Discovering Hollywood’s Homes of the Stars
Last night I attended an event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, which is located in the Lasky-DeMille Barn, said to be Hollywood’s Oldest Movie Studio. The Barn itself is a separate story that I’ll tell another day. Today I want to write about Mike Oldham, last night’s speaker, because his story is an inspirational story about following your passion.
The topic of the evening was “Movie Star Homes,” a subject on which Mike has written two books: Movie Star Homes: From the Famous to the Forgotten with co-author Judy Artunian and More Hollywood Homes. He began his remarks by explaining that his obsession began as a hobby ten years ago when he started collecting vintage postcards of movie star homes. The postcards featured watercolor drawings of the home and identified the star and the neighborhood (Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica), but some actually printed the star’s full address—something that would certainly give today’s stars pause.
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Most of us love going to the movies. Whether we are there to be entertained, enlightened, or to be exposed to other worlds, we love sitting in the darkened theater to “be told a new story.”
