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2235 Actress, and bride of three months, Mrs. Helen St. Clair Evans, 22, killed herself in her court apartment at 2235 N. Cahuenga Boulevard on June 7, 1927. Her husband, Arthur St. Clair Evans, a screenwriter, told police that she had taken poison after a quarrel. While he was working hard trying to complete a scenario, she asked him to take her out to show and he said no. They argued, after which she went out to a movie by herself. When she returned, she went into the bathroom and swallowed poison. Police ruled her death a suicide and the case was closed. In February, 1928, Helen's parents supplied new information to police that suggested that Arthur murdered Helen. Arthur was arrested at his new home at 518 Westmoreland. In April, a Coroner's jury ruled that Helen ended her own life and was not murdered.
Where is She Now? Helen was buried in New York. 10 months later, Arthur married Iris Ashton Badger.

2580 The body of a Devon Marie Green 24, was found in the parking lot of the John Anson Ford Theatre at 2580 N. Cahuenga Blvd. on April 8, 1981. She was a chef at a Newport Beach restaurant and the daughter of a San Francisco attorney. The last time Miss Green was seen was when she dropped off her mother at the L.A. Airport. Two days later her body was found partially clothed, in the parking lot. Preliminary reports said that she died from a blow to the liver.

6815 Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Perez of 6815 Cahuenga Park Trail, served a one-day sentence in jail in 1958, for allowing their 16-year-old son to violate a city curfew when he was out on the streets without supervision after 10 p.m.

6533 Marie Fontayne, 22, owner of a "Hollywood modeling school, was arrested in her home at 6533 Cahuenga Terrace on March, 1933 for promising steady jobs to several Hollywood girls. She was charged with grand theft bunko and petty theft. One girl told police that she paid a $35 tuition fee to Fontayne and enrolled at the school at 6560 Hollywood Boulevard on the understanding that she was to be given a job as a model at $5 to $8 a day when she completed the course, but she never got any jobs. The school's files showed that more than 150 girls had taken the phony course since January 1933.

6533 Eighteen-months-old Katherine Wendelsmith, daughter of Wendell Wendelsmith, accidentally suffocated beneath the blankets of her crib in her home here at 6533 Cahuenga Terrace in April, 1940.

6533 Film executive, Bernard Williams was renting a 20-room mansion here at 6533 Cahuenga Terrace from Hollywood cafe owner, Nick Tsoneff, in January, 1946, when Tsoneff tried unsuccessfully to evict him. The home was reported to have once belonged to Rudolph Valentino.

6614 Writer Owen Frances, 34, was living at 6614 Cahuenga Terrace in November, 1932, when his companian, Lydia Thornblade, drove her car into the door and wall of the La Boheme Cafe at 8614 Santa Monica. Both were charged with being drunk.

1725 In September, 1951, Actor Nick Cravat and six other people were arrested at 1725 Camino Palermo by the vice squad in the home of Mrs. Margaret Smith for gambling in a poker game. Cravat was fined $10 and Mrs. Smith $25. John Fairbanks, half-brother of actor Douglas Fairbanks built the home in 1919. The general manager of the Douglas Fairbanks Studios, he died here in January 1923. Author Alice Catt Armstrong was living here in 1950. Founder of the Who's Who in Society in Los Angeles blue books, she originated the idea for widows or divorcees to wear their wedding band on their right hand. Her son, actor Gary Olyn Armstrong, lived here with her. He was voted "America's All American Boy and "Mr. Hollywood Jr." while living here. The Camino Palermo Apartments were on the site in the 1990s.
Where is CravalNow? Cravat died in 1994 at age 82, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.

1835 Mrs. Julia A. McAvoy, of 1835 Camino Palermo, mother of actress May McAvoy, was severely burned by the explosion of gas escaping from a water heater in May 1928. Smelling the odor of gas coming from the basement, she bent over the heater and was blinded by a flash of fire. This was followed by an explosion which threw her violently against the wall, her clothing in flames. Belle Fay, the housekeeper, smothered the flames with coal sacks. May, who lived here with her mother, was the first actress to reign as the Queen of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena. In 1926, she appeared in the classic film Ben Hur and in 1927, she was Al Jolson's leading lady in the history-making first talkie The Jazz Singer. In September, 1934, May, who was still living here when she was fined $2 for having improper license plates on a used car that she had purchased. The home was still there in 1986.
Where is She Now? May died on April 26, 1984 at age 85 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

1847 In June, 1929, 21-year-old Marion Fitzmaurice, was found walking aimlessly at Fairfax and Selma in a dazed condition. She told police that she could not find her way home and mentioned the name of C.E. Toberman of 1847 Camino Palermo. Toberman told police that she had been his ward until she became 18, when due to a nervous condition, he placed her in the care of Doctor Cora Jones at 1441 Fairfax Avenue. Jones said the she and Fitzmaurice had gone to a show that evening and after returning home, they sat up late talking. After retiring, she said that Fitzmaurice must have been seized with another nervous spell and wandered out. Toberman took her back in his home here and placed her under the care of trained nurses.
Where is He Now? Toberman, a Hollywood pioneer and real estate developer, died in 1981 at age 101. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in the Abbey of the Psalms, Crypt #4, Room E, Building G-9.

6850 Mrs. Marion Corcoran was found dead hanging by her neck from a hook in a small closet in her home at 6850 Camrose Drive in November 1926. Police believed she had went into the closet about 4 p.m., and hacked and tore the two bands off of her apron, which she formed a noose with a hard knot. She placed the knot under her neck and then suspended herself from a clothes hook. Her husband told police that Marion still suffered from depression which began six months before with the successive deaths of their three small children, one of whom had died after eating some kind of poison he had found while playing around the house.

6857 Actress Betty Healy, 26, wife of comedian Ted Healey, was arrested fin her home at 6857 Camrose Drive in August 1941, for driving while drunk.
Where is She Now? She died of cancer in 1975 in Victorville, California at age 79.

6906 Actress Sigrid Gurie was named as a defendant in Municipal Court in March, 1938 by her former landlady who testified that Gurie and her husband subleased a furnished apartment at 6906 Camrose Drive for six months in September of 1937, and owed $200 for the last two months of the lease. Gurie told the court that she and her husband had separated four months after they moved in and they did not intend to pay the last two months rent.
Where is She Now? Gurie died in Mexico of a blood clot in her lungs on August 14, 1969 at age 58.

6933 Actress Seena Owen lived here in the 1940s. She is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924, when film director and producer Thomas Ince died there under mysterious circumstances. She made fifty-three films between 1915 and 1929.
Where is She Now? She died in 1966 in Hollywood, at age 71 and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in the Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Refuge #2130.

