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Alternate address: 2528 Glendower Avenue

Home to actor Alan Dinehart in 1934. (Source: www.movielanddirectory.com)

1930 census:
2558 Glendower Avenue (Value: $25,000); 1) Bernice R. Palmer, owner and head of household; 36 year old divorced white female; married at age 19; born in South Dakota; parents born in Iowa; a writer in advertising. 2) Dulaney Palmer, son; 15 year old single white male; in school; born in California. 3) Virginia B. Palmer, daughter; 9 year old white female; in school; born in California. 4) Ethel B. Williams, mother; 55 year old white female widow; married at age 18; born in Iowa; father born in New Hampshire, mother in Connecticut; not working. 5) Bernard R. Von Dieck, roomer; 33 year old divorced male; married at age 27; born in Nebraska; father born in Austria, mother in the US; a representative of art goods.

Alternate address: 2558 Glendower Avenue

Felix Jackson(June 5, 1902 – December 7, 1992) who lived here in 1940 was a German-born screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Hamburg as Felix Joachimson. Jackson was a city editor in Germany at 21, then a dramatic and music critic, and helped manage three theaters in Berlin. He joined Joe Pasternak as a producer in Budapest in 1933. He began working in the German film industry, before relocating after the rise of the Nazi party. He moved to Austria and Hungary in the mid-1930s where he frequently collaborated with the director Henry Koster. His screenplay for the 1935 film Little Mother served as the basis for a Hollywood remake Bachelor Mother (1939) which was nominated for an Academy Award. Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. He was active in the European Film Fund, which provided support to European émigré filmmakers. He produced several Deanna Durbin films for Universal Pictures and they married in 1945. He joined the advertising agency Young and Rubicam in 1946, heading up its dramatic-television department. He served as executive producer of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse which aired on the ABC television network. (Source: Wikipedia 2016)

1940 Census:
2528 Glendower Avenue (value $17,500) (might be Glendower Place?): 1) Felix R. Jackson, head of household; white married male 27 years of age; born in Germany; a writer in motion pictures, earns more than $5,000. 2) Jill Jackson, wife; white married female 26 years of age; born in Missouri; not working. 3) Janet Jackson, daughter; white female 1 year of age; born in California.