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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."
Sumner Spaulding (1892–1952) was an American architect and city planner.He is best known for designing the Harold Lloyd Estate, a.k.a. Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California, the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, and the Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Upon its completion in 1929, [5] Greenacres had a private 9-hole golf course, one of the largest pools in the western US, and a miniature English village built for Lloyd's daughter, Gloria. After Harold Lloyd's death in 1971, the property was left to his family, but mounting debt and a delinquency on the promissory note led City National Bank ...
Greenacres, the legendary 1920s Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California (United States) Greenacres, Florida, town in the United States; Greenacres, Washington, a neighborhood in the city of Spokane Valley in the United States; Greenacres, South Australia, town in Australia; Greenacres, neighbourhood of Motherwell, Scotland
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.
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Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent Southern Gothic comedy horror film, produced and co-directed by Hal Roach, [1] starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. The short film has a comedic version of a typical haunted house tale, and a dispute over a family's inheritance. A young woman is the heiress to a mansion and a plantation, but only if ...