69?? Douglas Timm, 29, a TV music composer was stabbed to death in his rented home in the 6900 block of Camrose Drive on July 27, 1989. His body was found at the bottom of a stairwell. A week later, Riverside police arrested Juanito Purugganan and his wife Michelle, 20, driving through Riverside in Timm's sports car. Timm, who lived alone, but was engaged, had invited the Purugganans to his home following a "chance meeting" in Hollywood. Police said that the couple killed Timm "for the purpose of" robbery. They took stereo equipment and Timm's black 1987 Toyota MR-2 sports car, and fled with their children, a 2-year-old and a 10-month-old infant. Timm had won awards for themes of Simon & Simon, Dolphin Cove, and The New Dirty Dozen.".

1937 In November, 1995, photographer Charles Rathbun was living at 1937 N. Canyon Drive when he hired model and former L. A. Raider cheerleader, Linda Sobek, 27, to pose for him in a photo shoot. Rathburn, whose photos often appeared in sports car magazines, told her they were going to the desert where he would take photos of her in a sports utility vehicle. Soon after they arrived in the desert, he raped and killed her, then buried her body. After several days of investigation, police arrested Rathbun, who, under questioning, admitted that he had taken her to the desert, where he said he accidentally ran over her while trying to demonstrate a high-speed turn. He said he panicked and buried the body in a remote gully in the Angeles National Forest. On the ninth day after she was killed, he led police to her shallow grave. The coroner's report revealed that Sobek was raped and had died from asphyxiation that could have been consistent with someone sitting on her chest and strangling her manually.
Where is He Now? Rathbun was convicted of murder and rape, and sentenced to life in prison.

2001       In January, 1916, Thomas Thorkildsen, "The Borax King," bought oilman Louis McCray's mansion and five acres at 2100 N. Canyon Drive for $70,000. He and his wife Selina gave many parties here for their wealthy and famous friends. During one of those wild parties in June, 1918, Dalton Bolton, 37, general manager of the local Chevrolet Motor Car Company, drowned in the estate's huge outdoor swimming pool. Shaped like an artificial lake, it was four feet deep in the shallow end and 20-feet in the deep end. Bolton, who couldn't swim, ventured too far toward the deep end and even with the help of Mrs. Thorkildsen and two female guests, they couldn't save him.
       When Thomas and Selina divorced in 1920, the hearings made sensational headlines everyday. The hearings were an education in the lavish use or champagne, Scotch highballs, cocktails and Burgundy as accounts of drinking bouts and sex orgies were detailed by witnesses. Thomas accused Selina of infecting him with a venereal disease and she testified that its was he that infected her. At the end of the hearings, the judge commented that in over 28 years at the bar and on the bench, he had never known the air of a courtroom to be burdened with such a mass of shocking and unprintable testimony. "For four weeks we have heard from the witness stand, things of which one would hardly think in the secret recesses of our souls, without turning out the lights and locking the doors."
       He awarded Selina $30,000 in cash and $15,000 a month in 60 monthly payments. He said that there were no acts of cruelty between them except for the transmission of diseases as both were inordinate consumers of alcohol and wallowed in the same trough. Thorkildsen, who founded the famous "20-mule-team" Sterling Borax plant in Lang, California, lost his home, his mine and most of his money in 1923. The depression took what he had left. His former estate on Canyon Drive was subdivided.after WWII.
Where is He Now? Thorkildsen died alone and forgotten in a La Puente nursing home in 1950.

2340 Actress Ona Munson was sued in November, 1943 by her neighbor, film official, Sidney Clifford, who complained that since Munson had a retaining wall built on her property at 2340 N. Canyon Drive, water had carried top soil onto his property and was making an unhealthy situation.
Where is She Now? Munson, who received a 1939 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in "Gone With the Wind." committed suicide with sleeping pills in her New York apartment in 1955 at age 49. She left a note that read: "This is the only way I know to be free again. Please don't follow me." She is buried in the Ferncliff Cemetery Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York in Unit 8, tier Y, columbarium G, niche 5

2422 John Reid, 61, a finance company executive, was found dead in his garage at 2422 N. Canyon Drive in December, 1940. Death was from exhaust fumes from his car. No notes were found.

2639 Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr and her husband, dancer-actor, Paul Valentine of 2639 N. Canyon Drive, were living here in 1949 when Valentine filed for divorce. He told the judge "That everybody in the country could see more of her than I could. The only way I could see her was to get her an engagement in our home. And when she was here she was antisocial. She would not listen to the radio unless it was Jack Benny. My friends were not welcome at our home. She would lock herself in her room until his guests left." Under a property settlement, Lili got the title to the house if she kept up the payments and Valentine could live here for two years. In 1952, burglars broke into the house and stole Lili's $10,000 mink coat. On October 30, 1958, Lili tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide in the house by taking sleeping pills. She was living here in August, 1963 with her husband MGM special effects man, Joseph Zomar, when burglars broke in again and stole $10,000 of her possessions including a fur coat and two wigs.
Where Are They Now? Lili died alone and forgotten in her Hollywood apartment in 1999 at age 80. Cremated, the location of her ashes are unknown. Her last years were spent with her cats in mysterious seclusion. Valentine died in 2006 at ge 87.

2650 Importer James Yao, 31, of 2650 Carmen Crest Drive was arrested in October, 1954, and charged with grand theft and issuing a worthless $4925 check. Police investigation revealed that Yao had gone bankrupt in September owing creditors $113,000, and that he had squandered the proceeds from $250,000 worth of jewelery on La Vegas blackjack and crap tables. On November 5, Carlotta Barry, 57, wife of a business associate of Yao's was found dead here in the entryway of her $60,000 home. An autopsy showed that she died of natural causes. In January, 1955, Yao, who lived here in the Barry home, was found innocent on all counts.

1040 On October 31, 1946, night Club hostess Jacqueline Sitter, 25, of 1040 N. Carol Drive, complained to police that actor-radio announcer Robert Carson, brother of actor Jack Carson, beat her unconscious here in her apartment. She later filed a $10,000 battery suit against Carson and was awarded a substantial amount.
Where is He Now? Carson died in 1979 in Atascadero, California, at age 70.

1047 Jack Weiner, 30, was arrested in March, 1940, for operating a book making establishment in his home at 1047 N. Carol Drive.

156 Ex-welterweight fighter Joe Benjamin, a former protege of Jack Dempsey showed up here at the home of his ex-wife, actress Marian Nixon at 156 N.Citrus Avenue on February 25, 1927. and threatened her and her brother-in-law, Howard Hodges with a gun. He fired several shots and broke windows in the house with a heavy cane. He was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Charges were dropped on the 29th when Miss Nixon and Hodges withdrew their complaint.
Where is She Now? Nixon died in Los Angeles from complications after surgery in 1983 at age 78. She is buried in .Forest Lawn Glendale in the Garden of Honor, Columbarium of Honor (locked area).

