Marlon Brando's Former Home
Are you looking for a home where you can stay out in the evening, particularly on warm nights? Do you want a home where you can have supper as the desert winds cross the hills?
If yes, have you heard about the Marlon Brando Hollywood Hills home situated above the Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip? If not, please read on to discover what the mediterranean style mansion has to offer.
Marlon Brando Home
The wild neo-Gothic Hollywood Hills home belonging to the late Marlon Brando has been listed on Compass for $4,295,000. If you have no idea about the home we are referring to, it is the same historic Hollywood Hills home where Marlon Brando was photographed in 1955 after he scooped his first Oscar for best actor.
The Hollywood Hills home is also where Marlon Brando played the bongos for Edward R. Murrow. Marlon also showed off the home during his one-on-one with Edward R. Murrow of Person to Person.
Marlon Brandon’s former mansion, which resembles a castle was also once home to the renowned actress Ann Miller of the triple threat. The mediterranean-style mansion has been modernized, but most of the rooms still have the same dramatic architecture Leicht originally created.
John Gilbert Getty of the J. Paul Getty oil family last bought the property in 2018 for $3,900,000.
Who Built Marlon Brando’s Mansion
Marlon Brando’s statement-making mansion has been listed on Compass Marc Silver. According to the listing, the 1926 Laurel View Residence was designed by the renowned architect A.F. Leicht.
Adolphus Frederick Leicht was in high demand during the days of old Hollywood, which was between 1922 and 1929. Leicht has built several statement-making residences in Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, as well as Hancock Park.
A.F. Leicht combined French Renaissance and Spanish Revival architecture to bring his unique architectural design and vision to life. Leicht was once known as, “L.A’s quirkiest dead architect.”
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Location of Marlon Brandon Hollywood House
The Marlon Brandon’s mansion is situated on 8142 Laurel View Drive, in Los Angeles, CA 90046. The home features 270-degree jetliner view of the ocean, and it is perched in Sunset Strip-Hollwood Hills West (C03).
The home overlooks the 1923 storer residence of Frank Lloyd Wright’s, and the 1925 home of Charles Kyson De Witt. The posh mansion is minutes away from high-end restaurants, entertainment hot-spots, and luxurious shopping malls.
The sense of privacy, proximity to nightlife in L.A, as well as the breathtaking views explain why the Hollywood Hills homes are loved by celebrities from the film, music, and sports entertainment industries.
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Features of Marlon Brando Sunset Strip Home
The Laurel View Drive home features about 4363 square feet of dramatic architecture, which is complete with neo-Gothic detailing, towers, as well as octagonal rooms.
The 4 storey building has grand rooms with stunning views of the Los Angeles skyline, and floor to ceiling windows. It features Tuscan-style tiled flooring, and vaulted ceilings, which create volume and space.
The mansion has two winding staircases, which lead to the informal large living room. The winding staircases and wrought iron balcony certainly give the mansion an old Hollywood glamour look. Along the staircases are slitted windows, which give the mansion a Victorian Gothic feel.
The voluminous step-down living room features a limestone fireplace, as well as walls of glass. The huge living room of the Mediterranean style mansion is where Marlon Brando was photographed with his first Oscar in 1955 for On the Waterfront movie.
It has 4-bedrooms on the second floor. The master suite features a sunroom, sitting area, and incredible city views. Besides the vaulted ceilings that you will find in each bedroom, there’s also the Juliette balcony, which draws the Los Angeles skyline inside. The wide bedroom windows will allow you to look across the city. From the bedroom windows, you can be able to view the West Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles.
The house has five tiled bathrooms, which include 4 full bathrooms, and 1 half bathroom. Other interior features worth noting include a sunlit dining room that can seat more that 15 people, a statement making breakfast room, and the newly renovated kitchen. From the dining room, you can view the flat green garden.
The mansion also has a library with in-built shelves, laundry area, and 2 limestone fireplaces, which take center stage of the ambient living room. Other amenities include the wine cellar, solarium, guest maids’ quarters, den/office, rounded art studio, central air for cooling, curved hallways, and built-in equipment.
External Features
External features that will capture your attention include the flying buttresses, circular towers, the red-tile roofing, heavy antique front door, and the grassy yard located at the back of the mansion.
From the yard, you can be able to view the beautiful and bustling city of Los Angeles, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright’s storer house and Charles Kyson’s De Witt house. The exterior of the house also has 2 covered parkings. The 2 parking garages are detached.
One downside of the Marlon Brando home is that it does not have a swimming pool, and a Spa. However, the flat green garden in front of the formal dining room has enough room for a pool.
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In Conclusion
The Marlon Brandon Hollywood Hills home has several bright and airy rooms, which occupy a living area of 4363 square feet. You can be able to view the bustling city of Los Angeles from grand rooms, which have vaulted ceilings.
If you are looking for a spacious residential single-family home, be sure to check out the Hollywood Hills home situated on 8142 Laurel View Drive. What’s more, if you love the view of picture-perfect sunsets, city lights and the ocean, you will definitely love the Marlon Brando Laurel View Drive home. However, the home is unfurnished.
The rooms of the home belonging to former actor of the Godfather and Last Tango in Paris are fit for huge gatherings. In fact, Brandon would hold gatherings with his star-studded circle, which consisted of people like Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, as well as the famed influential writer James Baldwin.
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