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Old Posted Nov 8, 2016, 7:36 PM
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire View Post
A couple of theater marquees in recent shots here of '20s L.A. have featured some BIG names (before pictures got small, that is): Conrad Nagel at the Rialto on Broadway and Pauline Frederick at the Friday Morning Club's Playhouse on Figueroa. Here they
are together in Married Flirts, 1924:

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Their houses:

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Pauline built this house in 1918 on Sunset in Beverly Hills, now numbered 9419. She rented it to Irving Thalberg in the late '20s, and he married Norma Shearer there in 1928. Whatever house is now at this address is obscured by shrubbery, so I don't know if it's still the one Pauline built.


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Conrad's place at 715 N. Palm Drive, BH. It has either been replaced or is now unrecognizable. Either way it's a shame. I love these Los Angeles variations on American Colonial houses, often found in the Wilshire District. I posted the one at 111 S. Norton, a Three Stooges location still looking good, a while back.

Thalberg reference precipitated a directory search. The '21 and '22 CD lists Thalberg, who was then Universal's General Manager, residing at 3677 Wilshire Blvd. (GW's Wilshire blog discusses the address: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html) (By '23, Thalberg's residence was listed as 446 S. Norton and by '25, at 689 S. Bronson.) The Ambassador's construction and opening around the same time (1921) must have irrevocably impacted the area 's traffic and diminished the so-called residential quality of the neighborhood. Of course, as busy as Thalberg was, he may have barely spent any time at the address. Several sources have him residing at the Ambassador too.

1921 Ambassador
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Hotel_1921.jpg

Undated photo of general neighborhood.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009264.jpg
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