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Buster Keaton's Italian Villa is a historic home of Beverly Hills, California, United States a TK current 1018 Pamela Drive. Original address 1004 Hartford Way in Beverly Hills.

Slightly less opulent than Pickfair or Green Acres, the house was grand by any other measure, with five bedrooms and quarters for six servants.

Constructed for $200,000 and furnished for roughly $100,000

California Italinate with 30 rooms

gardens designed by a guy who had worked for Pope Pius XII

30 foot swimming pool "Romanesque"

20 room

3 acre

one of Beverly Hills' most celebrated properties

The home was later bought and sold by a chain of movie stars including Cary Grant and Tk and James Mason. It was James Mason and Partner who has a name who discovered that the home was a de facto silent movie treasure trove. Keaton had a detached shed where he edited his films. When he moved out, he left several film prints behind in the padlocked shed and there they remained, forgotten, for 30-odd years.

Hollywood's Legendary Homes

originally had U-shaped drive

Pamela Drive is named after Pamela Mason

In 1950s Masons sold off the steps, the swimming pool, half the driveway

Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton were roommates in the guest house in the 1950s.

Fanchon and Marco dancers

"Mechanized trout stream overhung by an aviary that followed the property line between Buster's land" and Tom Mix's house

1926 designed a mirror and dresser set for Natalie

Keaton–Talmadge first house Hancock Park
Muirfield home was featured in Architectural Digest in 1925.