Vintage original 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) U.S. double-weight still photograph, c.1950s, very fine condition, provenance: archive of "Graphic House Inc.," New York, NY. The image features an exterior long shot of the "Cathedral Mausoleum" of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. This is one of the most famous gravesites of celebrity seekers, as it is the burial place of silent film legend Rudolph Valentino (located in crypt number 1205). His crypt features a large plaque with an urn on either side which, to this day, are almost always filled with flowers. On the verso is a rubber stamp which indicates that this still came from the photo archive of "Graphic House Inc." in New York City and asking to credit "Murray Garrett" with "Private Copy" and some additional text below. The famous screenwriter June Mathis, who was responsible for having Valentino cast as young Julio Desnoyers in Rex Ingram's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," the film which made him a star, is interred in the same area of the mausoleum. When Valentino died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1926, Miss Mathis donated one of her family crypts to Valentino for his internment, so the two real-life Hollywood friends lie side by side.

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