There is a "forgotten" 1948 Film Noir called "Bungalow 13" which deserves mention here at NLA because of its storyline: "Private investigator Christopher Adams chases a precious antique jade lion through the Mexican cafes, auto courts, and the seamy side of Los Angeles."
"Bungalow 13" (1948)
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I've not seen the film, there is not a single customer review of it at The Internet Movie Data Base, nor do there seem to be DVD copies available online.
The movie was one of three pictures directed by Edward L. Cahn that starred Tom Conway, distinguished RKO leading man of 1940's B pictures, particularly "The Falcon" series, and some of Val Lewton's horror classics. (By the early 1960's, Conway was a dissipated-looking alcoholic, estranged from his brother, actor George Sanders - who later committed suicide - and when Conway died in 1967 at age 62, he had been living in a two-dollar a day flophouse at Venice Beach, when the area was truly a "slum by the sea")
Tom Conway in RKO's "Cat People" (1942)
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The second-lead of "Bungalow 13" was Richard Cromwell, whose career high-point had been in 1934 when he starred alongside Gary Cooper in "Lives of a Bengal Lancer." It has been rumored that Cromwell, who was gay, and Cooper had a short affair. (The two "bachelors" can be seen sharing a table in the technicolor short "Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove" on youtube at 3:22. Memorable line from the short film: "Hollywood...that great throbbing maelstrom").
Cromwell later had a brief, unhappy marriage in 1945-46 with the much-younger Angela Lansbury, although the two remained friends. "Bungalow 13" was Cromwell's last film and in the 1950's he became a noted decorative ceramacist. He too was an alcoholic, but got sober and was active in AA. He had a home on swanky North Miller Drive above the Sunset Strip, and died in 1963 at age 50.
Richard Cromwell, (born LeRoy Radabaugh) early 1930's
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"Bungalow 13's" camp factor was enhanced by Margaret Hamilton, the wicked witch in "The Wizard of Oz," playing nosy neighbor "Theresa Appleby." Conway's love-interest was a minor actress named Marjorie Hoshelle, wife of hunky 50's dreamboat Jeff Chandler until they divorced in 1954. (Chandler died from botched surgery in 1961 and unusual details about his private life were revealed by his lover Esther Williams in her controversial autobiography).
Marjorie Hoshelle with husband Jeff Chandler & 3D glasses, 1950's
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"Bungalow 13" was filmed at the new Nassour Studio, built in 1946 by handsome Lebanese-American Edward Nassour at 5746 Sunset Blvd. near Van Ness. The studio became a center for independent film and TV production throughout the 1950's. One of its popular TV series was "Sheenah, Queen of the Jungle," starring blonde glamour girl Irish McCalla. Nassour married a radio and B-movie actress named Sharon Douglas, know to poverty-row afficianados for her part in PRC's 1945 "Fog Island" - about a group of people stranded in a sinister mansion - which sounds fun but is an example of how even superior actors like Lionel Atwill and George Zucco can't overcome wooden dialogue and dreadful direction.
Nassour Studio, Sunset Blvd. Hollywood circa 1946/47
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Edward Nassour with Irish McCalla
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Sharon Douglas (born Rhoda-Nelle Rader) in PRC's "Fog Island" (1945)
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Nassour committed suicide in 1962 at his family's Sherman Oaks home by stabbing himself in the chest with a knife. His impressive studio was remodeled and became Metromedia Square, home of KTLA television and later headquarters of the Norman Lear TV empire. The building was eventually demolished and the site is now occupied by the Helen Bernstein High School.