{"id":599610,"date":"2023-12-01T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/celebrity-loved-rancho-mirage-celebrates-50-years\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:01:22","slug":"celebrity-loved-rancho-mirage-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/celebrity-loved-rancho-mirage-celebrates-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Celebrity-Loved Rancho Mirage Celebrates 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Palm Springs is where one goes to be seen; neighboring Rancho Mirage, well, not so much. That\u2019s why many A-List Hollywood stars pulled up sticks in the mid-20th century, moving from Palm Springs \u2014 and L.A. \u2014 to the more discreet Rancho Mirage, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a city this year.<\/p>\n

\n Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, at least one Marx brother, Bing Crosby, and even the guy who played the wizard in The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, MGM contracted character actor Frank Morgan, lived there. All were seeking the country club lifestyle away from the party scene and camera flashbulbs.<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Welk, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Barbara Sinatra at the 1972 Dinah Shore Colgate Winner\u2019s Circle in 1972 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Rancho Mirage also has long been known as the \u201cPlayground of the Presidents,\u201d especially golfing ones \u2014 everyone from Eisenhower to Obama has played its course, and Gerald and Betty Ford lived there for years. Betty Ford co-founded the Betty Ford Center in the city in 1982, and it\u2019s also home to Sunnylands, the former Annenberg Estate, which is currently showcasing the furniture design of interior designer William Haines<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSinatra moved from Palm Springs to Tamarisk; Bing Crosby moved to Thunderbird Heights, Lucille Ball moved from Palm Springs to Thunderbird,\u201d says\u00a0real estate agent Keith Markovitz\u00a0of\u00a0TTK Represents\u00a0of\u00a0Compass, noting Rancho Mirage\u2019s two famous country clubs.\u00a0\u201cThey moved to have that country club lifestyle,\u201d he says. Singer, actress and talk show host Dinah Shore also famously founded The Dinah Shore golf tournament at Rancho Mirage\u2019s Mission Hills Country Club in 1972.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cSinatra did have a house commissioned in Rancho Mirage,\u201d agrees Melissa Riche, founder of Preservation Mirage and author of the architectural tome Mod Mirage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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First Lady Betty Ford in front of the Betty Ford Clinic at Rancho Mirage California, 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n \u201cHe was splitting up with Ava Gardner at the time and decided to build a house at Tamarisk Country Club,\u201d she adds. Sinatra\u2019s pad sat famously along Tamarisk\u2019s 17th hole. \u201cFrom Here to Eternity<\/em> was just coming out and his career was reborn, and he was putting Ava in the rearview. He was also very anti-prejudice of any kind. Tamarisk, which was founded by Hollywood Jewish emigres, was not restricted,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n Rancho Mirage, which was incorporated in 1973, was initially bought and developed as date palm ranches and farmland 100 years ago, making it one year younger than the Hollywoodland residential tract. However, for far longer, the land has been home to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.<\/p>\n

\n Markowitz recently listed a spectacularly reimagined historic home in Rancho Mirage for $3.96 million<\/a> that\u2019s currently in contract.<\/p>\n

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A recently reimagined and renovated classic ranch home in Rancho Mirage, California, recently listed with Keith Markovitz of TTK Represents of Compass.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n The four bedroom and three bath home on Rancho Road predates those big Hollywood move-ins and was crafted from a mid-1940s, classic desert-ranch style home, originally clad in a crimson wood exterior. Architect\u00a0Sean Lockyer of Studio AR&D and\u00a0designer Anthony Cochran of Anthony Cochran Design reimagined this modest home, adding 1,700 square feet to create a total of 3,349 square feet of interior space, and a heightened profile from the original eight feet to 10 and even 12 feet in some parts.<\/p>\n

\n Yet, it was all done without losing the original\u2019s classic desert ranch low aspect.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou walk up to the home and you can see the 1940s volumes with lower ceilings and smaller living areas,\u201d says Markovitz. \u201cThen, as you go into the new area there are 10 foot ceilings and disapp<\/a>earing walls onto the outdoor pavilion. Both the kitchen and primary bedroom completely open up to the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The home\u2019s living room opens to the garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n The effect is a contrasting cozy vibe that switches to an airy bright open one, giving the best of both worlds: intimacy combined with fresh modern style. \u201cIt\u2019s like the best marriages,\u201d says Markovitz. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing juxtaposition that is a beautiful compliment to one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The organic meeting of old and new included keeping the original kidney shaped pool, just with an uptick of vertically placed tiles and sun benches; and the 1940s beamed car port, which is upgraded with a hidden electric vehicle charger. \u201cIt really helped keep that period look,\u201d says Markovitz.<\/p>\n

\n Whilst Markovitz can\u2019t say if any stars ever lived in the home, it\u2019s doubtful. But Hollywood marquee names were neighbors.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe land where the house stands at Barbara Drive and Rancho Road was originally owned and developed by Hollywood entertainment lawyer A. Ronald Burton. He worked with Hal Roach Studios and stars like Ronald Reagan. He also repped Hedy Lamarr and he sold her a house round the corner \u2014 I am sworn to secrecy of the location by the current owners,\u201d she adds. \u201cPeople here love the history, but they love the privacy too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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