oooOOOoooh! Good ol' Goodwin was deliciously noirish!
Sorry, but I just had to submit the text of Nat Goodwin's obituary. Sorry if it is overly long, but every blessed detail is just too outlandish to omit. Enjoy!
From the Sausalito News, February 8,1919:
"NAT GOODWIN, NOTED ACTOR, DIES
Matrimony and Divorces Checkered Life; Five Brides He Led to Altar and Planned Sixth Wedding
New York.— Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, died at a hotel here early January 31, after a brief Illness. He came to New York January 27 from Baltimore, where he had been playing. Death, was due to a general breakdown, following an operation for the removal of his right eye several months ago. He was born in Boston, July 25, 1857. The removal of Goodwin's eye was the result of an error an employee made several weeks ago, in preparing an eye wash for the actor. Chloroform instead of the usual liquid was placed in the cup, and Goodwin's eye was seriously injured. Goodwin's parents live in Koxbury, Mass., where the burial took place. At the funeral, held last Saturday, Wolf Hopper, a life-long friend of Goodwin, read the service, in the presence of a delegation from the Lambs Club. The dead actor's parents from Massachusetts attended the funeral, which was followed by other services in Knoxbury.
Back in his school days in an academy at Farmington, Me., he won school fame as a mimic. He made his professional debut as a newsboy in "Law in New York," at Boston in 1874. The following year found him at the famous Tony Pastor's in New York. His theatrical activities were marked with almost uninterrupted successes, both as star and as producer, in America, England and Australia.
Goodwin was five times married. His last wife was Margaret Moreland. Goodwin's country home was at Ocean Park, Santa Monica, Cal.,
Soon after Goodwin and Margaret Moreland married they started a cafe at Santa Monica. All this time Goodwin was writing a 500,000-word book, "I Wonder," in which he asks and answers the questions of why so many women—five of them —have consented to share his name. This book was completed recently.
In 1876, when he was but 19 years old, Goodwin married Eliza Weathersby, a young English actress, who was ten years his senior. This marriage, says Goodwin, is the only one he ever has regarded as a conquest. And this was, perhaps, his happiest venture. Mrs. Weathersby Goodwin died after ten years. Nat referred to her as the "angel". "She was like a mother to me," he says in his book.
Goodwin met Mrs. Nella Pease, wife of a well-to-do physician of Buffalo, N. Y. Society was astounded when Dr. and Mrs. Pease were divorced, and in 1888 Mrs. Pease became Mrs. Goodwin No. 2. There was one bright spot in this marriage—the birth of a son. But the child died when only a few months old, and this Nat characterizes as one of the saddest moments of his life.
Maxine Elliott, a stage beauty, next attracted the much-married actor. He met her at a banquet in San Francisco, and at once become enamored of her, it is said. She was then the wife of George A. McDermott, a Los Angeles lawyer. Goodwin, about to sail for Australia to appear in "The Prisoner of Zenda," needed a leading woman of striking appearance. Maxine Elliott exactly fitted the bill. When the company returned from its tour she secured a divorce from McDermott and in 1898 became Mrs. Nat Goodwin No. 3. "My third wife was a Cleopatra, a Joan of Arc," declared Goodwin. "I married her for business reasons. Our team work on the stage was good, and box-office prospects with matrimony seemed better." There was trouble between the couple in England. Then Nat met Miss Edna Goodrich, one of the famous "Florodora" girls, whom he raised to the position of his leading lady. He divorced Maxine Elliott-Goodwin in Reno in 1908 on the ground of desertion, and November 8, 1908, was married in Boston to Miss Goodrich.
His fourth marriage cost Goodwin more than all the others put together, perhaps. In the first place, Goodwin, at the time of his fourth marriage, settled $200,000 on his bride. Then hard luck seemed to hit him from all sides. First he lost $250,000 in Nevada mining deals. In Paris, June, 1910, the couple agreed to disagree, and separated. Nat was sued for divorce in New York the following December, the name of a prominent actress being mentioned as co-respondent and also the name of a St. Louis society beauty. Goodwin, before his marriage, had made over to Miss Goodrich half the income from a $1,700,000 trust fund. When the last settlement had been made, Goodwin found that his wedded bliss in the fourth attempt had cost him $800,000, or just exactly $29,625.62 a month. In March. 1911, Mrs. Goodwin was granted an absolute decree of divorce. But even this didn't end his troubles, for Mrs. Goodrich-Goodwin sued him again, in 1911, for another $65,000 she claimed was due her, and tied up the actor's property holdings until he handed her the cash. Then Goodwin got up and exclaimed: "No more for me. I'm through with the wives."
In August, 1912, Goodwin was seriously injured while on a launch ride with Miss Moreland off Rocky Point, Calif., and was nursed back to health by his companion. This episode ended in the usual way, and Goodwin took Miss Moreland as bride No. 5. She divorced him last year, and last month became the bride of a Lieutenant in the American Army, her third matrimonial venture. Goodwin was soon to have taken a sixth wife, Georgia Gardner of Los Angeles, Cal., who is playing in the company in which Goodwin was starring at the time of his death. She came to New York a few days ago to arrange for his care here."
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You are absolutely right, the address of Aimee Semple McPherson's home is 333 S. Manhattan Place. 
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It dosen't match up with any current address on Ocean Avenue, either. So I guess we found the ADDRESS, but can anyone find the LOCATION?
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