‘Postcards’ Writer Edgy Over Upkeep
Actress-writer Carrie Fisher has put her Beverly Hills-area home, owned for many years by the late Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head, on the market at $4.25 million.
Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” trilogy before writing three novels, starting with “Postcards From the Edge” (1987), is a prolific script doctor as well.
She is “busy creating, and the house has a lot of land to keep up,” a source said. Fisher, 42, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, is also a single mother.
Her home, a four-bedroom hacienda plus two guest houses, is on 2.6 acres with a tennis court and pool. There is a courtyard where up to 600 people at a time have been entertained.
Fisher bought her home in 1993. Built in the early 1930s for actor Robert Armstrong, who co-starred with Fay Wray in “King Kong” (1933), the 4,200-square-foot home was on five acres before it was subdivided by Head, who died at 83 in 1981.
Head left the property to a charitable organization, which sold it to an architect in 1983.
June Scott of June Scott Estates, a Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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Fox Sports Channel on-air newscaster John Kelly has purchased a newly built townhouse in Westwood with Century City views for the asking price of $499,000.
Kelly, in his 30s, moved to L.A. from Chicago. His townhouse has three bedrooms, a loft and a family room in 2,300 square feet.
George Collins of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas, Beverly Hills, represented Kelly; Elaine Golden Gealer, in the New Homes Division of the firm’s Santa Monica office, had the listing.
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Emmy-winning producer Gary Smith, who produced the last three Democratic National Conventions and TV specials for such stars as Barbra Streisand, and his wife, Maxine, have listed their Beverly Hills-area home of 23 years at about $4 million.
The producer, a partner in Smith-Hemion Productions, and his wife, an interior designer, are planning to stay in the area. Their home was a former residence of singer-actress Julie Andrews and producer Blake Edwards.
Built in 1954, the Monterey colonial-style home, designed by architect Wallace Neff, has a 6,400-square-foot main house, with a media room and an 1,800-square-foot guest house.
The 1.4-acre grounds have a pool, waterfall, tennis court and viewing pavilion. The master suite, which occupies the entire second floor of the main house, has an exercise room and an office.
Linda May of Coldwell Banker Previews in Beverly Hills has the listing.
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