Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie L.A.

By Richard Alleman

Book Overview

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including- Film & TV locations- the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity ...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard ...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade Runner to David Boreanaz on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer ....the landmark Art Deco former department store that has doubled for a glamorous hotel in Topper (1936) and an elegant nightclub in The Aviator (2004)... the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street houses... the Seinfeld and Alias apartment buildings... the Six Feet Under funeral home...The Brady Bunch and Happy Days houses...the Charlie's Angels office...the real Melrose Place ...and many more VIP tours- from legendary studios like Warner Bros., MGM (now Sony Pictures), and Universal to movie-star homes like Barbra Streisand's former Malibu compound... Crime scenes and scandal spots- the driveway where Sal Mineo was murdered, the Nicole Brown Simpson condo, the Sharon Tate estate, Marilyn Monroe's last address, the Beverly Hills Mansion where Bugsy Siegal was rubbed out...the Hollywood hotel where Janice Joplin O.D.'d... Plus- Remarkable new museums...Superstar cemeteries...Historic hotels...Hip clubs and restaurants....Fabulous restored movie palaces... Spectacular movie star mansions and ch teau apartments... Taking movie lovers behind the gates of the exclusive, often hidden world of Tinsel Town, Hollywood- The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to L.A.'s reel attractions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767916352
• ISBN13: 9780767916356
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.9" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Hooray for Hollywood

As a resident of Los Angeles and a lover of film and the history behind it, this book has been a source of hours of late night reading that lead to hours of next day exploring. You will be amazed to find that your favorite coffee shop sits on a site that was once the location of a great epic or that Cecil B DeMille lived in your neighborhood. this book gives a context and history to Los Angeles and Hollywood that is often forgotten in the current obsessions that the city is associated with today. Not only will you find the address and locations of many famous film locations and movie studios but you will also begin to see the picture of how Hollywood developed and understand the important American cultural history that lies therein. Keep it in the Glove box of your car or next to your bed or both. Truly enjoyable to the resident or the visitor.

Well researched, but ...

I was just in L.A. and used this book as a tour guide. I found it to be well researched; however, the directions aren't always clear. Therefore, it is difficult to find the listings without other guidance.

An Updated Version Of One Of My Favorites

In the late '80's, I went into Dutton's in Manhattan and found this book as well as its companion piece: New York: The Movie Lover's Guide. Both books got quite a workout on my travels to both coasts and showed a lot of wear including crayon marks from the kids. I often wished I had extra copies of both to pass on to my movie crazy friends. Fast forward 20 years. The kids are out of the house and a new and improved version of both books are available at the bookstore. What makes this book particularly endearing is that it doesn't focus on a particular era of film making/celebrity......it covers it all! Whether you are interested in knowing where Laurel and Hardy filmed THE MUSIC BOX or where Howard Hughes maintained his LA offices, it's all here. This is a great book for the merely curious or the die hard movie fanatic and definitely a must-have for the armchair traveler.