Links and Other Interesting Info
- Following is a link to the Web site of MATTHEW KENNEDY, who wrote a recent
Marie Dressler biography (a simply wonderful book!):
www.matthewkennedybooks.com
- And here is a link to another Marie Dressler Web site, where you can find a
wealth of info re/ Marie, the Canadian home she was born in (now a museum)
and the Marie Dressler Foundation, which each year puts on a film festival:
www.mariedressler.ca
- Check out MARILYN SLATER's great Web site, which is where the below pic of
Marie's home at 623 North Bedford Drive is from: Looking for Mabel Normand
- BOB SILER, formerly of Burbank, CA and now living in Portland, has put
together a "tour" of the various homes both Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
had lived in and following is that very interesting info:
THE WALLACE BEERY AND MARIE DRESSLER HOLLYWOOD TOUR
MARIE DRESSLER
1929
HILLSIDE AVENUE - HOLLYWOOD
Rented a house here until late 1929
6718 MILNER ROAD - WHITLEY HEIGHTS - HOLLYWOOD
In late 1929 she moved into this three year old, Spanish Mediterranean - style house.
1930 / 1931
623 NORTH BEDFORD DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
A year or so later she leased this ten room mansion from writer Adela Rogers St.
Johns.
1932
801 NORTH ALPINE DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
She bought this house from the estate of King Camp Gillette and lived in it from late
1932 until her death in 1934.
1934
ALSTON ROAD - MONTECITO, SANTA BARBARA
She was staying here in the guest cottage on the estate of her friend, C. K. G. Billings
when she died on July 28, 1934. She had been living here for the last three months of
her life.
OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE SHE IS SAID TO HAVE LIVED:
6809 IRIS COURT - HOLLYWOOD
THE ALTO NIDO
1851 IVAR AVENUE - HOLLYWOOD
Was originally the property of Marie Dressler
FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK, GLENDALE
SANCTUARY OF BENEDICTION - GREAT MAUSOLEUM
She is in the same sanuctary as Red Skelton, lawyer to the stars Jerry Giesler, Jean
Harlow and Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer
WALLACE BEERY
1916
ALVARADO STREET - LOS ANGELES
The Beery family home where his parents and brothers, Noah and William lived. Beery
and his young wife, Gloria Swanson lived here shortly after getting married.
206 W. 10th STREET - LOS ANGELES
THE ST. FRANCIS APARTMENTS
With Gloria Swanson
1917 - 1918
ECHO PARK AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
With Gloria Swanson
1163 N. MARIPOSA AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
He and Swanson lived in the same bungalow court with his brother William from 1917
to around September 1918 when she threw him out. They soon divorced.
1920
1157 N. MARIPOSA AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
Beery and brother Noah were living here with their parents
1920s
NORTH CAHUENGA BLVD - LOS ANGELES
Beery was living on this street
1924
2323 LORENZO DRIVE - LOS ANGELES
1930
2210 N. BERKELEY AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
Was living here
VALLEY BLVD - ALHAMBRA, CA.
On March 24 Beery's plane crashed into a creek near Valley Blvd, east of Alhambra.
His two pilots, George Naves and Lynn Hayes were killed, as was Naves wife,
Cynthia. Beery was supposed to have been on the flight, but canceled. Hayes was his
second pilot.
GEORGE AND CYNTHIA NAVES
1133 GARDEN AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
They were living here at the time of their deaths
LYNN HAYES
1933 SELBY AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
Was living here at the time of his death
1936
1346 HARPER AVENUE - LOS ANGELES
Built for Beery by William Kesling
1930s
921 NORTH ROXBURY DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
1940's
816 NORTH ALPINE DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
Noah Beery died here in Wally's arms on April 1, 1946. On April 15, 1949 Beery died
here.
SILVER LAKE, HIGH SIERRAS
Beery built a two - story Lake Cabin here. In the 1930s it was demolished by an
avalanche of snow.
FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK - GLENDALE
VALE OF MEMORY, LOT 2086
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