There is some dispute about who owned the house Bob Mizer leased for photo sessions on Bellagio Road in Bel Air. It was built between 1930 and 1932 by Wallace Neff for the producer Sol M. Wurtzel and his wife Marian, and acquired by Anthony Norvell, the celebrity astrologer, and his wife Edna Dodge Johnson following their marriage in 1948. (The Norvells separated in 1954; Mrs. Norvell survived her estranged husband and died in 1990, aged 104.)
The first appearance of the house I can place in the AMG canon is in Dale Curry’s catalogue from 1949, when it might still have belonged to the Wurtzels.
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ReplyDeleteWhoever owned that mansion sure didn’t mind the beefcake ! Perhaps Mizer gave the owner physique photos for the use of the mansion. :)
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