Obituaries for Los Angeles County California Surnames Starting with A
ANZELONE, VICTOR A.
VICTOR A. ANZELONE, 38, of West Hollywood,
Calif., and formerly of Wildwood Crest, died Tuesday at his home.
Surviving are his mother, Martha of Stone Harbor; his father, Victor of Wildwood
Crest; three brothers, Ric of Wildwood Crest, Bruce of Wildwood
and Anthony of Cape May Court House.
Services will be held 4 p.m. Monday at Wildwood Crest Community Church.
Arrangements are by the Abbott and Hast Funeral Home, Los Angeles, Cal.
--Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ) - October 12, 1996
[Contributed by A. Newell]
ARNOLD, CASSIDY ANN
Santa Clarita, CA--Cassidy Ann Arnold - Beloved Daughter Cassidy Ann Arnold, 5, died on December 26, 2005 suddenly and peacefully in Santa Clarita, CA. She was born on April 20, 2000 in Torrance, CA and was a resident of Santa Clarita, CA.
Cassidy was a first grade student at Valley View Elementary School. She enjoyed horseback riding, swimming, walking, music, Blues Clues, Elmo and especially, Dora the Explorer.
She is survived by her parents, Lester and Debra Arnold; brother, Joseph Arnold; grandparents, Joseph and Lucy Arnold of Springfield, MA and Eliasel and Leila Roque of Springfield, MA; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Visitation will be Wednesday, January 4, 2005 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Grace Baptist Church, 22833 Copperhill Dr., Santa Clarita, CA. Funeral service to follow at 3:00 p.m. at Grace Baptist.
--The Signal, Santa Clarita, January 1, 2006 [Contributed by A. Newell]
ACKERMAN,WALTER
Veterans in the motion picture industry will attend funeral services for Walter
Ackerman, 57 year old character actor, at 3 p.m. today in Pierce Bros. chapel.
Ackerman, who lived at 123 N. Kingsley Drive, died Monday at St. Vincent's
Hospital.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles California December 14, 1938
Submitted by Shauna Williams
ADOREE, RENEE
Renee Adoree, 31, Film Player, Dead
Born in Circus Tent in France, She was Toe Dancer, horsewoman and Acrobat at 10.
Won Fame In 'Big Parade'
Came Here Soon After Flight From Germans in Belgium-On Stage Before Movies
Hollywood, Calif., Oct. 5 - Renee Adoree, 31 year old screen
actress, who was one of the most popular members of the film colony and who will
long be remembered for the role of Melisande in "The big Parade," died today
after an illness of three years with a respiratory ailment.
The actress succumbed early this morning at a Sunland health
resort.
"Call of the Flesh," in which she played in support of Ramon
Novarro, was her last screen play. Against the advice of her physicians she
continued with the picture until it was finished. She was then rushed to a
sanitarium in Prescott, Ariz., where she lay flat on her back for more than two
years in an effort to regain her health.
Six months ago she was released from the sanitarium and at
the time it was thought she was sufficiently recovered to attempt a comeback on
the screen, but almost immediately her strength began to fail and day by day she
grew weaker. Although passing her time quietly in her modest little home in the
Tujuna Hills, near the film city, it finally became necessary to remove her to
the Sunland health resort a few weeks ago.
The funeral will be held at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning in
the Hollywood Cemetery Chapel, with the Rev. James Hamilton Lash officiating.
Burial will be in a vault at the mausoleum there.
Traveled for Years in Europe
The earliest recollection of the actress as a child were of
the hurriedly erected tents in which she slept while her mother and father
performed with one of the small circuses of which they were members during the
first fifteen years of her life. She was born in such a tent at Lille, France.
She was christened Renee de La Fointe, and the name Adoree,
given to her by a showman when she made her first appearance in a circus shortly
before she was 10 years old, was used to advantage when she made her initial
attempt to enter the movies.
With two sisters and a brother, she traveled in circuses
throughout most of Europe. Her father taught her acrobatics and horseback
riding; her mother prepared her as a toe dancer. As a toe dancer she made her
first public appearance a few months before she was 10.
At 12 she was a performer in the small nomad circuses with
which she and her family traveled. She later said that in one season she had
appeared as toe dancer, acrobat, equestrienne and clown.
Watching other performers as a child she developed a talent
for pantomime, and shortly after she had passed her fifteenth birthday she left
the circus lot to join a company of pantomimists in a tour of Europe. She spoke
five languages, but at her debut in the movies had never attended school.
In 1914 when war was declared she was appearing as a dancer
in a Brussels theatre. With other refugees, she fled before the German Army
advance in a freight car to France. From there she went to England, where she
appeared in musical comedy.
With a small sum of money saved, the actress came to the
United States and appeared in three musical shows in New York. They were "Oh
uncle," "O What a Girl" and "The Dancer and Sunny."
A casting director of the Fox Film Company met her one night
at a theatre and asked her to take a screen test. The test was a failure and she
gave up her interest in the movies. Friends, however, urged her to take a second
test, and as a result of it she received a part in 1921 in "The Strongest," a
French war play.
From then until 1925 she played a number of parts with
varying success. In that year "The Big Parade" was released, with her and John
Gilbert in the principal roles. Few pictures have been received with such
accliam.
Miss Adoree was married twice, Her first husband was Tom
Moore, the actor. They were divorced in 1926 and a year later she married
William Sherman Gill, a Los Angeles business man. They were divorced in 1929.
Among the pictures in which she appeared were: "The Bandolero,"
"Excuse Me," "Man and Maid," "Parisian Nights," "Exchange of Wives," "The Black
Bird," "La Boheme," "Tin Gods," "The Flaming Forest," "The Show," "Mr. Wu,"
"Back to God's Country," "The Cossacks," "The Mating Call," "The Spieler," "The
Pagan," "Redemption" and "Call of the Flesh."
October 6, 1933 New York Times, New York New York
Submitted by Shauna Williams