Justin I agree with you whole heartedly… we need more fun movies… I was a teenager in the 80s and most everything was fun, music was great , clothes were fun as there were so many styles: mod, 50s, new wave, rock, Madonna look, Cindy Lauper look, big hair… just a fun fun time.
Thanks for giving Miss Davies some of the recognition she deserves - as her own remarkable person, not just her relationship with Hearst. It was her home, not Hearst’s. And she had very little resemblance to Susan Alexander - who married and divorced Kane and who when she met Kane had no connection w show business, while Davies was a successful Ziegfeld girl.
I first took notice of this house in an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. It was filmed a few years after Marion Davis died, I think it might have been the first to use it as a filming location. The pool was drained and it didn't look as magnificent as it does in later movies and shows, but I fell in love with the home and grounds. It reminded me of the line in Sunset Blvd whe Joe describes Norma's home as "The kind crazy movie people built in the crazy 20s."
Thank you so much. I'm 65. I've been a huge fan of hers for over 40 years. I read an autobiography. I've known about this house and all her houses. Love this house. All the movies done there. To get to see this house thrilling. I enjoy all your work. Whitney heights, fascinating. I'm an old Hollywood fan. I've driven through all of Beverly hills, etc .
There was a huge warehouse at San Simeon where Hearst had tons of things stored for the castle. Most likely that fireplace mantle was in the warehouse and shipped south for use in the home there! The Chief also had a five story main warehouse in New York where most of his European finds ended up before being shipped to Hearst's private wharf at San Simeon, Ca. After the family turned 120 hill top acres and the castle over to the State of Ca. The Hearst corp. sold most of the items in the warehouse. The Madonna Inn at slo has a marble balustrade leading upstairs to the gift shops which Alex Madonna bought from that warehouse sale along with other items to include huge carved entry ways, plaster of paris pieces copied in marble on the hill by Italian artisans in residence there.
Jennifer Jones came to Hollywood with her then-husband, Robert Walker, probably best known today for Strangers on a Train. She began her relationship with Selznick while still married to Walker (who had his own battle with mental health).
Justin ! Love this video, I have been fascinated with the history of this house. My Aunt & Uncle took me there when I was 12, but I could only peek over the road. Was for sale many times. I appreciate the films you mentioned . Will watch the one with Jennifer Jones, one of my favorite actresses. We went to San Simeon right after the Patty Hearst debacle. There was a bomb planted in one of the entry ways with the black smoke staining the stone. 1977 my first trip to California I was home.
I lived on the ortheast side of milwaukee and the mansions all had beautiful furniture custom made for them... Expensive but lasts forever. I love to go to the estate sales as many are early empty
This was really well done. Informative and entertaining, well researched and many photos and clips. A lot of content creators seem to just wanna show their big faced close ups. The wind/earthquake made me laugh, yeah was super loud on the subwoofer! In that 1960's clip of the teen's coming of age party, the black actor was a young Lou Rawls a popular R&B/Soul singer.
I have actually heard of "Angel, Angel Down We Go." However, I never would've known that Holly Near, lesbian poetess leading light of the Women's Music scene starred in it as a wayward debutante banging her father's pool boy lover, or whoever that was. The only one I have seen of all those movies and TV shows you named is "Harper." I agree about those tacky moorish arches around the pool. I would love to see old photos of parties from 85 years ago. There was a mansion on San Vicente Blvd. where Marion and W. R.'s secret daughter, Patricia Van Cleve, lived with her family and Marion toward the end of Marion's life. I had been under the impression that it was torn down a few decades ago, but maybe it was this house where they all lived together, and there was not another house on San Vicente.
Love your videos. Very concise storytelling. I, too am a Charlie's Angels fan. I watched every episode in first airing then again in reruns when it went to syndication.
Your Bogart here, is look-alike Robert Sacchi, who did Bogey most of his rather limited career. Another Bogey, not so well done, and given short shrift in too-brief glimpses, was Jerry Lacy, in Woody Allen's PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. If you gotta try for Bogey, I'm going with Sacchi. Great tour of this indelibly atmospheric mansion.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO, Thanks for sharing. Your one of the reasons why I love you- tube and keep up with my subscription every month. I could watch your Video's all day long.