516 When German actress Renate Roeder left her home at 516 N. Citrus Avenue, on December 31, 1940, she told her aunt, Mrs. Millie Rosenssock, that she was going to stay a few days with friends. Instead she checked into one of Hollywood's most exclusive hotels and before going to bed on New Year's Eve, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. She was found unconscious and near death the next morning and rushed to the General Hospital where she survived the effects of the sleeping pills. Two notes were found on the dresser in the hotel room of the young actress. One addressed to Harry Rosenssock of New York read: "Dear Uncle Harry: I am sorry that I Had to do this, but I loved my parents so much that I can't live without them. I hope you will understand and forgive me and I want to thank all of you for everything you did for me. Don't be sorry about it, I know it is the only thing for me to do." In a note addressed to the police read: "I commit suicide because I lost my parents the same in Vienna and I cannot live without them. I got the Veronal from my doctor after I left the hospital pretending that I was suffering from constant insomnia I promised him that I would take only one at a time. I want all my clothes, furs and jewelery to be sold and the money given to German refugees and orphans. I also want my furniture, carpets and pictures in New York to be sold and the money given for the same purpose." According to her aunt, Miss Roeder came to Hollywood in February 1940 from New York to try to get into the movies but could not find work. At the hospital, she told the doctor that she had been despondent over the suicide of her parents during the Hitler purge in Vienna. On January 8, she was released from the hospital and taken to a rest home.

617 Edwin Davis, 52, his wife Merle and his 11-year-old daughter Jean, moved from Chicago into a small bungalow at 617 N. Citrus Avenue in October, 1933. A month later, on November, 7, while his daughter was at school and his wife was in the front part of the house, he went to a playhouse he had built for his daughter in the backyard and shot himself in the head. His wife told police that he had lost his position as vice president of a Chicago company several months before, and was unable to find another job.

829 Objecting to being called "The most recent bride of Pat Somerset," English actor, famed for his many marriages, actress Rosamond Wynne of 829 N. Citrus Avenue, decided not to allow this reference to go unchallenged and in May, 1928, she consulted her attorney as to her rights. According to Miss Wynne, she attended a reception for Somerset at which she and several other people happened to appear in a photo with Somerset. When the photo appeared in a newspaper the next day, she was identified to the world as the wife and bride of Somerset. She told her attorney that she only met Somerset two or three times and did not care to be announced as his new bride.
Where is He Now? Somerset, one of the charter members (and charter officers) of the Screen Actors Guild, died in Apple Valley, California. in 1974 at age 77.

1229 On September 18, 1956, actor Don Covert of 1229 N. Citrus Avenue, was threatened with a pistol by Barbara Ann Burns, daughter of comedian Bob Burns (See 8035 Wonderland Ave. for more details)

1234 Abe Kasviner, 40, of 1234 N. Citrus Avenue leaped from the sixth floor of the Wilshire Medical Building in September 1927 – and survived. He jumped from a back window into the building's parking lot. Plummeting toward the ground, face up, he hit on his back on a parked car. Still conscious, he suffered only a fractured right arm and bruises. A former wealthy produce merchant, Kasviner, known as the "Potato King," lost his fortune in the 1929 stock market crash.

923 When Steffi Skolsky married Leonard Grant in 1960, one of their wedding gifts was a silver cigarette box from Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller. In April, 1962, Steffi, daughter of columnist Sydney Skolsky. divorced Grant. When the Grants divided their property, the cigarette box went to Grant. After Marilyn died in August, 1962, Steffi asked Grant to let her have the box, but Grant said no. In 1963, Steffi who was living at 923 N. Clark Street, went to court over the matter. The judge ordered that she be given the box.

1013 Driving her psychiatrist's sports car at 90 m.p.h. in a 25-mile zone, actress Claire Ann Kelly, 21, of 1013 N. Clark Street, was arrested on March 13, 1956 after a wild chase along Sunset Blvd. and into the Hollywood Hills. When overtaken by a police officer, she said, "I just wanted to see how fast the car would go." Her psychiatrist told police that he had been treating her for a nervous disorder and that speeding served as a release for her pent-up emotional stress. The judge sentenced her to five days in the County Jail. Divorced from comedian George Dewitt, she claimed that he was a fine comic on TV, but he was no laughs around the house. She was awarded custody of their son. In 1959, she was called "the screen's most exciting discovery since Rita Hayworth." The same year, her ex-husband George DeWitt accused her in court of "adulterous, immoral and scandalous conduct" with Frank Sinatra, band leader Perry Lopez, and hotel chain heir Nicky Hilton. She refused to answer on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment. DeWitt was given custody of their son.
Where Are They Now? Kelly died in Palm Springs in 1998 at age 64. DeWitt, best known as the emcee of the hit TV show "Name That Tune." died in 1978 at age 56.

1125 While sitting in the front room of her apartment at 1125 N. Clark Street in August, 1936, actress Ruby Loraine, wife of author Rupert Grayson, was hit in the face with a gun barrel when she resisted the advances of a prowler. She suffered face wounds and shock.

1148 Tommy Cook, maitre d' at the Innkeeper Restaurant at 826 N La Cienega, was arrested in his home at 1148 N. Clark Street in November, 1968 for for pimping and pandering. Actress Sharon Tate once lived here in the 1960s

8601 Mrs. Orlene Wilson, 48, shot herself in the heart in her home at 8601 Clifton Way in March, 1935.

7660 When Mrs. W.A. Graham of 7660 Clinton Street stopped her car at a traffic stop at Wilshire and Kingsley in January, 1952, a man approached the car and asked for a lift. When she refused, he pulled a gun and jumped in the car. He forced her to drive to Tenth and Irolo, where he choked her and beat her with his fists before throwing her out and driving away with her purse and a century-old-silver urn, a family heirloom.

8115 Maxwell Cox, 47, former New Jersey Bank vice president, was arrested at his home at 7660 Clinton Street in February, 1932, on a charge of the embezzlement of $11,000 from his bank. Also arrested was Marie Marx, the wife of a military aide of the Governor of Ohio.

626 Mrs. Freda Crouch of 626 South Cloverdale Avenue was given a jaywalking ticket at 7th and Broadway in downtown L.A. in April 1941. When she started across the street against the light,– the traffic cop blew a warning to her with his whistle. No effect. He blew the whistle the second time as loud as he could. The blast made everybody jump – except Mrs. Crouch.. When she declined to retrace her steps and refused to sign a jaywalking ticket, the cop went to a nearby telephone and told the station to "Send a rowdy-cart." At Central Station, Mrs. Crouch, 50, still refused to sign the citation but eventually accepted the ticket and left.

