WeHo Heights Hollywood History

Located a few feet above the famous nightlife of the Sunset Strip restaurants and clubs, WeHo Heights had a savory reputation of its own. Legend has it that the former site of 1230 Horn was a famous bordello during Prohibition.

The Shoreham Apartments in West Hollywood were built in 1937. It has a heavy roster of old Hollywood stars that used to live here…. Marlene Dietrich, Olivia de Havilland, John Huston, Vivian Vance, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Katherine Hepburn, Janet Leigh, Liberace, to name a few.

The following stars at one time called these addresses in WeHo Heights home:

Horn Avenue

1127-1/2 Horn

Anthony Perkins

1131 Horn

Ava Gardner*, James Dean*, Gloria Swanson (living here when made SUNSET BLVD)

1147 Horn

Warren Oates

1210 Horn

Humphrey Bogart & Mayo Methot

1217 Horn

Bette Davis, Earl Foxe

1224 Horn

John Webb Dillon

1229 Horn

Penny Edwards, Lena Horne, Aldous Huxley, Werner Klemperer & Kim Hamilton

1230 Horn

Jose Eber, Richard Grieco, Rick Hurst, Cory Monteith, Anthony Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Daniel Quinn, Warren Zevon

Horn (exact address unknown)

Marlene Dietrich, Anita Loos, John Garfield, C. Aubrey Smith

Shoreham Drive

8726 Shoreham

Sir Cedric Hardwicke

8727 Shoreham

Charles O'Connell

8728 Shoreham

Paulette Goddard

8741 Shoreham

Eartha Kitt

8747 Shoreham

Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Ice-T

8760 Shoreham

Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly

8770 Shoreham

Lina Basquette & J. Pev Marley

8787 Shoreham

Ellen Barkin & Gabriel Byrne, Humphrey Bogart & Mayo Methot, Jimmy Boyd, Jan Clayton, James Coco, Ronald Colman, Joseph Cotton, Billy Daniels, Olivia de Haviland, Paulette Goddard, Alexander Godunov, Miriam Hopkins, Evelyn Keyes, Peggy Lee, Mitchell Liesen, Diane Linkletter, Burgess Meredith, Patricia Medina, Liza Minelli, Chris Noth, Mary Parker, Axl Rose, David Lee Roth, Neil Sedaka, Danny Simon, Neil Simon, Ben Stein, Mamie Van Doren, Vivian Vance.

This is also the infamous site of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane's suicide.
At 9 a.m. on October 4, 1969, Linkletter jumped out of a window of her sixth-floor apartment at the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood, California. She was first taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, then to LAC+USC Medical Center where she died of injuries she sustained in the fall. Her father blamed her death, which the media widely reported at the time, on drug use, specifically LSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Linkletter#:~:text=entertain%20servicemen's%20families.-,Death,she%20sustained%20in%20the%20fall

https://www.housecreep.com/ee/8787-shoreham-dr-west-hollywood-ca-90069-us

8788 Shoreham

Louis Van Amstel

Reference for most: www.movielanddirectory.com, * ref. Joycie Fickett