![]() Incredibly, the first painting Hopper purchased (with Hayward’s money) was Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans in 1962. Hopper had a natural eye for art and was one of the first actors to put his wallet behind the growing Abstract and Pop Art movements. ![]() They then moved to 1712 North Crescent Height Boulevard, a Spanish style home built in 1927 that would become the beating heart of the growing counterculture. The couple initially moved into a house destroyed in the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in 1961. (His photographs of ’60s figures like Paul Newman and Timothy Leary have been featured in major galleries around the world.) Overnight, it seemed, the two had become “the coolest kids in Hollywood.” Hayward bought Hopper a Nikon camera for his birthday, starting a lifelong pursuit of photography. MoMAĭespite it all, the two started a passionate romance, bonding over a shared love of the visual. Andy Warhol’s “Soup Cans,” a purchase by Hopper that Hayward didn’t like: “It’s going in the kitchen!” she declared. Hopper was the furthest thing from a scion - born in Dodge City, Kansas, he was nearly banished from Hollywood for clashing with the director of the movie “From Hell to Texas” before his 25th birthday. She initially loathed the unwashed and unprepared Hopper. She was nursing the wounds of a recent divorce and the dual deaths of her mother and sister, both by suicide. Hayward was Hollywood royalty - the daughter of super-agent Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullivan. The two were the unlikeliest couple when they met on the production of the ill-fated Broadway show “Mandingo” in 1961. Strangelove,” would sum up the dynamic between Hopper and Hayward with one perfect sentence in 1965: “She is a Great Beauty and he is some kind of Mad Person.” The house at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard, which Jane Fonda referred to as “magical,” was also the place where Dennis Hopper unraveled. A place where the three children would sometimes have to cower in closets to hide from their increasingly unhinged father, who drank and drugged to extreme excess, who liked to play with firearms and sometimes took his rage out on their mother.Īs Hayward once wrote, “Those years in the ’60s when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” CBS Photoġ712 was also where Hopper unraveled. Jane Fonda called it “a magical house.” Brooke Hayward, actress-daughter of producer Leland Hayward, and her husband, Dennis Hopper. The house “embodied the collision of Old Hollywood and New, of chic bohemia and burgeoning counterculture,” Rozzo writes, where you could as easily run into the Black Panthers as Jack Nicholson. The house, known as just “1712,” was owned by actress Brooke Hayward and her enfant terrible husband Hopper during eight tumultuous years of marriage, and filled to the brim with her found objects and his collection of contemporary art that, as Joan Didion remarked, “seems the result of some marvelous scavenger hunt.” It was just another day in the life at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the sixties, a time and place that is the subject of the new book “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy” (Ecco) by Mark Rozzo. Pop Art masterpieces were askew on the wall, a creepy 18-foot clown puppet hung from the ceiling, 20 Hells Angels huddled together in sleeping bags on the floor as Dennis Hopper sashayed down the stairs in a flowing caftan robe. Hayley Hasselhoff joins Hollywood ‘nepo baby’ discussion: ‘I auditioned like everyone else’ Protester climbs 162-foot news tower, holding ‘Free Billie Eilish’ sign and playing guitar Joshua Jackson’s wife loves watching his sex scenes: ‘She’s like a voyeur’ Hank Azaria opens up about voicing ‘dehumanizing’ Apu on ‘The Simpsons’
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