Westchester Hills Cemetery
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The Westchester Hills Cemetery, approximately 20 miles north of New York City, was established at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. It welcomes Christians and Jews to be buried in it, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It contains both Mount Hope and the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue cemeteries.
Amongst its famous residents is composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) and his brother, lyrical composer Ira Gershwin (1896-1983). Well-regarded drama teachers of The Actors Studio, Lee Strasberg and his wife, Paula Strasberg, are also buried in Westchester Hills Cemetery.
Some of the notables interred here are:
- Barricini family, boxed candy
- Mischa Elman, violinist
- Stanley P. Friedman, writer
- John Garfield, actor
- George Gershwin, composer
- Ira Gershwin, lyrical composer
- Ben Grauer, television and radio personality
- Guggenheim family, Guggenheim museum
- Judy Holliday, actress
- Sidney Hillman, first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Lucille Lortel, actress and producer
- Tony Randall, actor
- Max Reinhardt,producer-director
- Billy Rose, Broadway producer
- A.M. Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- Robert Rossen, motion picture director and screenwriter
- Lee Strasberg, actor-teacher
- Paula Strasberg, actress-teacher
- David Susskind, Emmy award winning producer
- Laurence Tisch, head of CBS and co-founder of Loews
- Preston Robert Tisch, financier and business magnate
- Rabbi Stephen Wise, religious leader
