The Ernst Lubitsch Property -- in-built Bel-Air for the Berlin-born producer, author and actor of the identical title -- was final listed greater than six a long time in the past.
Anthony Barcelo for Douglas Elliman
The Los Angeles residence of one in every of Hollywood’s traditional administrators has hit the marketplace for $19.99 million.
The Ernst Lubitsch Property — in-built Bel-Air for the Berlin-born producer, author and actor of the identical title — was final listed greater than six a long time in the past.
The five-bedroom, eight-bathroom property has been featured in quite a few lists of LA’s best properties through the years and is steeped in old-world allure past its historical past and into its basis.
“It’s a time warp in the very best of the way,” Douglas Elliman agent Josh Flagg, who holds the 9,292-square-foot itemizing, informed The Submit. “All people drives by and wonders what’s up there, as a result of you possibly can’t see it from the road — that is the primary time it’s been seen in a few years.”
Regardless of its mysterious fame, since being constructed in 1934 the home and grounds have hosted numerous dignitaries, kings, presidents and entertainers.
“Legends like Garbo, Colbert, Rathbone, Gaynor, Lang, Marlene Dietrich graced the visitor e-book,” marketed a 1999 Bel-Air Affiliation Property Tour of the property.
The house, which was “impressed by the white-washed brickworks of Mexico,” has 5 bedrooms, eight bogs and eight wood-burning fireplaces. The three-time Oscar-nominated director, who handed away in 1947, had the house constructed with uncovered beams, red-tile flooring, oversize bricks and hand-smoothed white plaster partitions. Most of the authentic particulars stay intact.
Arrange a non-public drive on barely over an acre of greenery, the principle home additionally features a main suite with a balcony, a walk-in closet and dressing room — and a lower-level cantina for entertaining. “Steps away” from the first property is a separate casita. Out of doors highlights embrace a “large swimming pool, vegetable gardens, and expansive outside loggias,” in response to the itemizing.
The sellers are a married couple recognized for internet hosting charity capabilities attended by European the Aristocracy and globetrotting. They’ve occupied the home for the previous 62 years.
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