Sunset Boulevard House
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2017
- This is a video of the current location of the old Sunset Boulevard home. Norma Desmond’s glorious old Renaissance-style mansion was located in midtown Los Angeles. It stood, until 1957, at 641 South Irving Boulevard on the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard, when - unbelievably - it was demolished to make way for the glumly nondescript Getty headquarters, now the Harbor Building.
The mansion, seen also in Rebel Without A Cause, was built in the Twenties for a former US Consul in Mexico, who abandoned the building, leaving it vacant for over ten years until it was bought by J Paul Getty. At the time of filming of Sunset Boulevard, the mansion had passed to Mrs J Paul Getty in a divorce settlement and she, in turn, rented the property out to Paramount on condition the film company built her a swimming pool.
It is sad that this beautiful house was demolished. A house always tells the story not only of thise that lived in, but the story of a whole time
These great old mansions had beauty and character. Compare them to Aaron Spelling's monstrosity.
I love those old homes, the architectural detail & attention to detail. Now homes are cheaply built with no character.
Yep, even when they're expensive, they're cheap. It's depressing to see, I wish Americans understood the value in older architecture.
@@xtinkerbellax3 Agreed 💯
Except for yours, right
@@xtinkerbellax3and we wish YOU understood the value of AC, central heating, modern plumbing and electricity that isn’t coin operated
@@debbylou5729 What is YOUR problem? The poster you replied to is spot on - I'm guessing your crib is tacky as all get out...
Heartbreaking the house was demolished. It was very beautiful. At least some of the other very charming houses still remain.
A beautiful historic house was destroyed so that they could build another ugly cookie cutter office building.
It would have been nice if they could have repurposed it into office spaces or apartments.
@SymphonyBrahms. ...my exact thoughts. 😮💨
Hideous.
Que horror
What a shame to destroy such a beautiful home...
It was also used during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause. The pool was not part of the original property, it was placed there by Paramount, specifically for the filming of Sunset Boulevard.
Very few people realize that about the movie Rebel Without a Cause that it was the Desmond House. You took my comment!
Didn't know the pool wasn't original- thanks!
Always thought it strange to have the pool in the 'front yard' - thx for the info😉😎
The interiors were done on Paramount sound stages.
So many things in life can be so fleeting. Looking back and finding out how they came to be and what swept them away you sometimes have to marvel at how unknowing we were that it was such a gift we got to experience them. Thank you for sharing.
IMO, all of the other houses shown pale in comparison to the Paul Getty house.
And it had to be the one torn
down. Such a shame.
Getty was a strange and cruel man.
Agonizing that such a dystopian eyesore should replace that stunning estate.
Classic Video Lover: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (beholden?). Everyone is speaking as if it was just torn down but it happened in 1957 and the home evidently was a pit inside. It’s only value was that exterior shots for SUNSET BOULEVARD were filmed there. If that hadn’t happened would anyone real care? No one can get it up for Max and his organ, so move on.
Actually that office building was very beautiful inside. The original interior must have been very beautiful as the Getty Oil building. . When I saw the inside of the building it still had some original features that were very nice.
Ayn Rand was right, alas. Mediocrity is taking over.
How sad. I didn't know it had been demolished.
The ghosts of Holden and Swanson probably still haunt the unseen stairs and ballroom. We can only imagine the energy they left there.
@lorac c.
That particular staircase only existed in the Warner's studio. Only exterior shots were done at the house.
No interiors.
But I get what you mean.
Lovely piano music.
One of my favorite movies! :)
Imagine if the house was still there!!!
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”
It was still there until 1957.
Foco de turistas
Should be called Horrible House History of Hollywood. A shame it was demolished.
Had the house not been torn down when it was, the later Historic designation of the neighborhood would have saved it. The timing was sadly just wrong.
Hollywood never was interested in its own heritage. "Pickfair" was demolished as late as 1981 without anyone lifting a finger
@@talmadge1926 "Piickfair" was known as the "White House" of the West Coast during the days of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. A true shame a home of such history was ignored and eventually torn down by a "Nobody". Same with the Ambassador Hotel and the Brown Derby. All that is left of significance Is now being preserved by the Margaret Herrick Library
@SEAN PETAIA This film will be watched as long as films from the Golden Age of Hollywood are in existence. People always love films and especially one's that were well made, not to forget even those that were oftentimes considered badly made. Many of those are now cult classics.
@SEAN PETAIA The Only thing left Golden in Hollywood today are the "Golden Showers" they hand out to Each Other each Year!
@SEAN PETAIA I am.
Oh that's tragic... I loved that house... Never got to actually see it in other than pictures, but still loved it.
One of my favorite films!!!
The 1957 shot was taken from Wilshire looking NW up S Irving Blvd. The house faced Wilshire but the driveway came off of S Irving and exited on Wilshire or vice versa. The poolside was hidden from the street view and spilled down into lower garden with a tennis court. Historic aerial shots show that the current highrise building only occupies what was the driveway. The house and pool are now the rear parking lot.
