“The Star Who Would Not Go Hollywood,” Frances Farmer ultimately went out kicking and screaming in 1943. 

Like father, like son: Frederick and Roderick Burnham built neighboring hilltop homes in Hollywoodland in 1926.

Marilyn Monroe’s troubled childhood had a brief bright spot in 1933, when her mother purchased a home near the Hollywood Bowl.

In 1935, brothers Monte, Ern, Perc, and Wally Westmore opened their luxurious beauty salon on Sunset Boulevard.

Built in 1907, Wattles Mansion once boasted four themed gardens and was an original Hollywood tourist attraction.

Crane’s Hollywood showroom displayed the latest in modern plumbing.

Go inside the whimsical storybook cottage at 2244 Vista Del Mar Avenue in the Hollywood Hills.

The Hollywood Roof Ballroom was located on Vine Street, right in the heart of Movieland.

In 1925, Hollywood pioneers John and Delia Hill built the Moorish apartment house at 2260 Beachwood Drive.

Slim Aarons’ Christmas Swim is an iconic mid-century portrait that has grown even more popular in recent years, thank to social media.

Hollywood Roosevelt hotspot Cinegrill paid tribute to the motion picture industry of past, present, and future.

Go inside the historic Baine Building and Hollywood's first penthouse at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Whitley Avenue.

Go back in time to Charles E. Toberman's Hollywood hillside residential park in the late 1920s.

In 1964, Walt Disney imagined an enchanting 26-acre Hollywood campus for CalArts in the hills near the Hollywood Bowl.

Alice Blackburn invited 150 people over when she relocated her Hollywood bungalow from the freeway’s path in 1948.

Is this a house of evil destiny? The famous occupants of 2183 Argyle Avenue all seemed cursed in the early 1920s.

Who are the four people inside the $500,000 marble crypt?

The most unique place to shop in Hollywood was the Mandarin Market, characterized by pagodas, red lacquer roof, and hand-carved dragons.

The French painter’s artistic home was the first Hollywood tourist attraction.

The 90-year saga of the Streamline Moderne at Hollywood and Cahuenga.