Landing in Beverly Hills Area

Mark Wahlberg, who starred as stranded astronaut Leo Davidson in the Tim Burton-directed “Planet of the Apes” and co-starred with Jennifer Aniston in the movie “Rock Star,” has purchased a Beverly Hills-area home for about $5 million.

The Mediterranean-style house, behind gates, has five bedrooms in slightly more than 9,000 square feet.

Built in the ‘80s, the home, on 1.4 acres, also has a theater with a projection room; an office, gym, pool, spa, pool house and tennis court.

Before he became an actor, Wahlberg, 30, performed for a short time with New Kids on the Block. He recorded albums as Marky Mark, and he toured with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Wahlberg was also a model for Calvin Klein underwear starting in 1992. In 1993, he got his first major acting job in a USA Network movie, “The Substitute.”

Since then, he has won critical praise for acting in such movies as “Boogie Nights” (1997), “Three Kings” (1999) and “The Perfect Storm” (2000).

He stars in the upcoming movie “The Truth About Charlie,” Jonathan Demme’s remake of “Charade” (1963), starring Cary Grant.

Matthew Lillard, who played a neurotic psychic in the movie thriller “13 Ghosts” and portrays Shaggy in the upcoming live-action film “Scooby-Doo,” and his wife, Heather, have put their Hollywood Hills home on the market at $695,000.

They are in escrow to buy a home in Pasadena.

Their Hollywood Hills house has three bedrooms and 1.75 bathrooms in about 1,770 square feet. The home also has a kitchen with barreled ceilings, a formal dining room and a living room with a fireplace and picture windows overlooking a yard with tropical landscaping.

The Spanish-style home, behind arched gates leading to a lush courtyard, was built in 1926 but was completely restored and updated recently.

The couple bought the home in the fall of 1999.

The actor, 31, gained fame as the murderous prankster Stuart in the movie “Scream” (1996). He was also in the teen comedy “She’s All That” (1999) and co-starred with Kenneth Branagh, Nathan Lane and Alicia Silverstone in the movie-musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (2000). “Scooby-Doo,” an adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera half-hour animated series “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” (1969-74), is due out in June.

Tara Wolper of Prudential John Aaroe Realtors, Studio City, has the listing.

Hollywood stunt driver-author Georgia Durante has listed her home in the Valley Village area of the San Fernando Valley at just under $1.2 million.

Durante is planning to scale down. She moved into the house in 1983, then proceeded to expand and work on it for more than a dozen years. Among her additions: a secret room and a tree house.

The nearly 4,500-square-foot house also has three bedrooms and three bathrooms; four fireplaces; a guest house, pool, spa and gazebo.

Durante, who heads the stunt-driving business Performance Two, was a sometime chauffeur for the Mob when she was a teen in New York, according to her 1998 memoir “The Company She Keeps.”

Before she became a stunt driver, she was also a model. Dressed in a blue and white polka-dot bikini, Durante, now in her early 50s, was known as the Kodak Summer Girl in the late ‘60s.

Jerry Berns and Myriam Wagner of Re/Max on the Boulevard, Encino, have the listing.

Bill Fay, executive producer of such movies as “Independence Day” (1996) and “The Patriot” (2000), and his wife, Jody, have listed their Beverly Hills home at just under $3.7 million.

The producer, 45, and his wife plan to acquire two smaller homes so they can divide their time between the city and the beach.

The Beverly Hills home, where they have lived for three years, has four bedrooms plus maid’s quarters and a guest room/office in about 6,500 square feet. Built in 1929, the Spanish-style hacienda has been restored and remodeled.

The home also has a courtyard with a fountain and a lanai with a fireplace. The living room has hand-hewn beamed ceilings, a grand fireplace and an adjoining parlor room. There is also a grassy yard with a pool.

David Kramer of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, has the listing.

The Lake Arrowhead estate where actor Cary Grant married Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in a six-minute ceremony in 1942 has been sold for $1.35 million, including a 1952 Chris Craft “woody” speedboat.

The estate had been owned by the same family since 1954.

Designed by architect Paul Williams, the five-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot house was built in 1935.

Situated on more than an acre of lakefront property, the estate includes an apartment over the garage, a dock directly in front of the house and a stone cabana featuring running water and a barbecue.

The buyer was described as a businessman who previously owned a lakefront home nearby.

George Schmitz of Lynne B. Wilson & Associates in Blue Jay had the listing.

Actress-director Jacqueline Britton, widow of Shakespearean stage actor Robert Burr, has purchased a two-bedroom, Studio City home for about $500,000.

Britton, who maintains a home in West Toluca Lake, bought the Studio City home as an investment property until she moves into it in two years. She recently sold her house in East Hampton, N.Y.

Burr, a Broadway actor who was once an understudy to Richard Burton, died in May 2000 at age 78.

Britton has performed in many regional theaters and directed the National Road Company of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.” She was also on the daytime drama “General Hospital” during the 1980s.

Rick Chimienti of DBL, Beverly Hills, represented Britton in her purchase.

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