Jesus, that’s even more sad. Literally, a parking lot. Not the only Silent “Film” Star’s Oasis to be torn down. At least the Oasis was converted into a Hotel …of sorts now.
They tore down a gorgeous mansion, with character, only to build one of the ugliest, square, plain buildings on the planet? That office building looks like a Soviet-era apartment building! Disgusting!
STUNNING , INTERESTING AND HEARTBREAKING INFORMATION !
That’s at Wilshire where Crenshaw terminates.
I’ve passed that building a million times without a clue!
It just goes to show ya.
The piano music on this is stunningly gorgeous . . . I wish I knew what it was . . . Who composed it . . . The name . . . I had to replay the video just to listen to the music!
A GREAT movie - a story well told and creepy as hell. Made a HUGE impression on me as a young man. One of the reasons I'm still a writer...
I just watched that movie again this week. One of my favorites.
Ugg. Makes me sick to think of a historic home was demolished in favor of an office building when it could have be restored and serve as a museum. Imagine the attraction of people coming to your an iconic mansion.. especially for be the sunset Blvd house! Here in Florida the Ringling house was in despair for years(used to film the move Great Expectations starring Gwyneth paltrow) before it was lovingly restored. It is toured as part of the Ringling museum.
Charlie Hayden-Bupp: Sarasota might have a different philosophy on renovations and uses for old mansions.
Be better silent with the noise of the traffic in modern pictures of the homes
The Ebell women's club a short distance West on Wilshire has some of the same look and features. There is an outdoor staircase up from the garden to a terrace, opposite a colonnade.
Such a beautiful mansion, part of LA history and it couldn't be saved. Sad.
Thank You so much for this mini-documentary about the house and the surrounding properties!!
Craziness to have destroyed that mansion !!!
It’s sad that beautiful architecture isn’t valued over an ugly office building.
Just perfect tres tres chic👌
The L.A. mayor's mansion is on the corner of Irving and 6th, around the corner from the Harbor building. It appears at 4:03.
So sad 😞 to see so many GRAND historic buildings destroyed 😢 💔 by the greed of big business! At this one will live on, as a significant part of Sunset 🌇 Boulevard. They've taken the idols and smashed them!!!
I have passed by the Harbor building not knowing that this was the original location. so sad
Beautiful, first I see of the homes. Beautiful Landscaping❤️
What a hellacious noisy traffic congested neighborhood
That's truly sad, it was a beautiful house. I was about to say, now that's a mansion. Did they use it for The Great Gatsby?
Terrible that it was demolished but the location was not great. Really beautiful building though.
I can still see the original Italian Cypress tress and palms...
Its a shame that the hard work of several people went to waste, from the idea to the development to the building of the home only to become a derelict wreck.
Fascinating! I did not know any of that!
great video thank you
I would love to live in a mansion
Very sad. What a waste of a beautiful building!
So sad nobody really lived in it!
Why was it empty so much of the time?
It should be said Rebel without cause was also filmed there.
Stop bangin' on that piana!
Fascinated 🤩
How sad
I lived in the Los Altos and looked right onto the Getty Building.
Love the film "Sunset Boulevard". It's a total tragedy that beautiful house was destroyed. It should have been saved. And to be replaced with just another hideous office building 😝
There are beautiful homes near that area. Many homes that were south or east in that area are being revitalized (especially with housing being so limited in LA). There’s a huge historical narrative regarding redlining and hard working professional doctors, attorneys, investors etc. The neighborhoods really saw a major downfall in the late 70s and early 80s.
"homes"
Those remaining homes are some of the priciest residential real estate in that area today. The Beverly Wilshire district still has many historic homes. Those that made it without being condemned were spared.
Windsor Square clearly has an eclectic mixture of architectural styles. I was especially drawn to the houses shown at 4.05 and 4:32. Does anyone have any further information on these two properties, in particular, or on a listing of historic houses in the area? Many thanks!
I grew up in the next block north. The house at the SW corner of 6th & Irving was bought by the City of Los Angeles to become the Mayor's Residence (time stamp 4:27).
How sad, looks like it was a beautiful home.
It was a beautiful house, it's a shame it was demolished and replaced with a boring building, if it were up to me I would have dug it out of the ground and shipped it to Nairobi
Or Texas ❤😂
@@texas1949 I'm sure Texas is a wonderful state, but when it comes to climate and geographical position Nairobi is better. We don't have any natural disasters and our climate is sub-tropical temperate.
I grew up a block north of the mansion. No family ever occupied the house. It stood as a fenced off, ghostly relic looked after by a caretaker. When Rebel Without a Cause was filmed there in the 1950s, we could stand outside to watch James Dean, Natalie Wood and the whole movie crew. Before demolishing the house in 1957, the owners let the public wander through to bid on architectural artifacts, so I've wandered all around the house. Also noteworthy, the house at 610 S Irving Blvd (The Getty House) at the north end of the block was purchased to become the Los Angeles Mayor's Residence in 1975 (time stamp 4:12).
