Longtime Home of Pioneering Writer-Producer Stanley Rubin Available for First Time Ever

Now making its first ever appearance on the market is the longtime residence of writer-producer Stanley Rubin and his wife, actress Kathleen Hughes.

Born in the Bronx in 1917, Rubin took a Greyhound bus to L.A. as a teenager in the 1930s. He began his career in Hollywood in the mailroom of Paramount Pictures, and worked his way up writing for radio, films, and television, winning an Emmy in 1949, the first year they were given out, for his script of the pilot episode of the NBC anthology series “Your Show Time.” He went on to write 19 movies and produce more than two dozen feature and TV films, including the classic film noir “The Narrow Margin” and the 1954 western “River of No Return,” directed by Otto Preminger and starring Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. Rubin also served as president of the Producers Guild for five years.

A Hollywood native, Hughes started out as a contract player for 20th Century Fox, then made a handful of films with Universal, most notably the 1953 3-D cult classic “It Came From Outer Space.” In the mid-fifties, she transitioned from films to television, finding steady work in such programs as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” “Perry Mason,” and “I Dream of Jeannie.” One of those TV shows led to her meeting Rubin, whom she wed in 1954 — a union that lasted 59 years, until Rubin’s death in 2014.

Early in their marriage, Rubin and Hughes commissioned local architect Richard Frazier to design a home in the hills above the Sunset Strip for their family, which would eventually grow to include four children. Completed in 1956 and featured in the Los Angeles Times the following year, the single-story residence follows an “H”-shaped plan and spreads four bedrooms and as many bathrooms between 3,446 square feet of floor space.

Listing photos are scanty, but the few available reveal telltale hallmarks of classic SoCal modernism: ample walls of glass, open-concept living areas, and prominent use of organic materials such as the Bouquet canyon stone covering an exterior wall and surrounding the living room fireplace. Other features include an amoeba-shaped swimming pool and adjacent spa.

The home’s strongest selling point, however, is likely to be its choice lot — a flat half-acre at the end of a cul-de-sac, serving up cinematic city views with no neighbors nearby.

Asking just under $6.5 million, the property is listed with Alex Howe and Weston Littlefield of AKGRE.