Talk:Ray "Crash" Corrigan

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Untitled[edit]

Benard or Benaud? Both forms of Corrigan's birth name appear on this page. Jperrylsu (talk) 21:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

unmarked grave?[edit]

crash corrigan's grave is still unmarked? why? i don't get it. did he go through all of the money bob hope paid him for corriganville, so there was no money left in his estate to buy a headstone? did he alienate all the members of his family, so that none of THEM were willing to mark his grave with a stone? it's ironic that someone who held a large piece of property throughout much of his lifetime would go to an unmarked grave.75.68.9.233 (talk) 21:43, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A definite mystery to be sure, especially since Corrigan had surviving family at the time of his death--three children, plus two ex-wives. According to the online website Find A Grave, his grave still remains unmarked (as of April 2019). Their info includes a photo of the gravesite and clearly shows where a marker could be added. After so many years, it seems unlikely that one will ever be added--unless an old westerns fan has one added at their expense. Here's the online info:

Ray Corrigan Birth: 14 Feb 1902 Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA Death 10 Aug 1976 (aged 74) Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA Burial: Inglewood Park Cemetery Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA Plot: El Sereno Plot, Lot 748, Grave E (Unmarked) Memorial ID: 10030572 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.175.22 (talk) 11:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clues as to why Corrigan's grave was left unmarked by his family may be linked to battles and court cases involving Ray, his ex-wife Rita, and the ownership of Corriganville. There was also their divorce and custody of their three children. The Google News Archive has articles from 1954 about these issues:

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19640624&id=O5IKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BUwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2233,6828139
   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19640629&id=_hpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7VYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4542,4962862
   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19640624&id=CVZYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5979,5617586
   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19541222&id=W6shAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PpoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5905,3941726
   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19541221&id=7IxWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dkENAAAAIBAJ&pg=6866,5708577
   http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19541221&id=vgtHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t_MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1279,5562753  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:300:4500:3112:11ED:D88E:1CDB:258C (talk) 12:09, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To the editor[edit]

Hi,

Can you please explain in the article what a B-western is? I clicked on the link but it just took me to the Western (genre) article and the word B-western is not even mentioned in it. Thanks.

I've changed the B-Western Wikipedia link to the one for "B-movie", which will explain what a B-western was back in that bygone era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.175.22 (talk) 11:42, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Better main image[edit]

Looking at this article, the main image used for the infobox is insufficient and should be replaced with one of the actor rather than a theatrical release poster.

This has be now done. A movie still from from a Corrigan western w/a young John Wayne is now been substituted in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.175.22 (talk) 11:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Grave is NOT unmarked[edit]

Crash Corrigan’s grave is not in Inglewood Park Cemetary - perhaps that is why the person who wrote about his death said he was in an unmarked grave. That’s not true. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills. I just watched a YouTube video about him, and they showed a gravestone with his signature and his birth and death years. Is that why it is written that he’s in an unmarked grave? If they’re looking in Inglewood, and he’s buried in the Hollywood Hills, that would explain why there was no grave marker in Inglewood. I wanted to correct it, but I don’t know how to do that. 47.155.236.26 (talk) 09:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]