Actress Carol Burnett has completed extensive renovations on the Santa Barbara home she bought for about $2 million earlier this year.
Mr. Burnett, 66, is in New York preparing for the Oct. 30 previews and Nov. 21 opening of his Broadway production, the Stephen Sondheim musical revue “Putting It Together.”
“The house was gorgeous and now it’s amazing because she redid the whole house,” the source said. The house is located in Santa Barbara’s Montecito neighborhood.
Barnett has a penthouse on Wilshire Boulevard, which he has owned since 1997. The Emmy Award-winning actress, who played Helen Hunt’s mother on the NBC sitcom “Mad About You” (1996-99), plans to stay there for the duration of her visit. Although Montecito is a town, he “makes Montecito his first home,” the source added.
Barnett hired her friend, interior designer Anita Ludovici de Domenico, to redo the house, which was built in 1977 but has recently been renovated. De Domenico designed the interior of Barnett’s previous home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “The current Montecito home is similar to the Santa Fe home, but with ocean views,” the source said.
The wall that separated the Montecito home’s dining room and living room was torn down, a bath built in the master suite, and the kitchen rearranged. The Mediterranean-style home has three bedrooms and is located on a lot of approximately 5,000 square feet.
The actress was represented in the purchase by Sue Kogen and Maureen Steinberg of Re/Max Center in Encino and Barbara Koutnik of Coldwell Banker in Montecito. Cogen is married to Ernie Cogen, a writer on Burnett’s TV variety show that aired from 1967 to 1979, and she is married to Jay Cogen, who just won an Emmy for comedy writing for “Frasier.” -She is also Kogen’s mother.
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Oscar-winning director George Sidney and his wife, former actress Colin Entratter Sidney, have sold their Beverly Hills home for $2.5 million.
Their home was the residence of actor Edward G. Robinson, who appeared in 101 films, including Little Caesar (1930).
Robinson purchased the Georgian house soon after it was built in 1935 and lived there until his death in 1973. Robinson’s widow married George Sidney in 1975. After her death, Sidney married Corinne Entratter, who was previously married to Jack Entratter. The late president and entertainment director of the Sands in Las Vegas.
Sidney, who just turned 85, served as president of the union for 16 years and received the union’s first president’s award in 1998. He directed such films as “Anchor’s Awe” (1945) and “Annie Get Your Gun” (1950). “Showboat” (1951), “Kiss Me Kate” (1953), “Bye Bye Birdie” (1963) and “Viva Las Vegas” (1964).
Corinne Entratter Sidney appeared in a Playboy centerfold in May 1958. The Sidney family moved to Las Vegas in 1998, where they live with their son Ben Heffron.
The Beverly Hills home was approximately 12,000 square feet and included a 3,000 square foot gallery, where Robinson kept much of his famous art collection. The home also has a wine cellar, greenhouse, guest house, motor court, and four master suites.
Joe Babajian of Fred Sands Estate in Beverly Hills had the listing.
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Dan McDermott, co-head of TV at DreamWorks SKG, has purchased an English-style country home in the Beverly Hills neighborhood for close to the asking price of $1.65 million. McDermott, 35, works closely with Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks.
The gated home Mr. McDermott purchased was built around 1930 and has four bedrooms, a study and a library on about 4,000 square feet. The house offers mountain and city views.
The sellers were Mark McClafferty, co-founder of Spellbound Pictures and former president of Eddie Murphy Television, and his wife, Pamela Edwards McClafferty. The couple produced the film The Climb (1999), starring John Hurt.
Ms. McDermott sold her former home in Westwood for a list price of about $1.2 million.
Ernest Carswell of Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills represented McDermott in the sale. Marilyn Watson of Celebrity Properties in Beverly Hills had a list of homes she had purchased.
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Michael Burlingham, grandson of Tiffany glass creator Louis Comfort Tiffany, and his wife Suzanne Boulle have listed their Sierra Madre home for $1.6 million.
Burlingham is a West Coast businessman. His mother, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham, was a pioneer in child psychotherapy along with her friend Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud.
Boulle is the owner and executive chef of Pasadena’s Raymond Restaurant.
The couple plans to spend more time at their 400-year-old holiday home in England’s North Sea.
“They have a great chef and manager[who oversees the restaurant when they’re abroad]and they also have a pied-a-terre where you can stay when you’re not in the UK,” Dominic de Fazio said. He shares the property with his wife, Hem-Young de Fazio, of Podley Caughey & Doan Realtors.
The Sierra Madre home sits on 1.25 acres adjacent to the Bailey Canyon Wildlife Refuge and features a living room and master bedroom with a fireplace. Guest apartment. There is a third bedroom with separate entrance, a four-way garage and a courtyard.
Built in 1990, the 4,000-square-foot Santa Fe-style home won an architectural award in 1992.
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Bill Robinson, a screenwriter and producer who has worked closely with actress and director Diane Keaton for the past seven years and heads their production company Blue Relief, has purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills for $935,000.
Robinson, 30, has worked on films such as “Unstrung Heroes” (1995), “The First Wives Club” (1996) and “Northern Lights” (1997).
He is an executive producer on the film Hanging Up, starring Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow and Walter Matthau. It is scheduled to be released in February.
His new home has three bedrooms and a maid’s quarters on less than 3,000 square feet. Glass walls and skylights offer views of the city and Lake Hollywood. Built in the ’60s, the home was recently redesigned by Michael Maltzan.
The seller was Peter Lehner, a producer and director who owns White Noise Productions in Hollywood.
Rick Chimienti of DBL Beverly Hills prepared the listing, and Robinson was represented by Eileen Comora of Nourmand & Associates in Beverly Hills.
