Hot Property: Onetime home of Cary Grant in Palm Springs for sale at $4,995,000

One of the world’s greatest leading men, Cary Grant, slept here. Actually, Grant did more than sleep here. He used this 1927 Palm Springs house as his personal hideaway for more than 20 years, starting in the 1950s. And now it’s on the market for $4,995,000.

The 6,000-square-foot Spanish farmhouse has six bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms. It has a real Old Hollywood feel with a built-in dressing room and a studio. There is a 40-foot-long great room, a saline pool and mountain views. Wallace Neff designed the guest wing, which has three bedrooms, each with a different stucco fireplace and private bathroom.

The compound is on a tree-lined street and sits on 1.5 acres in this desert community’s Movie Colony neighborhood – an area so dubbed because of the many celebrities who once lived here.

Grant called this home Las Palomas, Spanish for “The Doves.”

Many original features remain, including the double-thick whitewashed walls, hand-painted Spanish Talavera tiles in the kitchen and bathrooms, kiva fireplaces and handmade terra-cotta roof tiles.

Jeffrey Hyland of Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Beverly Hills, an affiliate of Christie’s Great Estates, co-listed the property with Tyler Morgan of Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate, Palm Springs.