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Mourners attend quiet funeral for Florenz Ziegfeld
The funeral for Florenz Ziegfeld, announced as simple yet lavish, drew 1000 close friends from stage and screen. Notables including Billie Burke, Will Rogers, John Barrymore, Marion Davies, Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, and others gathered at Forest Lawn before Ziegfeld’s body was to be sent to New York for a public service. Ziegfeld, recently in a New Mexico sanitarium, died Friday night after a pneumonia decline.
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New York
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Billie Burke
Will Bogers
Walker
Ziegfeld
John Barrymore
Marion Davies
Eddie Cantor
Harold Lloyd
Bebe Davies
Ben Lyons
William Randolph Hearst
Hollywood