Real Estate
The restored and updated Streamline Moderne-style home, designed by architect William Kesling, was built in the 1930s for Oscar winner Wallace Beery.
March 5, 2020
A Fairfax home designed by architect William Kesling and built for actor Wallace Beery is for sale at $1.685 million.
Movies
Burly, graveled-voice character actor Wallace Beery is an acquired taste for contemporary audiences, but in the golden age of Hollywood he was one of the biggest stars at MGM, winning a lead actor Oscar as a washed-up boxer in the 1931 weepie “The Champ.”
Aug. 7, 2015
The house’s Streamline Moderne design reflects Beery’s love of aircraft and flying, with exterior horizontal ‘speed lines’ and wing-like pergola gates.
July 12, 2011
Wallace Beery’s former West Hollywood-area home is listed
Obituaries
Wallace Beery, the “lovable old rascal” of many a Hollywood film, is dead.
April 17, 1949
Entertainment & Arts
Referring to the 1930s in his new revue, Billy Barnes sings: “Life was cheerier, Wallace Beery-er.”
Jan. 12, 1996
Television
Wallace Beery stars in “The Lost World” (5 p.m.
July 20, 2001
The Aug. 15, 1939, premiere of “The Wizard of Oz” in Los Angeles was complete with Munchkins at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Sept. 21, 2018
Fast Fame
March 26, 2012