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"Hollywood at Home: Leading Couples\nArchitectural Digest revisits the private homes (and lives) of the off-screen (and sometimes on-screen) pairings that have graced our pages over the years\nIn Ocala, Florida, John Travolta and Kelly Preston built a spectacular 8,900-square-foot concrete-and-glass home that is a futuristic cross between the hippest \u201850s pad and the hippest airport on the planet. \"It was always John's dream to have planes in his front yard\u2014to practically be able to pull up to the house\u2014so that when you wanted to go to dinner, all you'd have to do was step out the door, get on the plane and whisk off,\" Preston says of her aviation-mad husband. His dream came true; the couple have two planes, a 135-foot 707 jet from Qantas and a Gulfstream II, parked in plane pavilions a mere 100 feet from the house. (April 2004)\nPlaywright Arthur Miller and actress Marilyn Monroe married in June 1956, at the height of her stardom. Soon after, she told him, \"I hate Hollywood. I don't want it any more. I want to live quietly in the country and just be there when you need me. I can't fight for myself any more.\" Miller took her back to his country retreat in Roxbury, Connecticut, where he hoped they could lead a normal life. It soon became clear, though, that they would have trouble combining their habits, tastes and interests. The contrast between Monroe's lofty dreams and reckless indifference to money and Miller's down-to-earth realism and notorious frugality became obvious that autumn, when she asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new house. In the end they rejected his concept as far too impractical and outrageously expensive and decided to preserve the old house. After four years of marriage, they divorced and she returned to Los Angeles. (November 2008)\n\"The first time Taylor [Hackford] brought me to New Orleans,\" says Helen Mirren, \"all I could say was, \u2018I'm going to die here.' Like Venice. And that same decadent, romantic, slow sweetness comes over me every time I return.\" Their house in the French Quarter is in the style known locally as shotgun, meaning it's so long and thin you could stand at the front and fire a shotgun straight through to the back. Both of them are successful, and they have a good partnership. \"If one of us is working,\" Hackford says, \"the other is there for backup. If we're both working, we telephone every night. If we're both between films, we go to New Orleans.\" For Hackford, \"Los Angeles is home and always has been,\" he notes. \"New Orleans is an escape\u2014I feel I've gone somewhere outside the U.S.\" For Mirren, \"Los Angeles is like living in the country. We're surrounded by greenery; we drive everywhere. In New Orleans I ride a bike. This is our town house, and I like being in town. It isn't New York that's the opposite of Los Angeles, it's New Orleans. Angelenos only want to get on with whatever is new and hot. New Orleans is still living a tradition.\" (April 2007)\nOrson Welles and Rita Hayworth divorced four years after their hurried yet ecstatic marriage in Santa Monica, California. She was uneducated and intensely insecure but a big star, breaking free from her ex-husband yet fiercely guarded by her studio, Columbia, and its boss, Harry Cohn. Welles was mercurial, unreliable, too much in love with himself to leave room for anyone else\u2014and a natural loner and nomad. Despite their differences, they fell in love as helplessly as kids. And, for a year or so, they gave emphatic, physical proof of America's (and their own) na\u00EFve dream, that a full-fledged genius and the loveliest girl in the world might be like filet mignon and ice cream\u2014on the same plate. Yet this didn't last. He grew bored with her, and she got fed up with his egotism. (April 1998)\n\"I'm one of those impulsive people\u2014I believe that I can make almost any place lovely; I can make it a home,\" actress Jamie Lee Curtis says. Her spouse, actor and director Christopher Guest, sees things differently. With impeccable comic timing, Curtis imitates her husband's house-hunting approach. \"He'll walk in like this,\" she says, marching forward, then stopping dead in her tracks. Stone-faced and radiating disapproval, she peers around the room. However, Guest acted against type when the couple found their home in a canyon in west Los Angeles. \"We should take it,\" he said upon first seeing it. After multiple renovations, their house is airy and light. There's evidence of family life and a pared-down, deeply personal, decorating style. Life here is truly causal. \"This is not a pompous house,\" as Guest puts it. (December 2002)\nAfter eloping to Las Vegas, the Presleys retreated to a rented house in Palm Springs, California, that became known as the Honeymoon Hideaway. Both before and after the wedding, Priscilla Presley says, that house served as a luxuriously secluded decompression chamber for Elvis, whose life in Los Angeles seemed like a never-ending series of film shoots, recording sessions and meetings. \"Once we started driving into Palm Springs, there was a calmness that took over,\" recalls Priscilla. \"I always loved that feeling; we really needed that at the time. We went almost every weekend, or whenever Elvis had lots of stress.