Westchester Hills Cemetery
The Westchester Hills Cemetery is at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, approximately north of New York City. It is a Jewish cemetery, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It was founded in 1919 when the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue acquired the northern portion of the Mount Hope Cemetery.
Notable interments
- Barricini family, boxed candy makers
- Charles E. Bloch, President Bloch Publishing Company
- Barbara Bradford, novelist
- Mischa Elman, violinist
- I. J. Fox, notable furrier
- Joyce Pinn Fox, banking executive
- Captain George Fried, won Navy Cross for rescue of ships Antinoe, and Florida
- Stanley P. Friedman, writer
- John Garfield, actor
- George Gershwin, composer
- Ira Gershwin, lyricist
- Jonah Goldman, baseball player
- Ben Grauer, television and radio personality
- Guggenheim family, founders of the Guggenheim Museum
- Sidney Hillman, first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Judy Holliday, actress
- Allyn King, Broadway actress and former Ziegfeld Follies performer
- Richard Lindner, German-American painter
- Lucille Lortel, actress and producer
- Arnold Newman, photographer
- Roberta Peters, opera singer
- Tony Randall, actor
- Max Reinhardt, producer and director
- Billy Rose, Broadway producer
- A. M. Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
- Robert Rossen, motion picture director and screenwriter
- Ron Silver, American actor, director, and producer
- Lee Strasberg, actor-teacher
- Paula Strasberg, actress-teacher
- Irving Sturm, founder of Iridium Jazz Club and Ellen's Stardust Diner
- Maxine Sullivan, American jazz vocalist and performer
- David Susskind, Emmy award-winning producer
- Laurence Tisch, head of CBS and co-founder of Loews, brother of Preston
- Preston Robert Tisch, financier and business magnate, brother of Laurence
- Rabbi Stephen Wise, religious leader
- Louise Waterman Wise, social worker and artist, wife of Stephen Wise
- Alexandra Pregel, Russian-American artist
- Boris Pregel, scientist-physicist