638 Sol Turkin, 39, a produce merchant of 638 South Cloverdale Avenue, was killed in his apartment in June, 22, 1947, on the night before he was to be married to Sylvia Schermer, a schoolteacher. About 1 a.m., a neighbor told police that he heard loud arguing coming from Turkin's apartment, then four shots rang out. One bullet tore through the wall of the neighbor's apartment. Found near his body was a wedding license and a wedding ring. It was later learned that Turkin had a police record and had been convicted of grand larceny, fraud and impersonating an officer for which he had spent three years in Leavenworth. Police had no suspects as to who had killed him.

1089 Former child actor Tom Conlon, 24, of 1089 Cloverdale Avenue, tried to take his own life at his home in February 1940. His mother saved him when she found him in the closed garage with the engine of the family car running. Later, he left home and checked into the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where police found him in his room with his wrists slashed with a razor. He was taken to the Hollywood recieving hospital and treated, then released to his father, writer William Conlon, who placed him in care of a private physician. In June, 1936, Conlon, then 20, was stabbed in the stomach in a fight outside the Boos Cafeteria at 436 S. Hill. Since then, he had undergone several operations and was concerned about his health. The son of a stage actor, Tommy Conlon was one of the less known Our Gang kids, but he did appear in supporting roles in six films in 1932-1933 –- then nothing. He was the Christian boy tortured and cruelly thrown to the lions in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Sign of the Cross" in 1932. He had uncredited appearances in the films "Honky Tonk" in 1941 and in "Reap the Wild Wind" in 1942 (his last film).
Whatever Happened to Him? Conlon later became a film editor.

717 Mrs. Hannah Weitz of 717 South Cochran Avenue complained to police that her 83-year-old uncle, Thomas Long, beat her over the head with a hammer in her home in June, 1934. She sued Long for $25,000 in damages.

740 John Sonnenberg, 35, of 740 South Cochran Avenue, murdered his wife Carol by stabbing her to death at her apartment at 1553 Ewing in September, 1957,. After the stabbing, Sonnenberg returned to his home, changed his bloody clothes and fled. Mrs. Sonnenberg had told police a month before she was killed that her husband had threatened her after they separated, but the City Attorney's office refused to issue a complaint.

909 When Charles Grant Westcott, 63, opened his front door of his home at 909 South Cochrane Avenue in response to the ring of the doorbell on Ocober 20, 1926, two shots rang out and he fell to the floor mortally wounded as his wife entered the room. Just before he died, he told his wife "John did it." Westcott's son Carl, 40, was arrested. Police learned that the two had had a month long dispute after Carl learned he had been left out of his father's will. Charles, a distant relative of General Grant, was reported to be worth $300,000. Carl's trial was called the "Mustard Seed Murder" because mustard seeds from a vacant lot next door to the Westcott home, were found in the cuffs of his trousers.
Where is He Now? Carl was found guilty of killing his father and was sentenced to serve the remainder of his life in the Folsom State penitentiary.

1810 On February 7, 1971, Los Angeles television sportscaster Stan Duke, 34, shot and killed radio commentator Averill Berman, 51, in the home of Duke's estranged wife Faye, 33. Duke, one of the few black newsmen in Los Angeles, appeared on the 11:15 p.m. newscast then came to his wife's apartment at 1810 South Cochrane Avenue where he saw his wife and Berman, a caucasian, in the bedroom together. He left and went to his apartment , got a hunting rifle, returned, forced entry, beat his wife and shot Berman through the closed door of the bedroom closet where he was hiding. When police arrived at the two story duplex, Berman was dead. The two guns were lying on the lawn, and Duke was sitting quietly on the front steps, waiting. He told police, "I just shot my wife's boyfriend. I caught her in bed with him." Berman was found in the doorway of the bathroom. A rifle shot had mangled his right arm and a pistol bullet had hit him in the heart. Duke was found guilty of second-degree murder and was sentenced to five years to life in prison. He was paroled three years later.
Where is He Now? Duke died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara in March, 2007 at age 70.

8482 Actress MacKenzie Phillips was on the way back from her honeymoon in Hawaii in 1979 when a fire broke out in her home at 8482 Colecrest Drive. She and her husband Jeff Sessler, rushed from Los Angeles International Airport to the house, but arrived only in time to witness the still-smoldering ruins. A friend said she lost her collection of Andy Warhol posters and video tapes of the television show she costars in One Day at a Time. Worst of all, her pet cat, "Brains," either died in the fire or ran away. One bright spot, however, neighbors and police managed to keep her Mercedes 450 SL from being destroyed.

8490 Frances Murray, 28, was beaten up here in his home at 8490 Colcrest Drive in April, 1957, by actress Eva Bartok and her husband Alexander Paal. Murray told police that Bartok and Paal threatened him unless he turned his personal property over to her. Murray, an admirer of Bartok and the son of Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas Murray, later refused to press charges.
Where is She Now? Bartok died in London on August 1, 1998 at age 71.

6216 Before leaving her home at 6216 Colgate Avenue on October 7, 1949, actress Jean Spangler, 27, kissed her 5-year-old daughter Christine goodbye and told her sister-in-law that she was going to meet her ex-husband about his overdue child-support payment. Afterward, she said, she was going to work on a night shoot for a new film. Two days later, just hours after her sister-in-law reported her missing, her purse was found in Fern Dell in Griffith Park. Some think that the talented hopeful who wanted to be a star was silenced by the mob because of her ties to two members of Mickey Cohen's gang. Others think her ex-husband killed her to get custody of their daughter. Some think she died as the result of a botched abortion. There was a nationwide search for Spangler, but no further clues have ever turned up. Los Angeles Homicide Captain Thad Brown who was in charge of the investigation of the Jean Spangler disappearance was also in charge of the Black Dahlia murder investigation.

Where is She Now? Spangler is still listed as a missing person and the Los Angeles Police have not closed the case.

6571 Extra girl Mildred Marsh, younger sister of actress Mae Marsh, was living at 6571 Colgate Avenue in October, 1927, when she and several hundred other players were facing lights waiting for the call of "camera" on a large set at Paramount Studios. Adolphe Menjou, playing the part of an orchestra leader noticed Mildred slump in her seat and her head fall on the shoulder of the girl next to her. He stopped and called attention to her and assistants rushed to her aid. Mildred, just beginning here career in films, revealed that for three days she had continued working while suffering from an attack of appendicitis against the advice of her doctor who warned her that any excercise could prove fatal. "I don't care," she said, "I had been given a "bit" in this picture and I was going to stick it out if it killed me." She was taken to the hospital where she was operated on.

