Notable Residents

Choreographer and director Busby Berkeley (1895–1972).

Child actor Jackie Coogan (1914–1984).

Actor Jackie Cooper (b. 1921).

Figure skater Linda Fratianne (b. 1960).

Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster (b. 1962).

Ballerina Cynthia Gregory (b. 1946).

Actor Dustin Hoffman (b. 1937).

Actress Marilyn Monroe (1926–62).

Sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–88).

Conductor Leonard Slatkin (b. 1944).

Baseball players Duke Snyder (b. 1926) and Darryl Strawberry (b. 1962).

Famous residents include countless film stars and directors, of whom some of the earliest were:

Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959).

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1883–1939).

Mary Pickford (1893–1979).