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Hollywood Heights is a neighborhood in
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, bounded by the
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on the north, Highland Avenue on the east, Outpost Estates in the west, and Franklin Avenue on the south. It includes a number of notable historic homes and buildings and has been home to numerous people in the film and music industries, dating back to the
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.


History

Hollywood Heights is situated in what was the northern part of the
Rancho La Brea Rancho La Brea was a Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez by José Antonio Carrillo, the alcalde of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea consisted of one square l ...
Mexican land grant.
H.J. Whitley Hobart Johnstone Whitley (October 7, 1847 – June 3, 1931) was a Canadian-American businessman and real estate developer. Whitley is best known for helping create the Hollywood subdivision in Los Angeles. He is among those known as the "Father ...
developed the neighborhood as early as 1902 as part of his Hollywood-Ocean View Tract. In 2023, the
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gave Hollywood Heights official status as a Los Angeles neighborhood.


Notable places

The
Samuel Freeman House The Samuel Freeman House (also known as the Samuel and Harriet Freeman House) is a house at 1962 Glencoe Way in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles in California, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with a mixture of Islamic architectu ...
(1962 Glencoe Way) was designed by
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, supervised by
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, and furnished and expanded by Rudolph Schindler. Built in 1923, it is one of four
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s built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles between 1922 and 1924, and it has the world's first glass-to-glass corner windows. It was known as an avant-garde
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, and the list of individuals who spent significant periods of time there or lived in the house's two Schindler-designed apartments includes
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Xavier Cugat Xavier Cugat (; ; 1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was an American musician and bandleader who was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music. Originally from Girona, Spain, he spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba, before arriving i ...
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Rudi Gernreich Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich (August 8, 1922 April 21, 1985) was an Austrian people, Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposef ...
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Martha Graham Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped the dance world and is still taught in academies worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over s ...
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Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 ...
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Peter Krasnow Peter Krasnow (20 August 1886 – 30 October 1979), born Feivish Reisberg, was a modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy ...
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Bella Lewitzky Bella Rebecca Lewitzky (January 13, 1916 – July 16, 2004) was an American modern dance choreographer, dancer and teacher. Lewitzky was a lifelong advocate for artistic freedom in dance, and continuously pursued political and artistic objec ...
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Jean Negulesco Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian Americans, Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.Oliver, Myrna"Jean Negulesco 1900–1993 ''The Los Angeles Times'', 22 July 1993. He first gained notice for his Fi ...
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Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; 8 April 1892 – 16 April 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most ...
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Claude Rains William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was a British and American actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Supp ...
, Herman Sachs,
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, Olga Zacsek, and
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. It also served as an intellectual sanctuary for individuals blacklisted by the
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. It is on the
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. The High Tower (2178 High Tower Drive) is a five-story, over 100-foot-high tower housing a private elevator. It was built circa 1920 in the style of a Bolognese ''
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''. The tower provides access to a
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fourplex known as High Tower Court, built between 1935 and 1936. Architect Carl Kay designed both. The High Tower was featured in '' The Long Goodbye'', '' The High Window'', ''
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'', and a 1961 episode of '' Naked City''. It also leads to the Alta Loma Terrace neighborhood, which includes the Otto Bollman House – one of
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's first projects – and the B.A.G. Fuller House (6887 W. Alta Loma Terrace), which is a
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. Residents of the hillside enclave around the tower have included
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, and
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. The Yamashiro Historic District (1999 Sycamore Avenue) is listed on the
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and consists of nine buildings, including the Yamashiro restaurant. It was built between 1911 and 1914 as a residence by two brothers, Adolph and Eugene Bernheimer, and is said to be a replica of a 17th-century palace in
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in Japan. It has a 600-year-old pagoda imported from Japan. Many films and television shows have been filmed here, including ''
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, Joe Flynn, and
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lived in apartments on the grounds.
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(7001 Franklin Avenue) is a private nightclub for magicians and magic enthusiasts. It is the premier venue for magic in the United States and is the clubhouse for the
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. Originally constructed in 1909 as a
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mansion for banker, real estate developer, and philanthropist Rollin B. Lane, it is a
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.
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(2103 N. Highland Avenue) is on the
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. The Eagles'
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wrote "
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" in a bungalow here shared by
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and
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. The Villa Bonita (1817 Hillcrest Road) is a
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-style apartment building designed by architect Frank Webster and built in 1929. It is on the
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. Residents have included
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, Sarah Marshall,
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, and Jim Thompson.
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(6817 Franklin Avenue) was designed by Thomas P. Barber and built from 1927 to 1930. It is a
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. It is built on land that includes the location of
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and daughter
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's first home in Hollywood. American Legion Post 43 (2035 N. Highland Avenue) is a distinctive example of
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and Moroccan Art Deco architecture. Designed by Weston & Weston architects and completed in 1929, the building is a
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. Its members have included
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,
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, and
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. It served as the venue for Los Angeles' longest-running play, ''
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'', from 1984 to 1993. It has a 482-seat, state-of-the-art movie theater that was previously a live music venue played by groups including
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. The Hollywood Art Center School (2025-2027 N. Highland Avenue) is a
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. Originally built in 1904 for the artist Otto Classen as his residence and art studio, the estate was designed by famed architects Dennis & Farwell, who also designed the
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and
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. The Hollywood Art Center School operated at this location from 1950 to 2000.
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studied at the school. Las Orquideas Apartments (1901 N. Orchid Avenue), designed and built by
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in the late 1920s, are an example of
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meant to evoke an
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n village. A
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, its residents have included
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,
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Ray Heindorf Raymond John Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American composer and songwriter who was noted for his work in film. Early life Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a silent movie house in Mechanic ...
,
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, and
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. The DeKeyser Duplex (1911 N. Highland Avenue) was designed by Rudolph Schindler and completed in 1935. The Abraham Koosis House (1941 Glencoe Way) was designed by
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and completed in 1940. Koning Eizenberg's Hollywood Duplex (6947 and 6949 Camrose Drive) was built in 1990. The End of the Road (2042 Pinehurst Road) is the name
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gave to her home and was the title of her final book of poetry, published in 1940. The Franklin Garden Apartments (6917-6933 Franklin Avenue) were an example of
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. Built in 1920, they became a
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on June 7, 1978, but were demolished on July 1, 1978, to expand the
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's parking lot. The Shrader House (1927 N. Highland Avenue) was another example of
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. Designed by Mead & Requa and built about 1915, a committee of architects representing the
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selected it as one of the best small houses in Los Angeles; in its February 1920 issue, ''
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'' magazine called it one of the three best homes in Los Angeles. It operated as the Hollywood Wedding Chapel beginning in 1931.


