![]() Santa Monica historic landmarks courtesy of Jodi Summers For as long as they’ve. Hollywood, those with power and money have been flocking. Santa Monica. Back in the 1. Santa Monica. Pier was known as the Gold Coast because the people who built houses there. Along this private road, Palisades. Beach Road, lived four of the five men who created Hollywood; Irving Thalberg. ![]() Norma Shearer, oil man J. Paul Getty, comedian Harold. Lloyd and leading man Douglas Fairbanks. Locals called the area Rolls Royce. Row. In his day, Hearst owned 2. Santa Monica’s Gold. Coast was so desirable that in 1. Hearst, one of the richest and most. America, commissioned Julia Morgan (the architect of the. Hearst Castle) to fashion an estate on 4. Marion Davies. Morgan created a three- story, 3. Georgian mansion on the Pacific. Coast Highway in Santa Monica. It was accompanied by three guest houses. Rumor has it the cost was $7 million dollars. The property was sold in the 1. State. took it over and leased it to the City of Santa Monica. The state leased. Sand and Sea hotel and beach club. But Randolph Hearst's 1. Ms. Marion Davies didn't have enough bedrooms. All but the pool, servants quarters and tennis. The Sand & Sea closed down. The State took it over, and opened the road to the public. Previously. Palisades Beach Road was inaccessible to the general public because you. Sand and Sea Club. The property stood idle while the State and City Council debated what. They leased the property for filming. Then. the 1. 99. 4 Northridge earthquake rattled the property to its foundation. It has since been fenced up and waiting. Members. of City Council rallied for the structure, but still nothing happened. The estimated cost to rehab the Marion. Davies was $1. 8 million. Some months ago, the City staff came up with a new plan. As they weren’t. willing to fund the $1. ![]() Top pornstars like Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick and Jesse Jane. 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Tamil movie photos & stills - Tamil movies high quality photos stills pictures images gallery. Thank you Wallis Annenberg, Walter Annenberg’s. Annenberg Foundation, one of this country’s. She has expressed her intent to award. City of Santa Monica to help restore, renovate. Marion Davies estate at 4. Pacific Coast Highway. What could be more spectacular. Pacific Coast Highway? What a great space for a. Council member Bobby. Shriver, who chairs the State Parks Commission, is enthusiastic about. City and. the State. The rehab is expected to begin in the spring of 2. JULIA MORGANJulia Morgan was by far the most important female architect of the early. Daughter of a prosperous Oakland mining engineer, Morgan. University of California at Berkeley, in 1. With the encouragement. Bernard Maybeck, she became the first woman to enter the. Ecole des Beaux- Arts in Paris, in 1. According to a KQED biography of her, before she was admitted. Paris for several years until they could no longer admit. Women were not permitted to vote. From the moment she opened her own. According to Bernard Maybeck, Morgan's one- time mentor, there was “never. Her repertoire included William. Randolph Hearst's San Simeon castle, Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco as. Hearst's lawyer (Mc. Murray). She came to adopt his philosophy that . Morgan's philosophy was simple: design. She always wanted to be a star. When she met William Randolph. Hearst, she had already made a name for herself on the Broadway stage. Then her marketing. Over the next ten years, Davies filmed an average of almost three films. She was a tireless worker, always trying to live up to the relentless. Hearst. In the early twenties, she and Hearst relocated their movie company. Cosmopolitan Productions, to California to join forces with Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer. Once the Beach House was finished, Marion evolved into Hollywood's. Her parties attracted the day’s biggest stars. Those who knew Davies say. For more information on celebrities in Santa Monica. SUN, SEA & STARS - SANTA MONICA IS A FAVORITE SPOT FOR HOLLYWOOD’S. ELITEBy Jodi Summers. For as long as they’ve been making films in Hollywood, those with. Santa Monica. Back in the 1. Santa Monica Pier was known as the Gold Coast. Beach. Road, a. k. Palisades Beach Road, was called the Gold Coast because the. In the early days, Beach road was home to four of the five men who. Hollywood; Irving Thalberg and his wife, actress Norma Shearer. J. Paul Getty; comedian Harold Lloyd and leading man Douglas Fairbanks. Mary Pickford. Locals called the area Rolls Royce Row. In 1. 92. 8, the Gold Coast was so desirable that newspaper magnate William. Randolph Hearst, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. Julia Morgan (the architect of the Hearst Castle) to fashion. Marion Davies. Morgan. Georgian mansion. Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica. It was accompanied by three. Called. . It was the grandest. The road under the bluffs has always been one of the most desirable streets. Hollywood legend Harold Lloyd was at 4. Beach Road, Mae West. Darryl Zanuck at 5. Samuel Goldwyn at 6. Harry Warner at 6. Louis B. Mayer and Peter Lawford at 6. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Norma Shearer at 7. How about some early Kennedy stories. Pat Kennedy. sister to President John F. Kennedy, and her bonvivant husband Peter Lawford. Lawford. – who was engaged in swinging . His parties. for the President were attended by beautiful people like the Rat pack. Marilyn Monroe. It’s rumored that when in L. A., J. F. K. The President spent so much time. You. could only enter that street through the exclusive private beach club. The Sand & Sea Club. Sand & Sea closed down. Many episodes of the popular TV series . That’s the story of one street. Celebrities live all over Santa. Monica, not just on the Gold Coast. Well- known residents have included. Sean Penn, June Lockhart, Tobey Maguire, Robert Redford, Jeff Bridges. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Judge Reinhold, Harry Shearer and Tom Selleck. We will tell you. Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger lived on 2. St. Together they founded the Campaign. Economic Democracy, “An effort to transform the radicalism of. In 1. 98. 2. Hayden was elected to the California State Legislature, and the celebrity. Santa Monica. And now the Kennedys are in vogue on the Santa Monica political landscape. Kennedy. the son of 1. R. Sergeant Shriver and Special. Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and brother California first. Maria Shriver. Shriver, a Yale- educated lawyer and longtime philanthropist, decided. City Council after he and some of his north of Montana Ave. The City demanded that Shriver trim the hedges around. Angered by the arbitrary way in which the City conducts itself, he chose. City Council. He received the most votes in the November City. Council Election. Voting is an intimate act. Omi Vaidya aka 'Chatur' from '3 Idiots' is back in Bollywood. Omi Vaidya in a still from '3 Idiots'He shot to fame as Chatur Ramalingam aka Silencer in Aamir Khan- starrer '3 Idiots' (2. Best remembered for his hilarious 'Chamatkar' speech in the comedy, Omi Vaidya became an overnight sensation. The LA- based actor returns to Bollywood with Abhinay Deo's upcoming film, 'Raita', a comic caper, starring Irrfan Khan. Says Abhinay, . We went the extra mile to reach out to him in the US and bring him back to Bollywood. The comedy is situational. Away from B- Town, he has kept busy in the US. Omi's recent release is 'Here Or To Go?', in which he plays a gay character. He also features in 'Brown Nation', a satire on Indians in the US, on Netflix. Docu on Vaidya. Omi's the subject of Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles' Big In Bollywood, which released on Netflix earlier this year. It traces his journey from a struggling actor in LA to earning fame with 3 Idiots.
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