On January 25, 1958, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz closed escrow on the Culver City studios and backlot that had once belonged to RKO-Pathé and before that David O. Selznick. After paying $6,150,000, they took possession of the property and hung out the Desilu shingle. After that, television soon became the primary business conducted on the site. You can always tell which studio this is by the iconic multi-columned admin building known as The Mansion, which Selznick used as his logo.
Here is a list of show made by Desilu Productions in 1964:
The studios are still there, now known as the Culver Studios and is where Amazon films most of its films and TV shows. This image is from a November 2021 article on Urbanize.
Cool. This would about the time I had a sleep-over at a friend’s house just east of the studio. My friend’s dad worked at the studio, and they knew a few people. All I can remember is that they were good friends with Tony Dow (Wally on “Leave it to Beaver”), and they said he was a real nice guy.
In the late sixties, early seventies my mother was Gregory Pecks secretary. He had an office in the old Desilu Studio. I used to go there all the time. Their office was nextdoor to Bob Newhart’s office. Just a bit of old Hollywood history.
And what an interesting bit of old Hollywood, too! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Was this the office that had the maritime paintings along the wall? I worked on that lot from 1980-1997 and we used to call it “the ship room”. Word was that Selznick had the paintings done for Peck, but I can’t verify it.
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