<P> Actress Hattie McDaniel was best known for her role as Mammy in the epic movie Gone with the Wind, for which she became the first African American to win an Academy Award . She had expressed a desire to be interred at Hollywood Memorial Park . At the time of McDaniel's death in 1952, Hollywood Memorial, like other cemeteries, was segregated . Despite McDaniel's expressed wish, Roth would not allow the actress to be interred in the cemetery . Hollywood Forever would be desegregated seven years later . In 1999 (the 47th anniversary of McDaniel's death), the cemetery's current owner dedicated a cenotaph in her honor at a prime location south of Sylvan Lake . </P> <P> In July 1974, the crematory was shut down after singer Cass Elliot was cremated . According to cemetery grounds supervisor Daniel Ugarte, the crematory was in such disrepair that bricks began falling in around Elliot's remains . The crematory would be repaired and re-opened twenty - eight years later in 2002 . </P> <P> By the 1980s, the California Cemetery Board began receiving regular complaints from the families of people interred there . Family members complained that the grounds were not kept up and were disturbed to hear stories about vandalism on the cemetery grounds . The heirs of well - known makeup artist Max Factor (who was interred in the Beth Olam Mausoleum in 1938) moved his and other Factor family remains to Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City after the mausoleum sustained water damage that discolored the walls . </P> <P> In 1986, a Los Angeles woman and 1,000 other plot owners filed a class action lawsuit against the cemetery for invasion of privacy after they discovered that Roth allowed employees of Paramount Pictures to park in the cemetery while the studio's parking structure was undergoing construction . </P>

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