6636 After an quarrel with her husband in July, 1931, in which he accused her of accepting too much attention from other men, Mrs. Dorothy Moss, 30, of 6636 Colgate Avenue, leaped from the car driven by her husband, Rex, while he was going about thirty-five miles an hour. The couple had been at a party when the argument started. As they were returning home, still arguing, she jumped from the car and suffered serious injuries. He rushed her to the Hollywood Hospital.

6636 Concert pianist, Suzanne Bittner, 24, of 6636 Colgate Avenue, was injured in August, 1954, when a hair dryer fell on her head in a Beverly Hills beauty salon. She filed a $65,000 law suit charging negligence of the equipment that resulted in concussion, double vision, and loss of memory, which made it impossible for her to play the piano in public.

6680 On December 1, 1948, Everett Isenhower, manager of Westinghouse Western Electric Corp. Division, left his home at 6680 Colgate Avenue to buy a newspaper. He never returned. His body was found the next day in his car parked near 7640 Mulholland Drive – he had killed himself with bullet fired into his brain. No note was found.

8875 Edward Hoffman, 48, got a telephone call at his home at 8875 Collingwood Drive on January 16, 1956, from a man who told him that he had several objectionable photographs of Mrs. Hoffman which would be delivered to him on payment of $2000. He said that if Hoffman called the police, his home would be burned down. Hoffman called police who arranged a trap. On June 21, Hoffman drove to 12th and Lake Streets with a detective hidden on the floor of the back seat and another in the trunk of his car. Two youths approached Hoffman's car and handed him an envelope, and he handed them an envelope with $60 cash. At that moment, the two detectives jumped from the car and arrested two 17-year-old boys. Their envelope contained nothing but waste paper.

9209 Ralph Cattell, 39, former TV executive and screenwriter, shot and killed himself in his home at 9209 Cordell Drive in August, 1952. His wife and 15-year-old daughter were with him in his studio that was located above the garage, when he said "I am going to solve my problems once and for all," then stepped into a closet and shot himself in the head with a rifle. Cattell, who was having financial problems, had purchased the two-story colonial home in 1951 from Dr. John Wilson for $50,000.

9232 Greek Theater publicist, William Westcott Jr, 33, was brutally murdered in his apartment at 9232 Cordell Drive in August, 1956. The handsome young playboy, son of a wealthy retired manufacturer, had been savagely beaten in the head with the butt of a revolver. The blows that smashed his skull to a pulp, were delivered with such force that the grips of the pistol's handle were broken off. Westcott's body, fully clothed, was sprawled on the sofa with his head resting against the back of the sofa. Numerous films of men in nude poses and autographs of several ballet dancers were found in the apartment, along with clothing obviously belonging to other men, and two suitcases filled with uniforms, apparently the property of servicemen who had been guests of Westcott's. The day after the murder, ex-convict, Rodrigo Jose Castro, 20, was arrested in Kingman, Arizona driving Westcott's convertible. He admitted to police that he had beaten and shot Westcott during a violent struggle. Castro, also known as Ray Pastrana, was an illegal alien who worked part-time as a dishwasher and bus boy. He told police that Westcott had picked him up at a bus station on Hollywood Boulevard about 3 a.m. the morning of the killing and invited him to his apartment for a drink. A fight began when Westcott pointed two pistols at him and ordered him to take his clothes off. "I knocked the guns out of his hands, He slapped me and tore my shirt. I picked up a gun and beat on the head. He fell down once and picked up the gun on the floor. When he came at me, I continued to hit him in the head with the other gun." After beating him unconscious, he said he shot Westcott in the head.

1115 Burglars broke into the home of film producer Marcus Lowe II at 1115 Cory Avenue in September, 1946, and stole silverware, jewelry and a mink jacket with a total value of $4350.

515 When blonde Ginerva Knight, an 18-year-old war widow of 515 N. Courtney Avenue, arrived home from work at 1:30 a.m. on April 30, 1947, she parked her convertible coupe by the side of the house and entered the living room to get a .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver which she kept at home because she did not have a permit to carry it. She followed this procedure regularly because she thought the heavily shrubbed driveway was an invitation for prowlers and mashers. When she drove her car into the garage, a man clamped a gloved hand over her mouth and said: "If you scream, I'll kill you. I'm taking you and the car and backing out of here." He pushed her to the floor boards, lowering the pistol he was carrying, he turned to back out the car. Ginerva then pleaded with him in a loud voice to cover the click of the hammer of her pistol as she cocked it. She then shot the man in the stomach. "You killed me!" he screamed and lunged at her and she beat on the head with the pistol while she held his gun away from her. Then she shot him in the face. He slumped dead at the wheel and th car lurched into he side of the house. Police later identified the dead man as Thomas Housos, 29, an Air Force veteran. Papers showed that He had been married in San Francisco just a few days before he was killed, and that he worked as a bellhop and was a member of the Oaklawn Jockey Club of Hot Springs, Arkansas and that he played a bit part in a movie in June, 1944. His black coupe was found at the corner of Courtney and Sunset Blvd. Mrs. Knight, an assistant theater manager who lived in the house with her 16-month-old son, Ian, her mother Adelaide Boeing and her grandmother Harriet Ryer, was not held by the police

1600 On June 13, 2004, screenwriter Robert Lees, 91, was attacked and beheaded in the bedroom of his home at 1600 N. Courtney Avenue between 1 and 10 a.m. Later that morning, the killer scaled the backyard fence taking Lee's head with him, and fatally stabbed retired physician Morley Engelson, 69, in his home on the west side of Stanley Avenue while he was on the the phone making an airline reservation. Engleson was found by the front door, While searching the house they found Lees’ head. Both men were apparently killed with their own kitchen knives. The next day, the killer, Keven Lee Graff, 27, was arrested sitting on a wall outside Paramount Studios on Melrose Ave. Graff later told a local paper that he was high on methamphetamine and ecstasy at the time of the killings and didn't remember anything about that night. "If I really did this, man, I just want to say I’m sorry; I’m so sorry. I know saying sorry isn’t enough. It isn’t going to do nothing. But I’m no criminal, dude. I’m really a good kid. I don’t know how this all happened." Lees, who sometimes wrote under the name of J. E. Selby, was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950s. His credits include the TV shows “Rawhide,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and “Land of the Giants” and the movies “The Black Cat” and “Holiday in Havana,” and Abbott and Costello movies. Lee's small bungalow was for sale for $849,000.00 in 2005.

