Victrola in home of Barbara LeMarr, silent film actress

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Victrola in home of Barbara LeMarr, silent film actress

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Here is the house that silent film actress Barbara LeMarr lived in on 6672-½ Whitley Heights Terrace in the Hollywood Hills. In the living room stands what looks to be one of the "period" model Victrolas. Can anyone identify the model? In looking at the shorter lid and apparently straight sides, I'm guessing possibly a VV-350 or VV-105. Hopefully someone here has sharper and more educated eyes than I do:)
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The house is for sale in this listing, but the Victrola is no longer there...
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Retrograde wrote:The house is for sale but the Victrola is no longer there...
Probably someone moved it, would be my guess. Likely not Ms. LeMarr. She died in 1926.
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Re: Victrola in home of Barbara LeMarr, silent film actress

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Please guys- it's Barbara La Marr- lets at least spell it right.

She was a real beauty, and judging by the little I've seen of her work she was quite an actress. She also had the reputation of being a very nice person, though hard partying and drinking eroded her health until tuberculosis took her at 29.
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estott wrote: hard partying and drinking eroded her health until tuberculosis took her at 29.
Perhaps the partying didn't help matters. But she could have fell victim to TB any old way, regardless. It gets healthy people, too.
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estott wrote: hard partying and drinking .
Sounds like my kind of gal :D
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It is evident from the period photo of the room, that Miss LaMarr also owned a reproducing grand piano, brand unknown. The tip-off is the sets of double legs that were typical of reproducing grands in order to help support the weight of the additional mechanism.
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JohnM wrote:It is evident from the period photo of the room, that Miss LaMarr also owned a reproducing grand piano, brand unknown. The tip-off is the sets of double legs that were typical of reproducing grands in order to help support the weight of the additional mechanism.
Keen observation John. I'd have not picked up on that.

The house certainly looks more to my taste in the first pic btw. Nothing particularly interesting about the way it looks now inside...
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Valecnik wrote:
JohnM wrote:The house certainly looks more to my taste in the first pic btw. Nothing particularly interesting about the way it looks now inside...
I suspect that many of us who love old mechanical music machines are Edwardians misplaced in time. I think I am. :)

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Valecnik wrote:
The house certainly looks more to my taste in the first pic btw. Nothing particularly interesting about the way it looks now inside...
You took the words right out of my mouth. The room is a big YAWN now!
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