The Daly marker seen in the film is at Section 1W, Range 18, Plot P, Grave #17, and Corleone would have been buried right behind that. So, the location is probably that or the adjacent Section 1W, Range 18, Plot N -- or something thereabouts. There are no markers where the Corleone burial would have been so you'd need the detailed cemetery map to deduce a precise grave # location-- and even at that you'd have to guess a little, since the open grave is never shown in the film.
Posted by mark thomas on Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:22:39 PM EDT
Map of Don Corleone's grave location
Any chance you would know what the plot number of Don Corleone's 'grave' location? I see from the map it is between 43 and 39? My parents are located in Section 1 West Plot 41, I always thought the funeral scene in the Godfather was familiar.Thanks to your website,I know for sure it's close to where they did the scene. I live in Canada now, so I can't check out the cemetery myself to figure out how close my family's gravesite is to the Don's. Thanks
Posted by Therese Xuereb on Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:58:42 PM EDT
DALY plot
I was at Calvary today and saw the DALY stone. I was watching the Godfather and said to my wife that is where my Grandfather is buried. It turns out he is about 8 row away from the sight. As a child in the early 70's I remember my father saying that the Godfather was filmed somewhere around my grandfathers grave. I went there today and was proud to stand where all those great actors stood but felt sad that the cemetery is deteriorating and the mausoleums have pad locks on them. I will be back in the spring and will get some pictures to post as well.
Posted by glen Annarumma on Mon 22 Dec 2008 09:47:06 PM EST
I got an e-mail from a site visitor named Jack who commented on this photo, and I wanted to share part of our correspondence as I thought it might be of interest. Jack wrote:
"One comment on your analysis of the Daly gravestone: It would seem, as you said, that only the top half of the monument was moved, as the lower structure with the engraved message still faces the same way. However, it seems to me that the orientation is more appropriate now, since the message on the lower structure would appear below the family name engraving just above it. In the movie, the space below the name was blank, presumably with the message on the other side (where there would be no name above it). Perhaps the orientation in the movie is the one that's wrong!"
A portion of my response follows:
"You know I actually considered this possibility, but I went with my interpretation after some thought.
Here's why: There is actually another Daly marker near...
I got an e-mail from a site visitor named Jack who commented on this photo, and I wanted to share part of our correspondence as I thought it might be of interest. Jack wrote:
"One comment on your analysis of the Daly gravestone: It would seem, as you said, that only the top half of the monument was moved, as the lower structure with the engraved message still faces the same way. However, it seems to me that the orientation is more appropriate now, since the message on the lower structure would appear below the family name engraving just above it. In the movie, the space below the name was blank, presumably with the message on the other side (where there would be no name above it). Perhaps the orientation in the movie is the one that's wrong!"
A portion of my response follows:
"You know I actually considered this possibility, but I went with my interpretation after some thought.
Here's why: There is actually another Daly marker near this one, and this other Daly tombstone is of a very similar style to the one shown on my web site.
In fact, the first time I went out to find this marker I did so without any screenshots or photos from the Godfather scene. I just went on memory from having watched the scene the night before. So when I saw a Daly marker in the general area where the scene had been filmed I figured that had to be it. I obviously did not realize that Daly is a very common name.
I got some photos of the wrong marker and discovered my mistake later when comparing my photos to the scene from the film.
When I went back to Calvary I found the correct Godfather Daly marker nearby, and I would say that the confusion was understandable considering the similarity of the tombstones.
The reason I tell you all this is that that Daly marker (the wrong one which, again, is of a very similar style to the one from the film) is such that the Daly name on top faces west, in the way the Daly marker in the film faces west. That seems to be a common feature of this style of tombstone, too: The name is writ large on the front *and* on the back of the marker, I assume for the sake of making the name more visible.
Today, if you look at the wide-angle view of the Godfather Daly tombstone, the Daly name is writ large twice on the front. That might pass unnoticed to most observers but I think it is stylistically redundant, and that having the name twice makes more sense if it is on the front and back. This also happens to be consistent with the style of other markers."
Posted by mark thomas on Fri 28 Nov 2008 01:27:34 PM EST
The Beauty of Old Calvary
Last week I drove down from my home in Connecticut to 1st Calvary Cemetery to see the grave site of my great grandparents in section 4B. Old Calvary Cemetery is indeed an amazing and beautiful place. The background of the BQE and Kosciusco Bridge brought the image of the Corleone Funeral back in my mind. I later did some investigating and found your web site. Thank you for the photographs and the research you have done on the mausoleums and other monuments.
Posted by James J. Corless (guest) on Wed 06 Aug 2008 03:39:04 PM EDT
The Daly marker seen in the film is at Section 1W, Range 18, Plot P, Grave #17, and Corleone would have been buried right behind that. So, the location is probably that or the adjacent Section 1W, Range 18, Plot N -- or something thereabouts. There are no markers where the Corleone burial would have been so you'd need the detailed cemetery map to deduce a precise grave # location-- and even at that you'd have to guess a little, since the open grave is never shown in the film.
Posted by mark thomas on Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:22:39 PM EDT