Notable events

From February to April 1964, a ten-week standoff known as the "Siege of Fort Anthony" occurred between Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and a former Marine named Steven Anthony, who was armed with a shotgun and challenging an
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-based eviction from his home on Alta Loma Terrace. After Anthony's arrest, his home was razed to make room for the Hollywood Museum, which was never built, and parking for the Hollywood Bowl.
Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympatheti ...
had lived in the same house when she first moved to Hollywood. On July 1, 1969,
Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a Manson ...
shot a drug dealer named Bernard Crowe in the home of Charles "Tex" Watson's ex-girlfriend, Rosina Kroner, in the Franklin Garden Apartments. Crowe had threatened the Manson Family after being scammed out of $2500 by Watson. Crowe survived the shooting but did not report it to police. Ten years earlier, Manson had lived directly across the street at 6871 Franklin Avenue, in apartment 306 of what was then called the Bienvenue Hotel Apartments. At that time, he ran a bogus talent agency, 3-Star Enterprises, that also served as a front for a prostitution ring, and he was arrested twice in 1959 while living there. The
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in America was started in a house at 6861 Alta Loma Terrace. Its leader, Guru Maharaj Ji, spoke there in 1971 when he arrived in the United States from India at age 13. The band
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adopted its name while living in a small, two-bedroom house at 1902 N. Sycamore Avenue (just behind the
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) in 1986 while recording their first album, ''
Crowded House Crowded House are an Australian-New Zealand rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia, in 1985. Its founding members were Neil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Paul Hester (drums), who were both for ...
''.
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launched the band at a party at Yamashiro Restaurant, just up the street from the house. On February 22, 2001,
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discovered his girlfriend stabbed to death in her home on Pinehurst Road by a serial killer dubbed the Hollywood Ripper.


Schools

Residents are zoned to Gardner Street Elementary, Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School (which contains performing arts and STE a magnets), and
Hollywood High School Hollywood High School is a four-year public secondary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, located at the intersection of North Highland Avenue and West Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. His ...
in the
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. Hollywood Heights is also home to The Oaks School, a private elementary school (grades K-6) on the grounds of the
Hollywood United Methodist Church Hollywood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Its English Gothic architecture and the giant ...
.