Very interesting video thank you but the sound of the weed wackers and city traffic was a little unnerving. Sunset Boulevard is one of my all-time favorite movies
thx very interesting.
They demolish everything in Los Angeles. You really need assistance to find old landmarks. They also tore down many single family houses to build small apartments. It really is a shame that Los Angeles has lost sp many landmarks.
Do you have any footage of the playa del Rey movie star homes,torn down in the 70s?
In the days before income taxes rich people were rolling in wealth and could afford these palatial mansions along with their team of hired help. By WWII they were dinosaurs of a bygone era. Unfortunately by the '50's and '60's most were in decay and subsequently torn down all over the country. It's fortunate and surprising that any survive today. The upkeep and taxes are tremendous. Most of the rich today would sooner take a luxury condo.
Amusing note: Some film fans drive up and down Sunset Boulevard looking for 10086, as mentioned in the motion picture. There is no such address.
Getty should have been incarcerated for tearing down this architectural gem ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
Who builds a Mansion ($) and decides to leave after one year?
Yep, it is them!
Where the interior shot done on set and i wonder if one could find a copy of the blue prints for some of the old homes that are long gone.
Yes, the interior shots of the mansion were done on a soundstage.
The house was done in a Mediterranean style, popular at the time and still (occasionally correctly done) in California. Most of the houses shown at the end of this video are not Mediterranean style.
A lot of English Tudor, which I'm not quite so fond of.
Gloria Swanson - Watch some of her silent movies. She was a very good actor..
What's the background music please?
Please tell us who owned the houses. Thank you
Is it true the pool was built with no filtration system?
That music just makes me sad. But I hope someone has to find a different home setting for that "10086 Sunset Boulevard" mansion so that the remake (read: film adaptation of the musical version) of "Sunset Boulevard" can be started sometime later on in "early 2021" or so... assuming that the pandemic can be over.
Why did the original owners only stay there one year?
We seem here in America to not value old things, from homes to people. Sad it was torn down. Most seem to be in the Spanish Villa style, except for the red brick thing with the pointy roof. What’s the deal with that, it’s ugly.
Now you just need to look away.
Gotta see if this channel has anything on the house in “Lady in a Cage.”
So did the mansion sit just outside the zone?
Too bad this house was not built in Beverly Hills; it would still be standing today, and worth millions.
JP Getty shouldv'e had his ass kicked for destroying a grand old house like that!!!
For many other reasons too. Ask his grandson.
@@stevehansen932 Yeah, I know the story, poor kid. Tight fisted Grand father.!!
His family has at least 1 sitting and rotting on Malibu beach.
So the house was only some 30-odd years old when it was demolished. LA has a history of renewal, and there was little interest in a house of that size and location for years before it was demolished. ( If there had been, someone would have bought it from Ms. Getty ). Things can look different through the lens of hindsight. I'm sure it would make a fine house today. But sadly, it's gone.
LA would be good if it stayed exactly how it was in 1957. I’ll stay in New York.
What a shame a beautiful house demolished for greedy oil.
Thought had been build by the Gilette fortune family ?
What a BEAUTIFUL, MAGICAL HOME- of its time, sadly torn down. Maybe it inspired the Preserved Historic Homes.
For a CAPITALIST BUSINESS could have gone in a rather derilect plot. Rather sad, to make one’s community without history on the land- sacred, or historically defended.
I had heard that they built the pool just for the movie scenes.
Poor LA it is so ugly it must’ve been beautiful once who or why would somebody want to live there?
It was all over once but still beautiful in many places. Rog
Sad!
I'm mad Hollywood did that... they could've kept the home and used it as a museum or another owner could've purchased and preserved it... sad that they tear down everything because the new constructions are mainly cheaply built tbh
LA treats its history like bathroom tissue: wipes the past clean, then dumps it in the toilet.
What a Waste .....shame
This information may be somewhat plausible if there was an abundance of evidence that those she is accusing of crimes were in possession of ill-gotten gains. Where ate the multiple homes, the expensive luxury cars, the extravagant jewels and clothing, the champagne and caviar for breakfast, 600-foot yachts, private jets...???????
This must be near Hancock park.
I can never understand while people from the US refer to houses as 'homes'. You cannot buy a home, you buy a house and then, hopefully you can turn it into a home. Sounds like this house never became a home!
. une pensee bien triste concernant la maison de JAYNE MANSFIELD le PINK PALACE demolit en 2000 de style mediterraneen ...
How is it possible to demolish a beautiful house with character, with a life of its own, for a horrible functional building without any charm?
What a shame it was knocked down
What was the point of this. Also, who edited this for traffic and sound. 😢
This one makes me sad - these are the bad new days - tourists & plastic dinnerware 😮🤫😉😎