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Ronald Colman's old home sells in Playa del Rey
A Playa del Rey house built for Oscar-winning 1930s film star Ronald Colman has sold for $1.6 million.
The Mediterranean, constructed in 1927, sits on an ocean-view lot in a hilltop area known as Palisades del Rey. Original details include a carved...Tags: Homes, Entertainment, Movies
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Carlos Pena Jr. buys home in the Valley
Actor, singer and tween idol Carlos Pena Jr., 21, has bought a Mediterranean-style home in the San Fernando Valley for close to its $1.5-million asking price.
The 6,000-square-foot villa is set back from the road on a gated lot. The paver-stone courtyard...Tags: ER (tv program), Banking, Homes, Human Interest, Real Estate
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Living chic by jowl in the Malibu Colony
When Cheronda Guyton, a senior vice president with Wells Fargo, used a foreclosed home to host lavish parties last summer in the Malibu Colony, she broke more than a few company rules. But by caving to her craving for the beach life, the now-fired bank...Tags: Larry Hagman, History, Don Rickles, Wells Fargo & Co., Jerry Brown
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Hollywood and the sands of time: A look back at 10 films set in the Middle East
The Hero ComplexSusan King is the Hero Complex specialist on classic Hollywood, and today she looks back at the long history of American popcorn films set in the Middle East -- and their complicated legacy. Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are together...... -
Oscars have always welcomed the world
Gold DerbyThis year's Oscars numbered only one foreign-born winner -- Austria's Christoph Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") -- among the four acting champs. However, that does not mean the Oscars are guilty of any homegrown bias. After all, six of the 20 acting... -
'Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood' by Cheeta the Chimp
Rin Tin Tin and I are into what we call "extreme romping." Once a week, we head for the back country, where we leap crags and ford rivers -- just like in the movies, except there are no bad guys. Last week, before beginning our trip home, he mentioned...Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Deanna Durbin, Genres, Rin Tin Tin (dog), Joseph Cotten
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For a pretty penny, San Ysidro's pretty swell
Times Staff WriterThe nearly $800 a night it costs to stay in a recently renovated cottage at the San Ysidro Ranch wouldn't raise the pulse of many guests at this Montecito Elysium. For the rest of us, let's be real; $800 is probably three evenings out, two months of...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Furniture, Rivers, Miramar, John Steinbeck
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They were the kids of Malibu Colony
Special to The TimesIn the '60s, beach-roaming kids discovered the Byrds playing at Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim's open beach bash. A decade later, Cher's son Elijah Allman's first birthday party featured elephants and an Army tank. More recently, a lemonade stand served Tom...Tags: Clark Gable, Lawyers, University of California, Los Angeles, Bette Midler, Tennis
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Humble theaters become movie palaces
In October 1917, a theater opened at 3535 W. Roosevelt Road that changed the moviegoing experience, in Chicago and the nation.
In the era of the nickelodeon, a term reflecting not just the price of admission, but the surroundings, motion pictures were...Tags: Greer Garson, John Philip Sousa, Al Jolson, Arts and Culture, Red Skelton
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TCM salutes Lucille Ball, Marlon Bando, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, many others
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelOf special note: TCM on Saturday, Aug. 6, salutes Lucille Ball, one of TV's greatest stars, who gained her training over many years in the movies. Viewers will get to see her Technicolor beauty in "Du Barry Was a Lady," her teaming with Desi Arnaz in "The... -
Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Dick Powell, Fred Zinnemann, Crimes, Murder, Gene Tierney
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Some real eye-openers
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation is at it again. Taking over the James Bridges Theater in the campus' Melnitz Hall today through Aug. 19, the 13th preservation event is once more showing the widest and most exciting variety of...Tags: John Cassavetes, Billy Wilder, Roxie Hart (fictional character), University of California, Los Angeles, Victor McLaglen
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