Places of worship

Hollywood United Methodist Church Hollywood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Its English Gothic architecture and the giant ...


Transportation

The nearest
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station is Hollywood/Highland, on the B Line.


Notable residents

*
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and
Matt Damon Matthew Paige Damon ( ; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He was ranked among ''Forbes'' most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has received va ...
(actors and screenwriters) developed the script to ''
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'' in part while living at 1997 Glencoe Way in 1995. *
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(screenwriter, director, producer, and activist) lived in a bungalow at 6915 Camrose Drive when he wrote ''
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'', and
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subsequently purchased his home. *
Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States. Emerging as a teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he had his ...
,
Glenn Frey Glenn Lewis Frey (; November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American musician. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles, for whom he was the co-lead singer and frontman, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with ...
,
Don Henley Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947) is an American musician who is a founding member of the rock band the Eagles, for whom he is the drummer and co-lead vocalist, as well as its sole continuous member. Henley sang the lead vocals on Eagles ...
,
Linda Ronstadt Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music. Ronstadt has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three A ...
, and
JD Souther John David Souther (November 2, 1945 – September 17, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was "a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters". Souther wrote and ...
(musicians) developed the California Sound of the 1970s while neighbors in the area around High Tower and the
Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village The Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village is a grouping of Craftsman style bungalows located at the northwest corner of Highland and Camrose Avenues in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The bungalows were designed by the Taylor Brothers and Lee Ca ...
. *
Wilfred Buckland Wilfred Buckland (April 18, 1866 – July 18, 1946) was an American art director. Buckland worked as an art director with Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky, and later with Alan Dwan, from 1914 to 1927. He was Hollywood's first "art director" ...
(Hollywood's first art director) lived at several locations in the neighborhood, including a house he built a house at 1922 N. Sycamore Avenue as well as 1954 Pinehurst Rd. and 2035 Pinehurst Rd. Buckland designed and built the Las Orquideas Apartments on Orchid Avenue, once known as the Wilfred Buckland Bungalow Apartments. Buckland killed his disabled son and himself at their home on Pinehurst Road in 1946. *
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(writer) began writing ''
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'' while living at 2029 Pinehurst Road in 1934. *
Adriana Caselotti Adriana Elena Loretta Caselotti (May 6, 1916 – January 19, 1997) was an American actress and singer. Caselotti was the voice of the title character of the first Walt Disney animated feature, '' Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs'' (1937), for which ...
(the voice of
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in ''
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'') lived on Alta Loma Terrace from 1930-1975. *
Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – ) was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana (band), Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establis ...
and
Courtney Love Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades. She rose to promi ...
(musicians) lived at 6881 Alta Loma Terrace in the early 1990s when their daughter,
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, was born and briefly taken from their custody. They shared the home with
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drummer
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. Cobain wrote much of ''
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'' while living there. ''
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'' features scenes from the home. *
Michael Connelly Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of Detective fiction, detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and cr ...
(writer) lived at High Tower in the late 1990s while looking for inspiration for his novels. *
Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympatheti ...
(actress) lived at 6655 Alta Loma Terrace when she first moved to Hollywood in 1930. The house was later the focus of the "Siege of Fort Anthony" and was demolished. *
Robert Edeson Robert Edeson (June 3, 1868 – March 24, 1931) was an American film and stage actor of the silent era and a vaudeville performer. Life and career Edeson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of manager and actor George R. Edeson. After ...
(actor) lived at 2029 Pinehurst Road for seven years until his death in 1931. *
William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for William Faulkner bibliography, his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in fo ...
(writer) stayed in the Highland Hotel at 1921 N. Highland Avenue for extended periods of time in the 1940s while working as a screenwriter. *
Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 ...
,
Paul Hester Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for their last year together from December 1983 to December 1984, and co-founding member an ...
