A Cloudy Temple of Treasure

Actors Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor lived in a beautiful Tudor Revival house at the edge of Beverly Hills since the 1970s. It’s a charming place with a little fairy garden in the back, a pool, and a secret room behind their royal red library.

Oh, yeah. And it used to be Shirley Temple’s house.

My Close Brush with Mary Pickford

Pickford in “Tess of the Storm Country” (1922). Photo courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

This past weekend, I went to the estate sale of Seymour Stein in the Hollywood Hills. I love going to estate sales in and around West Hollywood/Beverly Hills because you never know what Old Hollywood history you’re going to encounter.