I enjoyed your presentation of this. I will say I was ready to not like it but after five minutes of listening to your fun, talking with a friend way of presenting was fun and engaging. I was ready for brain dead banter that would frustrate. You however showed a perfect reverence for the history and story of the people, the city and architecture. This was well done and enjoyable. Thank you P.S did you also wish you went to Griffith Park more when you heard George Michael was arrested there for having sex? I was living in Hollywood on Romaine so I think you were closer😄😄😄
I know the film was mainly shot in a soundstage but there were some outdoor shots as well for which a property in L.A. was used - i am referring to the 1985 movie "Clue" with the great Tim Curry. Would you happen to know which L.S. mansion doubled as the Clue mansion? Thanks ;-)
Just watched this following the 3-part Murder Mystery. Another interesting video! Thank you!! You mentioned the death of that producer...There was some speculation that he was murdered at San Simeon and moved back to his house; that the murder scene was staged. That would make an interesting story. Or the death of Jean Harlow's second husband sounds rather mysterious, too, with the studio execs. getting involved with the 'crime scene' before the police were notified. Just a thought. Anyway, thank you again for your time and talent!!
Fantastic video! Loved all the Marion and William stories and awesome they knocked her out to take away the body. What else did "they" take? Never knew the part about him being saved financially by her either. Really interesting vid and will have to find interiors. You're simply the best! ❤🌴🎶
Just found this video. Very good episode with the right mix of hollywood history, architecture and movie/TV trivia. I do have a question on the Charlie's Angel episode, do they say the painting looks like Cheryl Ladd (or the character she plays) because I thought it was neat they had the painting resemble Marion Davies!!
The small house at the entrance is called a 'Gate House' and yes is to house the Security Staff members. Agree with you Justin about those 'Arcades'..........they are overkill Beverly Hills tacky. All the photos I've every seen of this house shows them existing. Possibly they were hidden by brought in trees/shrubbery or removed in the films editing room.
I love it. I really wish you had put the Lucifer episode in, now I'm curious and must go back to see which one (I'm a huge fan of that show). The video was fantastic, thanks!
Splendid old mansion from the 1920s. The poolside arches are Venetian, while the house is Romanesque, which is rather jarring. According to the book DREAM PALACES, HOLLYWOOD AT HOME by Charles Lockwood, Hearst purchased the place for $120,000 (!!) in the late 1940s when his health forced him to leave his castle at San Simeon.
A excellent and seriously underrated video. I especially liked the historic clips used in real time shots of the property then/now which really brought it all to life. Plus the sublime commentary…pay attention children it’s going to be a moderately snarky ride. Perhaps some seasonal catty as well. Great job. P.S. When I got my first Mustang II, I would secretly pretend to be the astute and understatedly elegant Miss Sabrina Duncan. Except with a penis and without the astuteynessness. But Sabrina nonetheless.
I just watched the episode of Charlie's Angels based on your recommendation, great show!! I think this "house" is a bit gaudy for my taste way too much to clean!! LOL!! :)
I didn't know the children of Hearst, and the doctor drugged Marion Davies and not let her be with R. Hearst at his death bed. She was the one taking care of Hearst till the end, and she summoned the Hearst kids to say their good buys at her house she shared with R. Hearst. Very sad they did that.
The Peter Bogdanovich movie "The Cat's Meow" presents a widely-rumored version of the passing of producer Tom Ince aboard W.R. Hearst's yacht and the origin of Hearst columnist Louella Parsons' lifetime contract, beautifully filmed with a wonderful cast. The rumors were fanned by differing news accounts of the time and place of Mr. Ince's passing. Marion Davies addressed and dismissed the rumors in her autobiography "The Times We Had" (well worth a read for fans of Old Hollywood and/or Miss Davies, Hearst history, et al.). W.R.'s granddaughter Patricia Hearst wrote a novel "Murder At San Simeon" painting a portrait of Marion Davies that reflects the pain and heartache W.R. Hearst's and Ms. Davies' affair caused Mr. Hearst's wife and family.
