10. Reproduction of the note attached to the water sample, B. J. Firminger, Beverly Hills Citizen, May 9, 1941.
11. “Beverly Hills Is Hit at Realty Convention,” Los Angeles Record, December 9, 1922.
12. “The Weather: Official Report,” Los Angeles Times, April 24 1923.
13. B. J. Firminger, “The Story of Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills Citizen, May 16, 1941.
14. “Beverly Beats Annexation,” Los Angeles Examiner, April 25, 1923.
15. Section 3, City of Beverly Hills Resolution #73, dated March 12, 1923.
16. “Beverly Beats Annexation,” Los Angeles Examiner, April 25, 1923.
17. Firminger, “The Story of Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills Citizen, May 16, 1941.
18. “Annexation Is Rejected by Beverly,” Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1923.
19. “Beverly Beats Annexation,” Los Angeles Examiner, April 25, 1923.
20. Ibid.
21. “Annexation Is Rejected by Beverly,” Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1923.
22. Pierce E. Benedict and Don Kennedy, History of Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills, CA: A. H. Cawston and H. M. Meier, 1934).
23. Firminger, “The Story of Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills Citizen, May 16, 1941.
24. Ibid.
25. Benedict and Kennedy, History of Beverly Hills.
26. Firminger, “The Story of Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills Citizen, May 16, 1941.
27. “Extracts from notes taken from Paul. E. Schwab, September 18, 1962.” Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Library Special Collections.
28. Lawrence Quirk, The Kennedys in Hollywood (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX: Taylor Publications, 1996).
29. Firminger, “The Story of Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills Citizen, May 16, 1941.
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Alba, Duke and Duchess of
Alvarado, Juan Bautista
Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Lewis
Anderson, Margaret
Anderson, Ruth
Anderson, Stanley
Arbuckle, Roscoe (“Fatty”)
Ball, Lucille
Bara, Theda
Barrymore, John
Beery, Wallace
Belasco, David
Benedict, Edison A.
Benedict, Pierce
Bennett, Enid
Biscailuz, W.
Blair, Charlie
Boag, Margaret. See Anderson, Margaret
Bono, Sonny
Bosworth, Hobart
Bow, Clara
Bowen, E. R.
Brady, Matthew
Brem, Walter
Brownlow, Kevin
Bryan, William Jennings
Buck, Pearl S.
Burke, Billie
Burns, William John
Canfield, Charles A.
Catlin, Charles
Chandler, Harry
Chaplin, Charlie
Christy, Howard Chandler
Coffin, Haskell
Cohan, George M.
Cohan, Josephine
Cohen, Mickey
Colman, Ronald
Cook, Wilbur David
Coolidge, Calvin
Coward, Noël
Cram, Ralph Adams
Crawford, Charlie
Creel, George
Cryer, George
Culver, R. J.
Dansinger, Jake
Darrow, Clarence
Davies, Marion
Davis, Richard Harding
Dean, Priscilla
Delmont, Maude
deMille, Cecil B.
deMille, William C.
Denison, Frank G.
Denker, Charles
Dickie, Walter M.
Dodd, Neal
Doheny, Edward
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Melvyn
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Dressler, Marie
Duffy, Olive. See Thomas, Olive
Durfee, Minta
Earhart, Amelia
Eastwood, Clint
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert
Elizabeth I (queen)
Emerson, John
Fairbanks, Beth
Fairbanks, Douglas
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Fairbanks, Ella
Fairbanks, John, Jr.
Fairbanks, John, Sr.
Fairbanks, Robert
Fauntleroy (“Little Lord”)
Firminger, B. J.
Fischbach, Fred
Fisher, Harrison
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fogg, Clark
Forde, Victoria
Fox, John B.
Fox, William
Frank, Leo
Franken, Al
Fratantoni, Michael A.
Frémont, John C.
Gage, Merrell
Garbo, Greta
Gebhart, Myrtle
Gibbs, William
Gibson, Charles Dana
Gibson, Margaret (“Gibby”)
Gilespie, C. G.
Gilette, King
Gish, Dorothy
Gish, Lillian
Glassell, Steve
Goessel, Tracey
Goudrey, F. R.
Graham, S. C.
Green, Burton
Grey, Elmer
Griffin, C. G.
Griffith, Corinne
Griffith, D. W.
Hammel, Henry
Hancock, Henry
Haney, Francis
Harding, Ned
Harding, Warren G.
Harris, Mildred
Hayes, Will
Hays, Will H.
Hearst, William Randolph
Heney, Francis J.
Hennessey, Charlotte
Hennessey, John Pickford
Homer, Frank
Hopkins, George James
Horsley, David
Horsley, William
Hunnewell, William
Huntington, Henry E.
