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| | Paramount Ranch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | In 1927, Paramount Pictures purchased 2,400 acres of the old Rancho Las Virgenes for use as a “movie ranch.” For 25 years, a veritable who’s who of Hollywood practiced their craft at Paramount Ranch including direc-tor Cecil B. Demille and actors Bob Hope, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. |
 | | Paramount Ranch found renewed life as a film location when William Hertz bought the southeast portion in 1953. |
 | | The Paramount Racetrack opened a year later, and some considered it one of the most challenging in the U.S. Although it closed a year later, after several fatal accidents, the racetrack was featured in The Devil’s Hairpin, filmed in 1957. |
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