The brown-shingled house overlooking Little Neck Bay at Corbett Road and 222nd Street was the summer estate of silent-era actress Norma Talmadge in the 1910s. Her husband, Joseph Schenck, headed United Artists and 20th Century Fox and co-founded the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (the organization that awards the Oscars). She appeared in over […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/04/talmadge-house-bayside/
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