1612 Max Lehman, 55, a retired businessman, killed himself in his home at 1612 N. Courtney Avenue in November, 1927. He shot himself in the temple with the aid of a hand mirror to direct his aim.

1624 When Universal Studio cowboy star Art Acord left his wife and home at 1624 N. Courtney Avenue in March, 1923, his wife, Edna Mae told reporters that it was the last time he will leave it, as she was not going to let him return. "I made Art Acord what he is today," she said. "When we were married in 1919, his worldly possessions consisted of the Army uniform in which he was discharged. This house is mine, it was a wedding gift from my father." In September, 1924, Edna Mae filed suit for divorce, charging Accord with desertion, failure to provide and associating with actress Louise Lorraine. Art and Louise were married in 1925 and divorced in 1929. His career came to an end with the coming of sound. In 1931,
Where Are They Now? Acord, an alcoholic, was found dead in a Chihuahua., Mexico hotel room – he had killed himself with cyanide at age 41. He had been working in Mexico as a miner. Although his death was listed as a suicide, many of his friends said that he had been murdered by a Mexican politician who had caught Acord having an affair with his wife. Acord is buried in Forest Lawn Glendale in the Vale of Memory, L-2608. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1709 Vine Street. Louise Lorraine died in 1981 in New York, at age 79, and is buried in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, in section Enduring Faith, L-1559, G-2. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6541 Hollywood Blvd.

1624 Composer Michel Michelet was living in the former Acord house at !624 N. Courtney in 1950. Composer for over 50 films, he was nominated for Best Music Score, in 1944 for "The Hairy Ape" and "A Voice in the Wind."

Where is He Now? Michelet died in 1995 at age 101. His ashes are in Hollywood Cemetery in the Chapel Columbarium, second floor, west wall, T-3, N-11.

1726 Within minutes after he had left the St. Thomas Episcopal Church , at 7501 Hollywood Blvd. in September, 1924, Rev. Frank Roudenbush, rector of the church, dropped dead of a heart attack as he walked to his home at 1726 N. Courtney Avenue. When opposite 7626 Hollywood Blvd. he complained to his wife, Flora of pain near his heart and a moment later fell dead to the sidewalk.

1743 John Lewis, 40, British Vice Consul in Los Angeles, was severely burned in a fire in his apartment at 1743 N. Courtney Avenue in January, 1956. The fire started in a bed in his second floor apartment, and destroyed the bed and burned through the floor to the apartment below.

1760 When Leo F. Levy answered his door at 1760 N. Courtney Avenue in June, 1930, an expressman said he had a large box for him. When Levy saw Federal dry agents coming up to the door, he said he knew nothing about the box and refused to accept it even though it was addressed to him from a Louis Levy in New York. The box contained $1000 worth of choice liquors, champagnes and wines. The liquor was taken back and stored in a Los Angeles warehouse.

1760 Mrs. Blanche Banks, 56, suffered a two-inch gash on her forehead on September, 1955, when she was struck by an intruder in the living room of the home of soft drink company vice president ,T. Carl Thompson at 7160 N. Courtney Avenue. Mrs. Banks was Thompson's housekeeper.
(James A. Farley, former Postmaster General attended a party here in the home of his close friend Carl Thompson on August 7, 1941).

1760 In January, 1959, Mrs. Cora Galenti Girou Smith, 60-year-old facial rejuvenation operator of 1760 N. Courtney Avenue, was found guilty of three counts of practicing medicine without a license here in her salon. Three women who received beautification treatments testified at the trial where Mrs. Smith denied that she had promised to do anything beyond seeking to remove wrinkles.

Home Update TV and radio personality, Leeza Gibbons and her husband, actor Steve Meadows bought the three-story home in the early 1990s and later built a 2-1/2-story, guesthouse in the back. He worked in the guesthouse while she hosted and produced her radio show "Hollywood Confidential" from a small radio booth in the home. The main house was built in 1925 for John Blair. When Gibbons and Meadows separated in 2007, she put the home up for sale for $8 million. The home has eight bedrooms, 6-1/2 baths, and 1.2 park-like acres.

1803       Actor Franchot Tone was hospitalized with serious injuries he received during a fight with actor Tom Neal on September 15, 1951. The one-sided battle occurred at about 2 a.m. in front of the apartment of actress Barbara Payton at 1803 N. Courtney Avenue. According to police, Payton and Tone returned here to her apartment about 1:30 a.m. after attending several night clubs. They found Tom Neal inside. Payton asked him to leave but her refused. She asked Tone to 'get rid of him."One word led to another and Tone, 45, invited Neal, 37, outside into the courtyard, Neal, a former amatuer boxer, urged Tone to reconsider but Tone said no. Outside, Tone let fly with a wild right punch that Neal ducked. Then he hit Tone with several punches that put Tone on the ground bleeding. Payton tried to stop Neal put he pushed her away. When a doctor arrived about 3:30 a.m. he found Tone lying semiconscious on the steps of the home. He rushed Tone to the California Hospital where they discovered he had broken cheek bones, a broken nose and a cereral concussion. They operated on his face for two hours. Payton who recieved a black eye during "the fight," had recently broke her engagement with Tone and was going to marry Neal the afternoon of the fight. The wedding was off, Neal said through his attorney. During the 1960s, Payton was arrested several times times for drunkenness and prostitution.
Where Are They Now? Payton died on May 8, 1967, in the home of her parents in San Diego at age 40. Her father found her body on the floor of the bathroom, dead of heart and liver failure, due to cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by relentless drinking. She is buried in the Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory in San Diego, in the Chapel of Promise Niche 28 (downstairs) in the middle at the top right side.
       Tone died of lung cancer in New York City on September 18, 1968 at the age of 63. He was staying with his ex-wife, actress Joan Crawford in her apartment, and she took care of him despite her own illness. According to a visitor who asked who the man in the wheelchair was, Crawford replied: "Him? That's Franchot". His remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered.
       Neal, unable to find much work after the fight, became a landscape gardener in Palm Springs. In 1965 Neal was convicted of killing his third wife, Gail. He served six years in prison, and died on August 7, 1972 , in Studio City, California, eight months after leaving prison. He was 57. Neal was cremated and the location of his ashes are unknown.

1820 When Elizabeth Cosgriff, 29, opened the door of her homa at 1820 Courtney Terrace on October 17, 1947, two Los Angeles police officers tried to serve her with two traffic violation warrents, she slammed the door in their faces. The officers battered in the locked door, and an inside door, served the warrents and arrested her. At the Hollywood Police Station, she paid $42 bail and was released.

