Lois Collier

AKA:
Lois Collyer
Birth Name:
Madelyn Earle Jones
Birth Date:
March 21, 1919
Birth Place:
Salley, South Carolina
Death Date:
October 27, 1999
Place of Death:
Motion Picture Country Home, Woodland Hills, California
Age:
80
Cause of Death:
Alzheimer's disease
Cemetery Name:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Claim to Fame:
Show Business
Lois Collier was a Hollywood actress whose acting career started as a model in the 1935 romance-comedy "Women Must Dress". From 1940 through 1949, her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. Her best known film is probably A Night in Casablanca (1946) starring the Marx Brothers. During the 1940s, she often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950, she starred in the sci-fi serial The Flying Disc Man from Mars. In the early 1950s she branched out into television where Collier starred mostly on television series episodes. She played Mary, the hero's girlfriend and sidekick, in 58 episodes of the television series Boston Blackie, which ran from 1951 to 1954. She retired from acting after 1957.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd.

Los Angeles, California, 90038

USA

North America

Map:

Map of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
Map of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California

Grave Location:

New Beth Olam Mausoleum, Hall of David, Plot: TB-T62/6/384, Crypt 6386

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery take the second right and drive towards the mausoleum and then veer left. Park at the triangular parking area and walk further down, past the Judy Garland Pavilion and enter through the door on your right. Lois Collier is located in the 6th elongated hallway of crypts on the east wall, second row from the top. Note she is buried under her married name of Madelyn Earle Schreibman.

Grave Location GPS

34.08863477994108, -118.32201047247408

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