\" Although California was where Elvis worked, Graceland\u2014the Memphis mansion that most people will always think of as Elvis's home\u2014was where his heart lay. \"Memphis was playtime,\" Priscilla says. In 1979, seven years after their marriage dissolved and two years after Elvis's death, Priscilla, as his estate's coexecutor, assumed control of Graceland. The house was costing the estate so much money that unless something dramatic was done, it would have to be sold. She couldn't bear to let it go, so she opened it to the public\u2014an idea that not only saved the house but made it into a highly profitable venture. (November 2008)\nWilliam H. Macy and his wife, actress Felicity Huffman, live in a 1920s Mediterranean-style house near Hancock Park in Los Angeles. \"It was described as a fixer-upper, but it was pretty beat,\" Macy says of his house. \"It was beyond ugly,\" Huffman adds. \"What's now my office was one of those dark, scary places where they store wheelbarrows.\" Initially the actor vowed to do all the work on the house himself, but four weeks of tiling his own kitchen counters\u2014a job he thought would take four days\u2014convinced him otherwise. \"I learned a lesson: Never do tiles by yourself,\" he says wryly. \"I also learned there were people out there better than me. So instead of lifting hammers, I lifted the phone.\" Like its residents, the house feels down-to-earth and at ease, notably devoid of Hollywood froufrou. (April 2000)\nAlthough both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were wildly successful in their careers, neither felt the need for extravagance. Instead of acquiring an impressive estate, the couple moved to a 20-acre ranch in the sparsely settled San Fernando Valley town of Encino several months after their marriage in 1939. The property cost $50,000 at the time. At the ranch, Gable and Lombard enjoyed unspoiled country living, far from the tour buses that prowled the streets of Beverly Hills yet still an easy drive to the studios. (April 1990)\nIn New York, Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, share an airy apartment on Central Park. In the years since Fox and Pollan were boyfriend and girlfriend on Family Ties and appeared together in the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City, they have lived in a series of dream homes that fell short as realities\u2014a movie-star house in Bel Air, an apartment on the Upper West Side and a spread called Lottery Hill Farm in Vermont. \"The upside and the downside to being young is that you can play out some of your fantasies,\" Fox explains. \"But when you have kids, you look at things in a different way. Now we're being practical. We bought a Suburban to drive around in, and we did this apartment. This place is about me and Tracy and the three units.\" Regarding the couple's life together, Pollan adds, \"We sat down together and asked, \u2018What is our fantasy?' This is it.\" (October 1997)\nGregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn's costar in Roman Holiday, introduced her to his friend Mel Ferrer at a party. They married in Switzerland in 1954, then moved to what became their real home, which was also in Switzerland. But because their careers required them to be elsewhere, they had various \"homes away from home.\" One was a rented beach house on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. \"After a day's work, Audrey and I couldn't wait to get back, shed our studio duds and go out on the beach,\" Ferrer recalls. After two years the couple moved to a house atop Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills. Ippy, the miniature deer that appeared with Hepburn in 1959's Green Mansions\u2014directed by Ferrer\u2014lived with the couple for a period of time. Ippy was a nice distraction for her while she was recuperating after breaking her back in an accident on the set of John Huston's The Unforgiven. (March 2006)\n\"There's real solace in returning to this tiny island where I have so many relatives, probably 70, in one place. To me, Bermuda is a real family spot,\" says Michael Douglas. \"I said to Catherine, \u2018We'll be on an island with lots of family and no place to go. Think about that.' She did and immediately signed on.\" Thus, Douglas and his wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, commissioned decorator Stephen Ryan to design their Bermuda refuge. When it came to furnishings, the couple knew what they wanted: ease with dignity. Throughout the process, explains Douglas, \"I wouldn't let Catherine see anything, not even a digital photo. We had gone through all this stuff with Stephen, talked about the pieces, the colors\u2014so why look at the production until it's together? The only way to do it was to let the designer get it all done and then to see it when we returned.\" Fortunately, they were pleased with the finished product. (July 2002)\n\"Baby, I never believed that I could love anyone again,\" Humphrey Bogart wrote Lauren Bacall. \"It was romantic\u2014it was fun\u2014it was exciting\u2014it was all-encompassing,\" Bacall remembered in her autobiography, By Myself. They met while filming To Have and Have Not together. In 1945 the two wed\u2014this marked a fourth marriage for Bogart. He was 46, she 21. The couple seem to have had one of the happiest unions in a town where disheveled marriages, as Bogart's own history demonstrates, are not uncommon. \"The remarkable Lauren Bacall knew who he was, let him be who he was,\" observed Mary Astor, Bogart's costar in The Maltese Falcon. \"And, in return, he was at last able to give something no other woman could grab from him: his total commitment.\" (April 1990)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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