Kirk Douglas House

515 WEST VIA LOLA
PALM SPRINGS

Designed by Donald Wexler and Richard Harrison, this Desert Modern residence was commissioned by actress Andrea Leeds and her husband, Robert Howard, owner of the nearby Colony Palms Hotel, in 1954. Kirk Douglas snapped it up just three years later and continued to hold onto it for the next four decades, welcoming such guests as Natalie Wood, Gregory Peck and Billy Wilder during his long tenure. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn even leased the house from Douglas for two summer getaways, and Vincente Minnelli and his fourth wife, Lee Anderson, held their wedding reception there. The pad boasts yet another claim to fame, as well – it cameoed as Jill St. John’s home in the 1971 James Bond movie “Diamonds Are Forever.”

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