No More Horsin’ Around for Him
Actor TOM ARNOLD, whose sitcom “The Tom Show” was picked up in the fall for a full season on the WB Network, has put his horse ranch in the hills near Malibu on the market at $3.9 million.
He decided to sell the ranch to move closer to town, a source said.
Arnold was grand marshal of the 66th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade in late November. He and his ex-wife, Roseanne, were co-grand marshals of the 1992 Hollywood parade. They were divorced in 1994. Both remarried. He wed his current wife, Julie, in July 1995.
Arnold, who starred in two short-lived sitcoms and played a recurring character on “Roseanne” in the early ‘90s, appeared, to generally acclaimed reviews, in the movie “True Lies” (1994). He later appeared in “The Stupids” (1996) and “McHale’s Navy” (1997).
The horse ranch, on nearly 20 acres about eight miles from Malibu, has a Mediterranean-style, 10,000-square-foot house, newly built when Arnold bought the property in April 1995 for $2.5 million.
He has close to $4 million in the property, sources say. Among his additions is a full gym. Situated in a gate-guarded community, the ranch also has a tennis court, pool and long, private drive.
Raymond Bekeris of John Bruce Nelson & Associates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
BUZZ ALDRIN, the second man to set foot on the moon when he was part of Apollo 11’s three-man crew in 1969, has sold his one-bedroom condo just outside of Beverly Hills for $150,000, sources say.
Aldrin, 67, and his wife, Lois, maintain their primary home in the Orange County community of Emerald Bay.
The former astronaut, who has served as an aerospace consultant, now lectures around the world about the potential for developing the moon and Mars for tourism. He has written three books, including tHhe science-fiction novel “Encounter With Tiber.”
Aldrin had owned the 1,100-square-foot condo since 1989 but hadn’t used it much during the last few years, sources have said. The condo is in a 15-story tower built in the 1960s.
It was listed by Nancy Elkins Hinds and Miriam Burby, of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills.
STANLEY BEYER, former head of a company that owned Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co., and his wife, Lynn, have listed their Malibu home at $13.5 million. It was for sale in ’95 but was taken off the market and then re-listed.
The Beyers have a home in France where they would like to spend more time, sources have said.
The Malibu house, which took four years to build, was completed for the Beyers in 1983. It was designed as a sculpture surrounded by boulders by the late architect John Lautner, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first apprentices.
The 12,000-square-foot house, on a promontory with almost 400 feet of beach frontage, has four family bedrooms, a guest house and a staff wing with kitchen and dining areas. The home also has a gym, wine cellar and pool.
Jack Pritchett of Pritchett/Rapf & Associates, Malibu, has the listing.
A Hollywood home where OLIVER HARDY, the rotund half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy, lived during his most productive years in the late 1930s and 1940s, has been sold for close to its $350,000 asking price, sources say.
The 1,800-square-foot home, in the Cahuenga Pass area, was built in 1928 and has a three-bedroom main house plus a guest apartment.
The buyer is Paula Fontenot, who ran the West Coast office of Interview magazine for six years, is on the board of directors of Big Brothers and is involved with animal-rights organizations, a source said.
Hardy died in 1957 at the age of 65. His partner, Stan Laurel, died in 1965 at the age of 74. They teamed up in 1927 and then made about 200 comedy films.
Nancy Sill of John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer, and Sheila Dick, of the same office, had the listing.
“Rose Hedge,” a turn-of-the-century South Pasadena house owned for many years by the founder of the city of Torrance, has been sold to a local family for close to its $895,000 asking price, sources say.
The 12-bedroom, 13,000-square-foot house, with an indoor pool, chapel and organ loft, was built in 1904 at a cost of $25,000 for Emma B. Childs, widow of George W. Childs, editor of the Philadelphia Ledger. He was a noted philanthropist who wintered in Pasadena.
The Tudor Revival mansion was sold in 1910 to Jared Sidney Torrance, original owner and namesake of the city 19 miles southwest of downtown L.A. He planned the community in 1911 on 3,500 acres he owned.
Torrance was active in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, and this interest was reflected in the name of the house and in the pink roses hand-painted on the parlor ceiling.
“Rose Hedge,” which remained in Torrance’s family until 1931, had become known in recent years as “South Pasadena’s Mystery Mansion” because of its neglected appearance and vine-covered facade.
Last year, however, it was purchased by retired architect Ragnar Qvale, who designed the Wilshire Country Club, and his wife, Mollie.
The Qvales sold their longtime Hancock Park home and moved into the South Pasadena house, where they added new heating and electrical systems, repaired plaster and roof damage and repainted much of the interiors.
The Qvales were represented in their sale of “Rose Hedge” by Boyd S. Smith and Maggie W. Navarro of Coldwell Banker, Pasadena. The buyers were represented by Jackie Darling and Barbara Rogers of the same office.
LUTHER JAMES, a veteran theatrical director who was a production and programming consultant for Uganda TV in 1991 and a theater development consultant for Zimbabwe in 1988, has listed his Laurel Canyon home at $579,000.
James, in his 70s, was a producer on the “On Being Black” National Educational TV series of the ‘60s and worked as a writer on such ‘60s series as “Julia” and “Bewitched.” He also worked in production on “Mission: Impossible” and “Dr. Kildare.”
He and his wife, Thelma, have owned the three-bedroom house for about three years. It’s listed with Judy Martindale at DBL, Sunset Strip.
