊😊😊

@janineschreiber2790 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the information. It was great!

@curtgomes 11 месяцев назад

That cemetery is really worth the time to see. I was walking along and just happened to look down and see the grave marker for Mel Blanc, one of my favorites. There are many celebrities from the past interred there. It's a very pretty setting.

@rhondawilkins_ 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Scott Michael's for ALWAYS showing respect to the decedent when reading an autopsy report or going to the cemetery.

@whatsthedealwithdanny3913 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Thanks for sharing

@DMfilmfan Год назад

I genuinely feel sorry for DF Senior inasmuch as he recognized that the end of the silents meant the end of his career ... the end of the way that he liked to make movies. Senior made a few mediocre talkies, retired and was (for the most part) quickly forgotten, along with many other silent stars. Junior stayed on good terms with former stepmom Mary Pickford (although he supposedly couldn't stand his dad's widow Lady Sylvia Ashley). In the years following DF Senior's death the animosity between Pickford and Chaplin only intensified. Junior tried a rapprochement between Pickford and Chaplin, saying to the elderly Mary that Chaplin mellowed over the years. She replied "I don't care, he's still a son of a bitch" lol.

@paulcarpenter999 Год назад

Fairbanks Sr's biographer Jeffrey Vance said that the narcissistic elder Fairbanks likely wouldn't have approved sharing his grave with anyone, not even his son.

@LadyGreyBlack 11 месяцев назад

I also understand Mary didn't care much for Joan Crawford; F. Scott Fitzgerald was said to have called Joan "a bitch".

@bambinoandmore46 11 месяцев назад

I hadn't heard that before, interesting

@jackmorrison7379 8 месяцев назад

Who says he was forgotten? A statue is at USC along with a memorial for his donor/sponsorship of film studies. In San Diego County a gated community is named after his ranch "Fairbanks Ranch". His restored films now have a new following on this platform and elsewhere. There are other tributes and memorials at the Academy museum, and elsewhere. As to Chaplin and Pickford, it's a long story going back to Chaplin holding his work product away from UA, being the control freak he was, and some of it may have been his attitude toward women (he was tried in California and acquitted by the jury on a sex charge). As to Mary, she had a long slow decline into alcoholism, and a recluse un-helped (?) by her last husband "Buddy" Rogers.

@jackmorrison7379 8 месяцев назад

Mr. Carpenter. I've read Vance's other biographies, so I'm not a hostile critic. But do read Ms. Goessel's biography of Fairbanks Sr. It's less of the "let's find fault" genre, and more let's reintroduce modern readers to this remarkable if now little known (to those under 70) man and in his day great star.

@ohmeowzer1 11 месяцев назад

This was amazing thank you ❤

@georgefarrington895 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for all your hard work.

@theoldempressrv6193 11 месяцев назад

Thanks.....love tge effort put in and knowledge....from the UK

@conemadam 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating. Thank you!

@janetleishman3776 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for this

@michaeldenesyk3195 Год назад

Douglas Fairbanks sr looked fin? Did they open his casket? or were they judging by the condition of the casket? Interesting stuff

@user-bd5nh5eb4b 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much, enjoyed the trip. I can't go the places I wish, am dependent upon persons such as you. This was well researched, full of fascinating information, and you have a kind demeanor ❤.