The Hell of Living in a Home With Any Celebrity Connection

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airport and complaining about airplanes." One reason for the growing attention to these homes is that streaming services make older TV and movies instantly available. In 2012, real-estate agent Adele Curtis represented the buyers of the Winnetka, Ill., house where the 1990 movie “Home Alone" was filmed. “At that point, it was kind of ho-hum, it’s the ‘Home Alone’ house," she says.

While at the brick Georgian, she never noticed passersby taking pictures. Nowadays, fans can be spotted outside the house snapping photos “at any time of the day or night," she says. “It’s become more popular than it ever was." James C.

Barry, whose parents were longtime owners of the house that served as the home of Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia on “The Golden Girls," says the show had a surge in popularity before the family sold it in 2020. Once, a man knocked on the door and said his girlfriend was a huge fan of the show, and asked if he could propose to her in the home’s driveway. Barry’s mother agreed, and after he popped the question, “she came out with some champagne to toast them." The couple sent Christmas cards every year expressing their appreciation.

Mallory Crichton and her husband live next door to what is known in Los Angeles as the Black Dahlia murder house, where an unsolved 1947 murder is believed to have taken place. Both homes are gated and set back from the street, so the many true-crime fans who stop by each week often get confused and take pictures of Crichton’s “pretty normal" three-bedroom rental instead. She points them in the right direction if she happens to be home.

But she’s not always around so many likely return home with photos of her abode instead. “But good for them," she says. “Ignorance is bliss.