Before there was a Beverly Hills for stars to move to, there was Whitley Heights. It was developed in the very early 1920s by HJ Whitley as a Mediterranean village on the steep hillsides opposite the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl. Its remoteness and relative inaccessibility became a draw for stars looking for some privacy, and attracted the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Barbara LaMarr, WC Fields, Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, and probably most famously Rudolph Valentino whose home there was called Falcon’s Lair. This is a (probably hand-tinted) postcard taken in the 1920s.