Interesting to see, but the sound balance is way off. The narration volume is the low end, and all the music is blatantly loud when left at the same volume. Video elements were good, though.
I like that you spent so much time around the house, giving folks a chance to see details. More of the inside though! A line of arches on a building is an Arcade, many of the Calif missions are fronted by one (“Vertigo”s San Juan Bautista, but not San Francisco). A line of columns, but no arches, is a colonnade. Why the after-market arcade was given a moorish look (since the arches on the house are round) is curious. There is a Spanish + Moorish connection in Spain, but not in this house. You don’t see a lot of Hedda Hopper in front of the camera (“Sunset Boulevard”), her pen did its damage behind the scenes. Still, when her mug shows up on celluloid, it doesn’t hurt to pin her nastiness where it will do the most good: The old bag was a rabid, anti-communist hysteric who spied on and reported people to HUAC, destroying who knows how many careers and lives as Washington lost the thread and forgot what they were fighting for.
There was a movie made, somewhat fictional but about WRH accidentally shooting a guys on his Yacht and that Hadda Hopper helped keep it under the radar and kept her employed.
Hopefully, it won't become bulldozer bait and the lot subdivided and redeveloped like so many in Beverly Hills. The house does look a bit tired on the inside and it retained will take tens of millions of dollars to bring it back.
Love the hair, not impressed with the house, however, the grounds, lovely. Why remove the beautiful palms? You are great as always, you might consider a windguard at some point.
What an amazing video, Justin! I was also there the day of the sale and I wish I had seen your extraordinary video before I visited this landmark house. Congrats!!!!
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Justin I agree with you whole heartedly… we need more fun movies… I was a teenager in the 80s and most everything was fun, music was great , clothes were fun as there were so many styles: mod, 50s, new wave, rock, Madonna look, Cindy Lauper look, big hair… just a fun fun time.
Thanks for giving Miss Davies some of the recognition she deserves - as her own remarkable person, not just her relationship with Hearst.
It was her home, not Hearst’s. And she had very little resemblance to Susan Alexander - who married and divorced Kane and who when she met Kane had no connection w show business, while Davies was a successful Ziegfeld girl.
I first took notice of this house in an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. It was filmed a few years after Marion Davis died, I think it might have been the first to use it as a filming location. The pool was drained and it didn't look as magnificent as it does in later movies and shows, but I fell in love with the home and grounds. It reminded me of the line in Sunset Blvd whe Joe describes Norma's home as "The kind crazy movie people built in the crazy 20s."
It was originally built by a banker, not a crazy movie person.
Thank you so much. I'm 65. I've been a huge fan of hers for over 40 years. I read an autobiography. I've known about this house and all her houses. Love this house. All the movies done there. To get to see this house thrilling. I enjoy all your work. Whitney heights, fascinating. I'm an old Hollywood fan. I've driven through all of Beverly hills, etc .
Thanks for showing the history of Hollywood on a positive note ❤😊
There was a huge warehouse at San Simeon where Hearst had tons of things stored for the castle. Most likely
that fireplace mantle was in the warehouse and shipped south for use in the home there! The Chief also had a five story main warehouse in New York where most of his European finds ended up before being shipped to Hearst's private wharf at San Simeon, Ca. After the family turned 120 hill top acres and the castle over to the State of Ca. The Hearst corp. sold most of the items in the warehouse. The Madonna Inn at slo has a marble balustrade leading upstairs to the gift shops which Alex Madonna bought from that warehouse sale along with other items to include huge carved entry ways, plaster of paris pieces copied in marble on the hill by Italian artisans in residence there.
Didn't realise ms Davies was such a nice person, terrific vlog. !
My goodness, it's spectacular. I thought the arcades were ok until I saw the pic without them. Thank you for making this fabulous video.
Jennifer Jones came to Hollywood with her then-husband, Robert Walker, probably best known today for Strangers on a Train. She began her relationship with Selznick while still married to Walker (who had his own battle with mental health).
