![]() ![]() Elisabeth Hauptmann, the co-author of “The Threepenny Opera,” lived in Mandeville Canyon, at the actor Peter Lorre’s ranch. Alma Mahler-Werfel, the widow of Gustav Mahler, lived with her third husband, the best-selling Austrian writer Franz Werfel, on North Bedford Drive, next door to the conductor Bruno Walter. Vicki Baum, whose novel “Grand Hotel” brought her a screenwriting career, had a house on Amalfi Drive, near the leftist composer Hanns Eisler. His colleague Lion Feuchtwanger occupied the Villa Aurora, a Spanish-style mansion overlooking the Pacific among its amusements was a Hitler dartboard. Alfred Döblin, the author of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” had a place on Citrus Avenue, in Hollywood. The screenwriter Salka Viertel held gatherings on Mabery Road, near the Santa Monica beach. The novelist Heinrich Mann resided a few blocks away, on Montana Avenue. ![]() Bertolt Brecht lived in a two-story clapboard house on Twenty-sixth Street, in Santa Monica. You can visit all the addresses in the course of a long day. ![]()
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