Ahhhhh Pebble Beach, one of the most beautiful places in the country. Love that area, almost moved to Carmel once upon a time but the weather is usually dreary and foggy.
My Favorite Brunette, 1947
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Peter Lorre; directed by Elliott Nugent; Paramount; comedy about a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters; scenes filmed at the Crocker Mansion in Pebble Beach; at the time the Crocker Mansion was owned by Paul Fagan and was for sale; Paramount had a replica of the front door of the mansion made and used it on a Hollywood sound stage, where a lot of the scenes were shot; location shooting began after Labor Day in 1946 at the mansion, which was built in 1927 at a cost of more than $1 million (building materials were imported stone by stone and pillar by pillar from Europe).
I remember watching this movie in a hotel room in Monterey and saying, “Hey, we just saw that mansion on our drive today!”