Justin ! Love this video, I have been fascinated with the history of this house. My Aunt & Uncle took me there when I was 12, but I could only peek over the road. Was for sale many times. I appreciate the films you mentioned . Will watch the one with Jennifer Jones, one of my favorite actresses. We went to San Simeon right after the Patty Hearst debacle. There was a bomb planted in one of the entry ways with the black smoke staining the stone. 1977 my first trip to California I was home.
You have done a lot of research and it shows. Thank you I enjoyed watching this.
Great job bringing together all the clips of past movies and TV series filmed at the mansion. Thoroughly enjoyed the tour!
Your commentary is excellent, I'm glad I'm following you ❤ thank you
Incredible video Justin 🥂
Enjoyed watching it very much!
Love Harper / Flech / Bodyguard movies 🎬
Good stuff 👏
This was so well researched. Thanks for the video.
"And remember how much I wanted a big backyard with Grecian statues, S- shaped hedges, and three swimming pools? Well, I got that too."
Great job with this video, the property, history and interspliced footage with the shows, films and story. Love what you do!
You were born to make great videos. PLEASE do not stop! And Nina is fantastic. :D
I lived on the ortheast side of milwaukee and the mansions all had beautiful furniture custom made for them...
Expensive but lasts forever.
I love to go to the estate sales as many are early empty
Excellent video!!
Yvonne DeCarlo was in the Bogart movie as well.
Congratulations on the video. This house is spectacular. A hug from 🇧🇷
That beach house was legendary.
Great video, full of rich history. I appreciate all of your research and video clips! Would love for you to make a video on Greystone Mansion!!
Iconic House!!!
@10:15 The outside of the home is beautiful. It’s amazing how color makes a difference.
It's kinda crazy how you can see some similarities of the Greystone Mansion and Hearst Castle in this home.
Another tour that you knocked outta the ballpark !! So fascinating and informative. Thank you
Thank you for keeping it alive. You are awesome ❤😊
Thank you
This was really well done. Informative and entertaining, well researched and many photos and clips. A lot of content creators seem to just wanna show their big faced close ups. The wind/earthquake made me laugh, yeah was super loud on the subwoofer! In that 1960's clip of the teen's coming of age party, the black actor was a young Lou Rawls a popular R&B/Soul singer.
I have actually heard of "Angel, Angel Down We Go." However, I never would've known that Holly Near, lesbian poetess leading light of the Women's Music scene starred in it as a wayward debutante banging her father's pool boy lover, or whoever that was. The only one I have seen of all those movies and TV shows you named is "Harper." I agree about those tacky moorish arches around the pool. I would love to see old photos of parties from 85 years ago.
There was a mansion on San Vicente Blvd. where Marion and W. R.'s secret daughter, Patricia Van Cleve, lived with her family and Marion toward the end of Marion's life. I had been under the impression that it was torn down a few decades ago, but maybe it was this house where they all lived together, and there was not another house on San Vicente.
Love your videos. Very concise storytelling.
I, too am a Charlie's Angels fan. I watched every episode in first airing then again in reruns when it went to syndication.
Apparently the two floor library was built for Milton Getz’ wife, Estelle, collected rare books. He was the original owner.
Justin thank you for the tour of this house. I always thought that San Simeon was her only property.
Great video. That’s awesome u got to see it and share it. Thank you. I love old Hollywood history
Your Bogart here, is look-alike Robert Sacchi, who did Bogey most of his rather limited career. Another Bogey, not so well done, and given short shrift in too-brief glimpses, was Jerry Lacy, in Woody Allen's PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. If you gotta try for Bogey, I'm going with Sacchi. Great tour of this indelibly atmospheric mansion.
Great video...Thanks for making it.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO, Thanks for sharing. Your one of the reasons why I love you- tube and keep up with my subscription every month. I could watch your Video's all day long.
I enjoyed your presentation of this. I will say I was ready to not like it but after five minutes of listening to your fun, talking with a friend way of presenting was fun and engaging. I was ready for brain dead banter that would frustrate.
