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Frank Morgan’s Grave in Brooklyn

Atlas Obscura·Added By Kris·25 days ago
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Green-Wood Cemetery is the final resting place of luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein and Jean Michel Basquiat, but there’s at least one that might be incognito to most passersby due to the individual being buried under his birth name – Wuppermann – instead of his stage name Frank Morgan, an actor best known for portraying the Wizard of Oz in the eponymous 1939 film. Francis Phillip Wuppermann was born in New York City in 1890 to a wealthy family that made its fortune distributing Angostura bitters, which enabled young Frank to attend Cornell University. He would follow his older brother Ralph into acting, starting in theater with plays like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but eventually making his way to the screen in 1916’s The Suspect . He had a fairly successful career in film, earning an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Affairs of Cellini .…

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