ABSTRACT
Hollywood Forever Cemetery hosts one of the largest Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations in the United States, and one of the few held at a U.S. cemetery. The celebration builds on the cemetery’s own tradition of allowing creative methods of commemoration, such as evocative epitaphs and the inclusion of personal effects in memorial niches. The event also offers another means of engagement with celebrity culture, whether altarists are remembering stars with whom they feel a deep sense of connection or are using the event as a way to draw attention to forgotten actors interred at Hollywood Forever.