You however showed a perfect reverence for the history and story of the people, the city and architecture. This was well done and enjoyable. Thank you
P.S did you also wish you went to Griffith Park more when you heard George Michael was arrested there for having sex? I was living in Hollywood on Romaine so I think you were closer😄😄😄
Just got back from a trip to San Simeon where they mentioned this home. Thanks for the tour!
Oh, Justin, you beautiful guy !!!
really enjoyed this. thank you
Watching harper. Seen it but didn't know it was this house. Always enjoy Paul Newman!!
This was awesome.
Jesus Christ! Level out your music! YOU ARE BLASTING OUT THE WHOLE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I like it painted white!!
Justin , thank you for the tour. Can you tell me the name of the movie , the one with the girl having her big coming out party. Thank you❤
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I know the film was mainly shot in a soundstage but there were some outdoor shots as well for which a property in L.A. was used - i am referring to the 1985 movie "Clue" with the great Tim Curry. Would you happen to know which L.S. mansion doubled as the Clue mansion?
Thanks ;-)
I USES TO WORK AT HEARST CASTLE
Love your videos, they are so informative.
Glad this house still exists & is cared for. So much of LA history has been destroyed. Such a shame.
The bedrooms n kitchen, the most important! 😊
Can you imagine moving into this place and thinking of it as a “downgrade?!?” 😮
yes, that pool is the one from my I’m-suddenly-filthy-rich-fantasy, though I too could do w/o the…whats? the colonades.
Just watched this following the 3-part Murder Mystery. Another interesting video! Thank you!! You mentioned the death of that producer...There was some speculation that he was murdered at San Simeon and moved back to his house; that the murder scene was staged. That would make an interesting story. Or the death of Jean Harlow's second husband sounds rather mysterious, too, with the studio execs. getting involved with the 'crime scene' before the police were notified. Just a thought.
Anyway, thank you again for your time and talent!!
Absolutely terrific video.
Love ❤ your respect and class😊
Fantastic video! Loved all the Marion and William stories and awesome they knocked her out to take away the body. What else did "they" take? Never knew the part about him being saved financially by her either. Really interesting vid and will have to find interiors. You're simply the best! ❤🌴🎶
Beautiful house
I forgot to add in my last comment, love your jazzy intro music🤗
Yes I’m with you bring back fun movies. Clean movies where sex is not involved and every word is the F word, so sick of that. Just fun clean movies.
This is awesome
I like the arcades! I guess it just depends on individual taste.
Love the 80s ❤😊
Just found this video. Very good episode with the right mix of hollywood history, architecture and movie/TV trivia. I do have a question on the Charlie's Angel episode, do they say the painting looks like Cheryl Ladd (or the character she plays) because I thought it was neat they had the painting resemble Marion Davies!!
The small house at the entrance is called a 'Gate House' and yes is to house the Security Staff members. Agree with you Justin about those 'Arcades'..........they are overkill Beverly Hills tacky. All the photos I've every seen of this house shows them existing. Possibly they were hidden by brought in trees/shrubbery or removed in the films editing room.
I love listening to you
I love it. I really wish you had put the Lucifer episode in, now I'm curious and must go back to see which one (I'm a huge fan of that show). The video was fantastic, thanks!
Splendid old mansion from the 1920s. The poolside arches are Venetian, while the house is Romanesque, which is rather jarring. According to the book DREAM PALACES, HOLLYWOOD AT HOME by Charles Lockwood, Hearst purchased the place for $120,000 (!!) in the late 1940s when his health forced him to leave his castle at San Simeon.
A excellent and seriously underrated video. I especially liked the historic clips used in real time shots of the property then/now which really brought it all to life. Plus the sublime commentary…pay attention children it’s going to be a moderately snarky ride. Perhaps some seasonal catty as well. Great job.
P.S. When I got my first Mustang II, I would secretly pretend to be the astute and understatedly elegant Miss Sabrina Duncan. Except with a penis and without the astuteynessness. But Sabrina nonetheless.
This was Marion Davies home, not Hearst's!!!!!
