Grapewin Street in Corona, California, where he died, is named after
him.
Died the same year that his most famous film, "The Wizard of Oz", first came to television, but did not live long enough to see the telecast, which took place in November of 1956.
Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the
Great Mausoleum.
He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & The Grapes of Wrath (1940).