One of Bela's former homes just sold for a pretty penny. I believe this is my dreamhouse.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/03/bela_lugosis_beachwood_mansion_flipped_for_4197_million.php (http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/03/bela_lugosis_beachwood_mansion_flipped_for_4197_million.php)
I would've purchased it for you (I hate beamed ceilings but you would've over looked it) but we didn't win the lotto yet. ;)
Nice, but 4 million nice? Nawwwww....... :-\
Quote from: Monster Bob on March 28, 2014, 03:28:21 PM
Nice, but 4 million nice?
Remember, this is LA, not the Midwest.
Quote from: Flower on March 28, 2014, 06:26:50 AM
I would've purchased it for you (I hate beamed ceilings but you would've over looked it) but we didn't win the lotto yet. ;)
I love beamed ceilings.....Nancy hates them. I want to do the master bedroom in gothic, but how can you do that without beamed ceilings? Sheesh
I can picture Bela living there. 'Interesting article. Thanks for posting this! 8)
To tell the truth, I think I preferred what it looked like before the flippers got to it. All light and airy it not how I envision a 1920s Tudor house. Hopefully the price includes the furniture. That could be sold to recoup some of the expense and then it could be redecorated. Come on! a cow hide throw rug? What is this? Old Tucson?
Something troubles me in the first sentence: "Bela Lugosi moved around a lot in the 1930s and '40s, but from 1936 to 1937, he supposedly hung his cape here in this house, built in 1926 and situated on nearly a third of an acre in Beachwood Canyon."
Didn't anyone do a title history search on this place? "Supposedly" is one of those weasel words that allows spectacular claims, that when someone doubts it or proves it false, allows the claimant to back out saying they never really lied.
Civil records aside, I'm sure he lived there.
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/46/dc4w.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/1adc4wj)
And why did he live there only one year?
According to the original story, back when it cost "only" $2.36 million said he lived there longer and later.
"Bela Lugosi was obviously quite secure in his typecasting; he didn't need to go living in a Schindler to prove a point. You could certainly picture some dramatic lightning striking above this 1926 house in Beachwood Canyon, where Lugosi lived in the forties, according to the Movieland Directory."
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/04/bela_lugosis_latelife_house_in_beachwood_canyon_now_a_fixer.php (http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/04/bela_lugosis_latelife_house_in_beachwood_canyon_now_a_fixer.php)
According to the Movieland Directory, there are 18 addresses associated with Lugosi.
http://www.movielanddirectory.com/star.cfm?star=54206 (http://www.movielanddirectory.com/star.cfm?star=54206) They count 19, but I doubt he lived at his star on Hollywood Blvd.
Fester, we are in complete mind meld on the post flip sissification of the manse. But that can be rectified my friend.
And that is why there is Lowes and Home Depot!
Gotta un-blondify those beams! ;D
I wonder if Bela jr. can shed some facts about this house. Maybe he has documents, papers or even old mail dated and addressed to his father at that address.