1841 Miss Kate Desmond, 65, of 1841 Courtney Terrace, daughter of the late Daniel Desmond, pioneer Los Angeles clothing merchant, was killed by a 60-foot fall in Nichols Canyon in 1947. She was standing with her sister Anna, on a cliff at the end of Courtney Terrace watching tree-trimmers working nearby, when she got too close to the edge and fell over. After a 40-foot plunge, she rolled about 20 feet and was found dead at the bottom.

428 Louise Greenbaum, 5, of 428 N. Crescent Heights Blvd., was badly burned in 1936, when a gas heater ignited a grass skirt she was wearing. Louise was practicing a hula-hula dance routine when her grass skirt was set on fire by the flame of an open gas heater. She was rushed to the hospital where she hovered between life and death with second and third degree burns over her entire body and face.

1111 Carol Fuller, 72, was locked in a closet in her bungalow at 1111 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. around December 1, 1994 by robbers and she was not found until two months later on February 2, 1995. Not able to get out of the locked closet, she died of dehydration or starvation. The inside of the closet door had been splintered, gouged and was stained with blood, apparently from fingers that were cut by her frantic attempt to get out. Fuller, a stylish widow whom neighbors described as a diva and an Italian eccentric, was not tied up or gagged, but she apparently could not make herself heard above the din of traffic that rushed almost around the clock past Santa Monica and Crescent Heights boulevards. The house had been in her husband's family for years. Her husband, Ed, died 10 or 15 years ago after a career in the motion picture business. He told neighbors that he had designed a special platform for mounting several cameras on a car at once-making it easier to record the epic stampedes, chases and cavalry charges that were the fixture of a generation of Hollywood movies. The only missing item police could describe was the white, 1972 two-door Lincoln that Fuller kept wedged into her tiny garage. The Pusaka Collection Antiques shop was located in the bungalow in 2006.

1201 Actress Shelley Winters moved into a penthouse in the Villa d'Italia Apartments at 1201 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. in 1950 which her lover Burt Lancaster had found for her. The two met here often during their love affair. Winters also entertained her other lovers, Marlon Brando and Farley Grainger here in her apartment. Brando would leave his motorcycle at the gas station across the street and Lancaster often called her from the station's public telephone. Brando once ran naked through the halls while staying with Shelley one night. She moved to an apartment on Holloway Drive with Marilyn Monroe in 1951. Actress Louise Brooks lived in the apartments for two months in 1936. Mafia gangster Frankie Carbo lived here in 1938. He is reported to have been the hit man who shot and killed Bugsy Siegel in 1946. A one bedroom view apartment rented for $115 month in 1960.

Where Are They Now? Winters died in 2006 at age 86 and is buried in Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California in the Hillside Slope, Block 11, Plot 358, grave 8. Marlon Brando died in 2004. His ashes were scattered in multiple locations, specifically Tahiti and Death Valley, California. The ashes of his close friend, actor Wally Cox, were also scattered in the Death Valley location at the same time. Carbo died in 1976 in Miami Beach. Brooks died in New York in 1985 at age 79 and is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, in Rochester, New York, in Section 33S, Lot 133F (From the exact middle of the south edge of the rectangular Section 33S, walk north 4 rows and Louise is on your right.

12?? Sheriff's deputies arrested Chase Devlin Bramlage on suspicion of killing his girlfriend, Fukuko Kusakari, whose body was found in their apartment in the 1200 block of Crescent Heights Blvd. on December 2, 2005. The 25-year-old woman was found with stab wounds and pronounced dead at the scene, Police arrested Chase Devin Bramlage, 26, a struggling actor and film boom operator.

1424 In the early hours of February 20, 1935, when L.A. Times delivery boy Gordon Harter, 21, of 1326 N. Stanley Ave., was delivering the L. A. Times in the hills above Hollywood, he noticed smoke coming from the Voltaire Apartments at 1424 Crescent Heights Blvd. He didn't hear fire or police sirens, so he drove down to investigate. He found the the front door locked, so he went around to the back and broke into the hall and ran all the bells in the apartments from the buttons at the front desk. Then he ran down all the halls and pounded on doors and told people to get out. Smoke on the upper two floors was very thick.
Scantily clad tenants, many of whom were actors or worked in the movie colony, rushed from the building just before the elevator crashed down when the cables melted from the fire on top of the building. Among screen notables who fled the building were: actress Kathlyn Williams, Margaret Ettinger and her husband, Russ Shattuck, actor's agents and Marcella Knapp, casting director at MGM. Others who were attracted to the fire were actor Alan Hale, who lived next door with his family, actor Ralph Graves, writer John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Farrow kept his car in the Voltaire garage. The fire started shortly before 6 a.m. in the elevator shaft from a carelessly tossed cigarette, and spread rapidly to the sixth and seventh floor.

One county fireman was killed and six others injured in the fire. D.W. Woods, 35, of Company No. 6 died from a crushed chest when he fell from the sloping slate roof into a clump of bushes, 100 feet below. Woods lived at 7500 Fountain Ave. The Voltaire, a beautifully landscaped property of French Norman architecture, was built in 1928 at a cost of about $400,000. It housed about 150 tenants.

1424        Nine-year-old actress Lora Lee Michel was living in the Voltaire Apartments at 1424 N. Crescent Heights Boulevard in 1950 when her foster mother, Mrs. Lorraine Michel, 55, was arrested and charged with beating the little actress and underfeeding her to keep her weight down for films. During a court hearing, the pastor of the United Brethern Church in Burbank testified that when Lora Lee came to see him in December of 1949, it was obvious that she had been mistreated. "She had black and blue marks on one arm, her shoulders and buttocks. The marks were yellow and purple in color. She was broken in spirit and on the verge of hysterics."
       Lora Lee told the court that "I couldn't eat candy because I'd get fat. The movies don't like you to get fat." Lora Lee also testified that she used to wander around the halls of the building, drinking milk left in front of other doorways by deliverymen because she was hungry and that Mrs. Michel had beaten her with a hair brush when she caught her eating candy. Mrs. Mary Ellen Clinton, manager of the apartments testified that she often missed milk and cottage cheese from in front of her door.
       The judge ruled that the $100-a-day little actress had to give up the movies and go back to her home in Texas. Reports said the she was quite happy about it. Lora Lee appeared in only 5-6 movies, in "Tokyo Joe" she was Humphrey Bogart's daughter and she was the young Jill Young in the film "Mighty Joe Young."

Whatever Happened to Her? In 1991, Lora Lee she was still living in Hollywood where she was the executive producer of the film "Career Opportunities " starring Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly.