Ince, Thomas H.
Janis, Elsie
Johnson, Kirk
Joyce, William
Keaton, Buster
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, Joseph P.
Kerckhoff, William G.
Keyes, Asa
Kimball, Claude
Kirchner, Raphael
Korda, Michael
Kuehl, Sheila
Laemmle, Carl
Lansing, Robert
Larson, Cedric
Lasky, Jesse L.
Lehrer, Tom
Lewis, Harrison
Liedtke, Frederick. See Niblo, Fred
Lindbergh, Charles
Lippincott, J. B.
Lloyd, Harold
Lloyd, Sue
Loew, Marcus
Longpré, Paul de
Loos, Anita
Lubitsch, Ernst
Madsen, Blackie
March, Ella
Marion, Frances
Marshall, James
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mayer, Louis B.
McAdoo, William
McBride, George
McFarland, J. M.
McKim, Robert
McLean, Douglas
McNally, Andrew
McNally, Rand
McNamara, James B.
McNamara, John J.
Minter, Mary Miles
Mix, Tom
Mock, James, R.
Moore, Owen
Morgan, J. P.
Morosco, Oliver
Morrison, Marion. See Wayne, John
Mountbatten, Louis
Mulholland, William
Munson
, Jack
Murphy, Al
Murphy, George
Nagel, Conrad
Neff, Edwin
Neff, Wallace
Negri, Pola
Niblo, Fred K.
Nixon, Richard (“Tricky Dick”)
Normand, Mabel
O’Hara, Mary
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Otis, Harrison Gray
Pabst, Norman
Page, Raymond
Parker, Force
Parrot, Kent Kane
Peavey, Henry
Perry, Kathryn
Phagan, Mary
Phillips, Clara (“Tiger Woman”)
Pickford, Charlotte
Pickford, Jack
Pickford, Lottie
Pickford, Mary
Pillsbury, Arthur
Portola, Gaspar de
Prince, H. F.
Rappe, Virginia
Ray, Charles
Ray, Mrs. Charles
Reagan, Ronald
Remington, Frederic
Roach, Hal
Robinson, Harry
Robinson, J. W.
Robinson, Virginia
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Salisbury, A. J.
Schenck, Joseph M.
Schwab, Paul E.
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Selig, William
Selznick, Lewis J.
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelby, Charlotte
Sherman, Lowell
Shriver, Maria
Siam, King and Queen of
Smith, Gladys Louise. See Pickford, Mary
Smith, John
Sonderegger, A. L.
Soulay, John G.
Spalding, Silsby
Spence, Ed E.
Springer, Jerry
St. Johns, Adela Rogers
Starr, Kevin
Stearns, Frederick K.
Stone, Irving
Sufton, Colonel
Sully, Beth. See also Fairbanks, Beth
Swanson, Gloria
Taylor, William Desmond
Thomas, Bernard
Thomas, Olive
Thompson, Fred
Thomson, Fred
Toberman, C. E.
Toberman, John
Traeger, William I.
Traucht, Ivan
Trump, Donald
Tuller, Walter
Ullman, Charles
Ullman, Douglas Elton Thomas. See Fairbanks, Douglas
Valdez, Eugenio
Valdez, Sebastiana
Valdez, Vicente
Valdez family
Valdez Villa, Maria Rita
Valentino, Rudolph
Vargas, Alberto
Ventura, Jesse
Villa, Vicente
Warner, Jack
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Wellburn, Lillian
Wells, H. G.
Whittier, Max
Wilcox, Daeida
Wilcox, Edward
Wilcox, Harvey
Williams, Gregory Paul
Wilson, Benjamin Davis
Wilson, Woodrow
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of
Woolwine, J. K.
Woolwine, Thomas Lee
Workman, William
Works, Judge Louis R.
Zetterburg, A. (“Zett”)
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Zukor, Adolph
About the Author
NANCIE CLARE has been a Southern California–based journalist and writer her entire career, which includes eleven years as an editor at Los Angeles Magazine and, most recently, editor in chief of the award-winning LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has also contributed articles to the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Review of Books, NYU Alumni Magazine, and Coast Magazine. The chief interviewer for the podcast Speaking of Mysteries, Clare lives in Los Angeles. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas and the Invention of Beverly Hills
2. The Beverly Hills Hotel and the Birth of Its Namesake City
3. Setting the Stage
4. A Crash Course in Influence
5. Veni, Vidi, Vici
6. The War Against Hollywood and the Lasting Legacy of Bad Behavior
7. Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills …
8. “California’s Floating Kidney Transplanted from the Midwest”
9. Dramatis Personae
10. Playing with Fire
11. On Their Own
Photographs
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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