Hollywood Arensberg, Judy Jaffe Tolmach Silber, Sam Jaffe, Mildred Jaffe, Westlake High School, Vincent Price, Franz Waxman, David O. Selznick, Herman J. Mankiewicz, John McAndrew, Horrace Pippin, Edward G. Robinson, Fanny Brice, Alvin Lustig, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Aldous Huxley, Henry Dreyfus, Ruth Maitland, Modern Institute of Arts, Frank Perls, Earl Stendahl, Kenneth Macgowan, Gregor Piatigorsky, Galka Scheyer, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, William Lee Woolet, Henry Palmer Sabin, Richard Neutra, Henry Eggers, Silber's Bakery Mark Nelson Hollywood Arensberg, Judy Jaffe Tolmach Silber, Sam Jaffe, Mildred Jaffe, Westlake High School, Vincent Price, Franz Waxman, David O. Selznick, Herman J. Mankiewicz, John McAndrew, Horrace Pippin, Edward G. Robinson, Fanny Brice, Alvin Lustig, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Aldous Huxley, Henry Dreyfus, Ruth Maitland, Modern Institute of Arts, Frank Perls, Earl Stendahl, Kenneth Macgowan, Gregor Piatigorsky, Galka Scheyer, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, William Lee Woolet, Henry Palmer Sabin, Richard Neutra, Henry Eggers, Silber's Bakery Mark Nelson

An “esoteric playground”? Hear Judy Jaffe Silber talk about her childhood at the Arensberg House.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of writing Hollywood Arensberg was living with the nagging idea that there were people alive but unknown to us who had met Louise and Walter Arensberg and/or who had seen their collection in situ—flyers, you might say, beneath our radar. Indeed, though we looked for many years, we were only able to find and speak with two people who had been inside the Arensberg home at the time when it was filled with art.

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