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Built in the late 1920s by silent film star Harold Lloyd, it remained Lloyd's home until his death in 1971. The estate originally consisted of a 44-room mansion, golf course, outbuildings, and 900-foot (270 m) canoe run on 15 acres (61,000 m 2). Greenacres has been called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created."
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. [1]One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947.
Ramón Gil Samaniego [1] (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor.He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. [1] He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.
Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 [1] [2] – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, [3] and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, [4] the Mabel ...
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; [1] January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films .
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; [1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.. Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year.
Corinne Griffith (née Griffin; November 21, 1894 – July 13, 1979) was an American film actress, producer, author and businesswoman.Dubbed "The Orchid Lady of the Screen," [1] she was widely regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses of the silent film era.