In 1957, Natalie met a handsome young actor named Robert Wagner who would later propose to her by secretly placing a pearl and diamond ring at the bottom of her glass of champagne.
Here, Natalie, Nick Adams, and Dennis Hopper are making dinner at the house in 1956. As Natalie’s sister Lana Wood wrote in her book Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, “Boys flowed in and out of our house…” perhaps setting the standard of a revolving door of high profile guests that would later proliferate once Mama Cass, of the Mama’s and the Papa’s, bought the house in the 1960s. The history of the home began in the early 1950s when Natalie Wood, then just a teenager but making waves in Hollywood, and her family built the house near Lookout Mountain.Īfter Natalie’s breakout role in Rebel Without a Cause in 1955, she began inviting her friends James Dean, Nick Adams, Sal Mineo, and Dennis Hopper over to the house for pool parties. But it was Natalie Wood’s Laurel Canyon house that would solidify the long lineage of Hollywood and counter culture heavyweight’s addresses changing hands that persists to this day. By the 1950s it became the home of hippest actors in Hollywood, including Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Dennis Hopper. Laurel Canyon began attracting Hollywood luminaries in the early 1920s when it was viewed as a remote, private location in the hills. The house, an enclosed English Country cabin, was the site of innumerable decadent parties, songwriting sessions, pool days, and shady drug deals. Laurel Canyon has long been a haven for artists, musicians, and actors, but there’s one particular home in the neighborhood with a star-studded roster of owners and overnighters that include: Natalie Wood, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Mama Cass, Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, and many, many more. Homes, Laurel Canyon 1960s and Nash Crosby Dennis Hopper Hollywood History Jimi Hendrix Joni Mitchell Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon history Laurel Canyon homes Mama Cass Natalie Wood Stills The Beatles 24 Comments
0 kommentar(er)