I just watched the episode of Charlie's Angels based on your recommendation, great show!! I think this "house" is a bit gaudy for my taste way too much to clean!! LOL!! :)
I didn't know the children of Hearst, and the doctor drugged Marion Davies and not let her be with R. Hearst at his death bed. She was the one taking care of Hearst till the end, and she summoned the Hearst kids to say their good buys at her house she shared with R. Hearst. Very sad they did that.
I noticed in the Charlie's Angels clip that the driver and the old women are Jan and Bobby Brady??? Did anyone else notice that?? Am I crazy???
Justin, didn't W.R H. Shoot Thomas Innis , on his yacht?
The Peter Bogdanovich movie "The Cat's Meow" presents a widely-rumored version of the passing of producer Tom Ince aboard W.R. Hearst's yacht and the origin of Hearst columnist Louella Parsons' lifetime contract, beautifully filmed with a wonderful cast. The rumors were fanned by differing news accounts of the time and place of Mr. Ince's passing. Marion Davies addressed and dismissed the rumors in her autobiography "The Times We Had" (well worth a read for fans of Old Hollywood and/or Miss Davies, Hearst history, et al.). W.R.'s granddaughter Patricia Hearst wrote a novel "Murder At San Simeon" painting a portrait of Marion Davies that reflects the pain and heartache W.R. Hearst's and Ms. Davies' affair caused Mr. Hearst's wife and family.
One of the best vids out there justin! Congrats!
It looks like Heaven Can Wait, another fun 80's movie was filmed on the grounds of this home, but maybe not. Does anybody know.
That was filmed at a house called the Filoli Mansion in Northern California
Filoli was also the Dynasty house too.
Interesting to see, but the sound balance is way off.
The narration volume is the low end, and all the music is blatantly loud when left at the same volume.
Video elements were good, though.
Love the Godfather
Wow
I like that you spent so much time around the house, giving folks a chance to see details. More of the inside though!
A line of arches on a building is an Arcade, many of the Calif missions are fronted by one (“Vertigo”s San Juan Bautista, but not San Francisco). A line of columns, but no arches, is a colonnade. Why the after-market arcade was given a moorish look (since the arches on the house are round) is curious. There is a Spanish + Moorish connection in Spain, but not in this house.
You don’t see a lot of Hedda Hopper in front of the camera (“Sunset Boulevard”), her pen did its damage behind the scenes. Still, when her mug shows up on celluloid, it doesn’t hurt to pin her nastiness where it will do the most good: The old bag was a rabid, anti-communist hysteric who spied on and reported people to HUAC, destroying who knows how many careers and lives as Washington lost the thread and forgot what they were fighting for.
There was a movie made, somewhat fictional but about WRH accidentally shooting a guys on his Yacht and that Hadda Hopper helped keep it under the radar and kept her employed.
Is this the one at SanSimone?
No, in Beverly Hills, 250 miles to,the South of San Simeon.
What's going on with the sound? The parts with music are very loud, the narration is muffled in places.
Rhude had a fashion show there.
Was this the same house they called Green Acres??
So if you turn off the volume the video is very pleasant !!!
Thank you so much for watching!
I want to go to California
How things have changed
Oh i like your hair like that.
Hopefully, it won't become bulldozer bait and the lot subdivided and redeveloped like so many in Beverly Hills. The house does look a bit tired on the inside and it retained will take tens of millions of dollars to bring it back.
I've been over 50 functions at that estate. Ask me anything.
Love the hair, not impressed with the house, however, the grounds, lovely. Why remove the beautiful palms? You are great as always, you might consider a windguard at some point.
Can't wait to see the movie withbt Jim Morrison knock off 😂
The Jerk😅😂
WRs nickname for Marian was "Rosebud".
Huh? Rumor, not fact.
Sorry (not sorry haha), but Cheryl Ladd is NOT an original Angel, so she doesn’t count! 😂
& looks WAY better without all those palm trees - they just look like telephone poles!
what was the name of the move with the gay husband
Mondo Beyondo
Justin must be gay the way he sounds
@@janethalverson3027 gay and proud! 🌈🌈
What an amazing video, Justin! I was also there the day of the sale and I wish I had seen your extraordinary video before I visited this landmark house. Congrats!!!!