1425 Actress Lynne Baggett and her mother were living in a modest court apartment at 1425 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. on July 9, 1954, when she was arrested for the hit-and-run death of a 9-year-old boy. She was charged with being the driver of a Nash Rambler which smashed into the rear of a station wagon loaded with children at Waring and Orlando, killing one boy, and injuring another. Witnesses said that they saw Baggett stop and park, come back to the scene of the accident, look at the dead boy lying in the street, then hurry back to her car and drive away. The Nash, owned by actor George Tobias, a former boyfriend of Baggett, was discovered in sections in two San Fernando Valley garages being repaired. She had driven the car to a vacant lot in the 18600 block of Ventura Blvd., where she left it under a tree about 300 feet from the street. Then she called Arnold's Body Shop in Northridge, and had them tow it to the shop for repairs. The frame, badly bent, was sent to Art's Automotive Center at 13627 Ventura Blvd. for repair. In October, 1954, she was acquitted of manslaughter and served a 50-day sentence in the county jail for hit-and-run.
Whatever Happened to Her? Miss Baggett's life was a troubled one: In November, 1947, she moved in with producer Sam Spiegel at his house on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills. On April 10, 1948, she and Spiegel were married, he was 44, she was 24. In 1951, the marriage started to come apart when she trashed the Crescent Drive house. He claimed she slashed all of his suits with a pair of scissors and even destroyed six Picassos. They separated in 1952
On June 7, 1959, she was found unconscious in bed at her Beverly Hills home at 240 N. La Peer. She had taken an overdose of sleeping pills.On August 24, 1959, she was found on the floor in her La Peer Drive apartment. She claimed she was trapped for six days under her foldaway bed without food or water. She said she slipped and fell halfway under the bed, hurt her back, and couldn't move or reach her telephone. She was paralyzed from her knees down.

Where is She Now? On March 22, 1960, Baggett, 33, was found dead in her apartment at 1750 N. Sycamore, in Hollywood, a victim of an overdose of sleeping pills. She was found stretched out on the bed with her hands on the floor dressed in a pink shorty nightgown and white panties. Nearby were some orange tablets and blue and white capsules. She had been dead about 12 hours. She is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, in the Graceland section, Lot 992.

1428 Former silent film star Kathlyn Eyton Williams, 65, died of a heart attack in her Voltaire apartment at 1428 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. on September 25, 1960. She was found lying on the bedroom floor by a maid who arrived to do the housework. Confined to a wheel chair after losing a leg in a near fatal auto crash in Death Valley in 1949, she was once married to Charles Eyton studio manager for Famous Players-Lasky. She had lived lived here since she retired from films in 1934 where she was known as a gracious hostess who entertained socialites and motion picture celebrities frequently.
The years following her auto crash were dark ones for the vivacious actress. Confinement to the wheel chair altered her active way of life and she once confessed "I wanted to die when I realized how bad off I was." Miss Williams, known as "The Selig Girl," was one of the first prominent motion picture actresses. William Desmond Taylor directed her in three of her 176 films. Her signature appears on Taylor's death certificate; she is the one who officially identified Taylor's body after his murder. In March, 1942, Williams was arrested and booked on a drunk charge after she hit a car in the 1200 block of Crescent Heights Blvd. Leaving no family, her $287,000 estate was given to several charities.

Where is She Now? Her ashes are in the Deodora Hall, South Columbarium in the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.

1430 Architect Nathan Juran, and his brother-in-law, Harry Tarnoff were arrested at Juran's home at 1430 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. in 1937, for disturbing the peace. According to police reports, Juran's mother-in-law arrived at his home to visit her daughter, and a quarrel began when Juran pushed Mrs. Tarnoff from the front steps of the home. This led to a fist fight with Harry Tarnoff, who had accompanied Mrs. Tarnoff. Both men were taken to the County Jail, where Mrs. Juran posted bail for her brother, but left her husband behind bars.

1439 Actor Kenneth Harlan was living in the Del Robbia Court Apartments at 1439 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. in April, 1928, when he was charged with stealing the love of Mrs. Gertrude Virginia Henry, pretty young wife of Albert Preston Henry, wealthy retired manufacturer of Detroit who was suing her for divorce. Henry accused his wife of attending many wild parties and admitted having spied on Harlan's home here where he lived with director Lefty Flynn. Henry was asking custody of his two children on grounds that she was unfit to care for them.

Where is He Now? Harlan, who was married seven times, including a marriage to actress Marie Prevost, died in Sacramento in 1967 at age 72. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in the Abbey of the Psalms, second floor, corridor H3, crypt 7283 (top row).

1889 Melvin Geimer, 40, was arrested at his home at 1889 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. in 1950 for obtaining money illegally through the promotion of a fake motion picture company.

1889 In September, 1951, nine people were arrested for gambling in a mansion at 1889 N. Crescent Heights Blvd.

138 Sam Mellon, oil operator and clubman was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon during a party in the home of Viola Herrington of 138 S. Crescent Heights Blvd. in October, 1934. Herrington charged that Mellon threw her down when she tried to interfere in a argument between him and Miss Rose Marie Minke. He took a pistol away from Herrington after she threatened him with it and hit her over the head with the gun and with a telephone when she tried to call police. During the altercation, Miss Pinke slid under the bed, crawled out the other side and escaped from the room. Both Mellon and Miss Minke were drunk, Herrington said.

2564 Italian newspaperwoman Edeltraut McCrary, 31, filed for divorce from her husband Dr. Jay Gibson McCrary in March, 1950. She charged that she and her 8-year-old daughter Maria were "almost like prisoners" in their home at 2564 N. Creston Drive, and "kept threatening to send us back to Europe." She testified that he walked around in the nude in the presence of her child. "A lady came to see him one day, and they went into his bedroom and locked the door. They stayed for about an hour." Married in May, 1949, and separated in January, 1950, the judge ordered that they remain in the home, she on the upper floor and he on the lower floor. She was granted the divorce. in March, 1951.

2565 County Auditor Herbert Payne was found dead in the bedroom of his home at 2565 N. Creston Drive in May, 1938 – he had killed himself with a bullet through his brain. Friends said that he was greatly disappointed when a $35,000 judgement given to him against a hospital was reversed. He had sued the hospital for leaving a toothpick in him after an appendectomy. His close friends said he often spoke of living a lonely life after his wife died two years earlier.

2569 In August 1930, Dr. Phillip Boller, 45, of 2569 N. Creston Drive, shot and killed himself in his office on Wilshire Boulevard. No note was found. His widow Alma, told police that he had been brooding over financial reverses.

2700 During a family argument over the color of flower pots for a garden, led Mrs. Frances Shaeffer, 54, of 2700 N. Creston Drive, to attempt to take her life by swallowing an overdose of sleeping tablets. She was taken to the Hollywood Hospital where her stomach was pumped.