Using the terrific multi-point routing feature at Yahoo! Maps, here is a small collection of tours put together from EJ's books. Clicking the link will present a map and directions! This is just a sample of the literally thousands of potential tours you can craft using The Movieland Directory.
DIY Tour From The Movieland Directory:
A Sampling of Marilyn Monroe Addresses: 1920's to 1960's This is just seven of the three dozen addresses in the Directory associated with Marilyn Monroe. This sample includes residences from her youth until her death. This particular sample would cover quite a bit of Los Angeles real estate, an excellent opportunity to reference the Directory for insight into the neighborhoods you are passing through and visiting. For instance, if you look up in the Directory this tour's third stop, 8491 Fountain Avenue in Hollywood, you will in seconds see both that the El Palacio Apartments at that address and addresses up-and-down the street housed a number of famous and not-so-famous people in the entertainment business. It's Hollywood history at your fingertips. Reading about it and viewing pictures is great. But, there's no substitute for being outdoors and seeing this all in person!
A Sampling of Brad Pitt Addresses Checking the Directory, you'll instantly see that across the street from Brad and ex-Jennifer's 1026 Ridgedale home, at 1025, lived Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan!
DIY Tour From Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites, a collection of 16 Driving Tours of Movieland, with turn-by-turn directions:
Hancock Park Sample Tour Alma Rubens death site, Howard Hughes home, Nat King Cole home and death site, and W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont's home and death site. Hancock Park is a lovely neighborhood to this day. Technically, you don't need this map for directions if you own the book, which includes turn-by-turn directions. And, with each tour stop in the book is a story including such things as the person's filmography. Don't let the "Scandal sites" title fool you. For instance, Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan, mentioned above, died of a cerebral hemmorhage at his 1025 Ridgedale home...a stop on the book's "Beverly Hills, Benedict Canyon" tour. Here's a sample from that entry: "On September 18, 1949, after a morning playing golf with best friend Clark Gable at the Bel Air Country Club, 59-year-old actor Frank Morgan returned to his home here and suffered a fatal cerebral hemmorhage as he stood at the front door. Born Francis Phillip Wupperman, Morgan starred in over 100 movies as a member of MGM's stock company during his 30 year career..."