Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and

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Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood

Even celebrities dieâ€”and he was the man who picked up the bodies! Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and got an unprecedented glimpse of how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroeâ€™s body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Woodâ€™s funeral. Now in his memoir â€œPardon My Hearse,â€ Abbott tells the rags-to-shroud story of how we went from a young man with a hearse to the funeral driver to the starsâ€”a rollicking, unexpectedly hilarious story of glamorous funerals, mishaps with corpses, and true-life glimpses of celebrities at their most revealing moments. â€Pardon My Hearseâ€ is an eye-opening look at secret Hollywood from the man who literally knows where the bodies are buried.

Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood