Home of Golden Age, TV Actress Pat Crowley Listed for $16M

The Bel-Air home of Pat Crowley, whose career spanned Hollywood’s Golden Age and television’s glory days, is on the market for the first time in more than 50 years.

The nearly 6,000-square-foot residence at 551 Perugia Way was not only the scene of many a dinner party hosting a who’s who across entertainment, sports and media, but is sited on a unique parcel at the eighth hole of the Bel-Air Country Club golf course.

It has unobstructed views of the course and beyond to the ocean. There’s also the home’s orientation out of the path of any stray golf balls flying into the backyard.

It’s listed for just under $16 million, or $2,671 per square foot, and counts six beds and seven baths. Carolwood Estates co-founder and CEO Drew Fenton holds the listing.

“Every house up there has changed hands multiple times and she just loved this place and never wanted to unload it. It was her sanctuary,” said Crowley’s son, Jon Hookstratten.

Hookstratten, who is Sony Pictures Entertainment executive vice president of administration and operations, grew up in the house along with his sister, Ann Hookstratten.

Named “new star of the year” at the 1954 Golden Globes, Crowley made a name for herself during Hollywood’s golden age with films such as “Money from Home” and “Forever Female.” She later went on to television with roles such as Joan Nash in “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” in 1965. She passed away last year at the age of 91.

Crowley purchased the home in the early ’70s with then-husband Ed Hookstratten, a prominent sports and entertainment attorney.

Even before they moved their family into the home, it was already part of Hollywood lore for the time when film producer and aviator Howard Hughes landed his plane outside the back of the house to meet Katharine Hepburn, who happened to be playing golf.

Crowley and Hookstratten’s purchase of the property was followed by a series of what Jon described as the “glory years”— before his parents divorced—with frequent dinner parties where famous faces from across the entertainment, sports and media worlds collided.

Among the home’s many guests were Johnny Carson, Helen Hayes, Fred Astaire, Tom Brokaw, and Tom Snyder,

“It was a really unusual mix, a fun mix, of very nice people they had around,” Jon remembered.

He recalled one special guest who visited the home while he was living in the guest house as a college student. Jon was doing homework when his mother suggested he come and meet some of the guests. At first, he waived off the invite, but she nudged him. When he went into the main house, Muhammad Ali was there. He keeps the photo he took with the heavyweight champion at his desk.

“My mom loved to entertain. She’d do dinners of 10 people,” Jon said. “It was a Los Angeles-centric cross section of people here.”