, and
Nick Seymour Nicholas More Seymour (born 9 December 1958) is an Australian musician and record producer. He is the founding bass guitarist and a mainstay of the rock group Crowded House, and is the younger brother of Mark Seymour, singer-songwriter-guitaris ...
(musicians) of the band
Crowded House Crowded House are an Australian-New Zealand rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia, in 1985. Its founding members were Neil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Paul Hester (drums), who were both for ...
lived at 1902 N. Sycamore in 1986 while recording their first album, ''
Crowded House Crowded House are an Australian-New Zealand rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia, in 1985. Its founding members were Neil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Paul Hester (drums), who were both for ...
''. * B.A.G. Fuller (philosopher) lived at 6887 Alta Loma Terrace for 24 years until his death in 1956. His house is a
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. *
Ray Heindorf Raymond John Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American composer and songwriter who was noted for his work in film. Early life Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a silent movie house in Mechanic ...
(composer) and
Arthur Lange Arthur Lange (April 16, 1889 – December 7, 1956) was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including '' Grand Canary'' and '' Woman on the Run''. Lange shared an Oscar nom ...
(bandleader) shared an apartment in Las Orchidas Apartments at 1903 Orchid Avenue in 1930. *
Carl Held Carl Held (born September 19, 1931), sometimes credited as Karl Held and Christopher Held, is an American actor who has worked extensively in both American and British television. Career Held is best known for his role as Garth in the 1980s s ...
and Sarah Marshall (actors) lived together in Villa Bonita until her death in 2014. *
Victoria Hochberg Victoria Greene Hochberg (born December 24, 1952) is an American film and television director and writer. She was one of the Original Six, a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America, ...
(director) is on the board of the Hollywood Heights Association. *
Carrie Jacobs-Bond Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s. She is perhaps best remembered for writing ...
(singer and songwriter) built a home at 2042 Pinehurst Road and lived there from 1917 until her death in 1946. The house was a salon for visiting art lovers and was the
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for her final book of poetry, ''The End of the Road''. *
Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a Manson ...
(criminal) lived and worked in an apartment at 6871 Franklin Avenue when he first moved to Hollywood in the late 1950s. A decade later, in 1969, he shot a man at the Franklin Garden Apartments directly across Orchid Ave. *
Seena Owen Seena Owen (born Signe Auen; November 14, 1894 – August 15, 1966) was an American silent film actress and screenwriter. Early life Born Signe Auen in Spokane, Washington, she was the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and K ...
(actress) lived at 6933 Camrose Drive the final 20 years of her life, until her death in 1966. *
Granville Redmond Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California American Impressionism, Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor with his friend Charlie Chapli ...
(artist and actor) lived at 2040 High Tower Drive and 2009 Pinehurst Road in the final years of his life. *
Lloyd Rigler Lloyd Eugene Rigler (May 3, 1915December 7, 2003) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Rigler and his partner Lawrence E. Deutsch made Adolph's Meat Tenderizer a national brand. His most notable philanthropic effort was the 1994 establ ...
(industrialist) lived at 2047 Pinehurst Road and was a major philanthropist in Hollywood. * E. Roscoe Shrader (artist) lived and worked at 1927 N. Highland Avenue while he was the dean of the
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and during his first two terms as president of the
California Art Club The California Art Club (CAC) is one of the oldest and most active arts organizations in California. Founded in December 1909, it celebrated its centennial in 2009 and into the spring of 2010. The California Art Club originally evolved out of The ...
. At his studio here, he formed the Group of Eight, which included artists such as
Mabel Alvarez Mabel Alvarez (November 28, 1891 – March 13, 1985) was an American painter. Her works, often introspective and spiritual in nature, and her style is considered a contributing factor to the Southern California Modernism and California Impressio ...
. *
Doug Timm Douglas Vernon Timm (June 14, 1960 – July 21, 1989) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many music scores, both in television and motion picture films. In a career which was cut short by a tragic event, he composed mus ...
(composer) was murdered in his home on Camrose Drive in 1989. *
Theo Wilson Theo Wilson (born Theodora Nadelstein, May 22, 1917 – January 17, 1997) was an American reporter best known for her coverage of high-profile court cases of serial killers, assassinations and radicals for the '' Daily News'' of New York inclu ...
(reporter) lived at 2041 Glencoe Way for 25 years until her death in 1997; the intersection of Glencoe Way and Camrose Drive bears her name. *
Morgan Woodward Thomas Morgan Woodward (September 16, 1925 – February 22, 2019) was an American actor who is best known for his recurring role as Marvin "Punk" Anderson on the television soap opera ''Dallas'' and for his portrayal of Boss Godfrey, the sungla ...
(actor) lived at 2111 Rockledge Road until his death in 2019.


References


External links


American Legion Post 43

Hollywood Heights Association

Yamashiro Restaurant

The Oaks School

Gardner Street Elementary

Bancroft Middle School

Hollywood High School
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