Product Description: For more than 60 years, passersby have strained to catch a glimpse of maverick architect Harry Gesner’s houses in Southern California. This is the first book to examine Gesner’s architecture, tracing his career from 1945 to the present and opening the doors to 15 of Gesner’s intriguing homes, all located in or near Los Angeles and built in the 1950s and 1960s...read more

A Hollywood historian explores twenty-five extraordinary buildings and homes from Hollywood's Golden Age, offering in-depth, behind-the-scenes tours of these spectacular theaters, hotels, restaurants, and homes of such filmdom luminaries as Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, and Gloria Swanson.