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Beach home of Cary Grant, Santa Monica, California
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Beach home of Cary Grant, Santa Monica, California
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Description
Identifier
clloy_006
Title
Beach
home
of
Cary
Grant
,
Santa
Monica
,
California
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
1941
Subject (Topic)
Beaches--California
;
Celebrities--California--Santa
Monica--Dwellings
;
Subject (Name)
Grant
,
Cary
,
1904-1986--Homes
and
haunts
;
Subject (Place)
Santa
Monica
(Calif.)
;
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Western
Publishing
&
Novelty
Co
.
Place of Publication
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.
Language
eng
Description
Exterior
view
looking
toward
the
Pacific
Ocean
of a
beach
front
home
once
occupied
by
Cary
Grant
. There
is
a
picture
of
Cary
Grant
in a
circle
in the
upper
right
corner
.
Historical Background
In the
early
twentieth
century
, the
Santa
Monica
Land
and
Water
Company
began
to
sell
lots
on the
beach
to the
general
public
, and
residential
neighborhoods
began
to
spring
up
along
Santa
Monica
Bay
. As the
1920s
motion
picture
industry
created
newly-wealthy
movie
stars
,
producers
, and
directors
,
Hollywood
celebrities
began
buying
homes
on the
beach
.
Santa
Monica
quickly
became
known
as "The
Gold
Coast
" for its
richly
extravagant
residences
.
1038
Ocean
Front
in
Santa
Monica
was
built
by
Los
Angeles
architect
Paul
Roe
Crawley
for the
silent
film
actress
Norma
Talmadge
. The
Norman
style
home
was
completed
in the
summer
of
1929
. In the
mid
1930s
,
Talmadge
sold
the
house
to
Cary
Grant
,
where
he
lived
for
many
years
with
actor
Randolph
Scott
.
Scott
later
moved
out
after
Grant
married
Woolworth
heiress
Barbara
Hutton
.
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: 1B-H1017; Series number: 819
Additional Notes
Date
from
publisher's
serial
number
;
Printed
on
linen
textured
paper
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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