Lush landscaping and mature trees surround this Studio City home, reached by a private pedestrian bridge through the front yard.
The asking price is just under $2.7 million.
Completed in 1949 and updated, the 2,950-square-foot residence features a four-bedroom, three-bathroom main house and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guest house.
Records show it was formerly the longtime home of playwright and screenwriter Oliver Hailey and his wife, “A Woman of Independent Means” author Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.
The Hailey family sold it to a limited liability real estate company for $1.75 million in February 2025.
Bellab Real Estate LLC has since remodeled the house, contemporizing the interior with lime-washed walls and engineered hardwood floors.
Plate glass windows flood the living room with natural light.
The gourmet kitchen boasts custom cabinetry and marble counters, with a breakfast nook tucked in the corner.
No bedroom shares a wall, ensuring privacy.
The second-level primary suite opens to a patio that overlooks the gardens. A soaking tub and a separate oversized walk-in shower enhance the connected bathroom.
In the guest house, a living room anchored by a fireplace adds to the floor plan.
A finished garage offers flexible space for a gym, home office or creative studio. The house backs up to a pool and patio.
Rick Tyberg, Lauren Duffy and Abigail Gutwein of Douglas Elliman hold the listing.
Forsythe Hailey, 87, and her late husband adapted her best seller, published in 1978, for the stage in a 1983 one-woman play starring Barbara Rush. The play won a Los Angeles Critics Award.
In 1995, it became an NBC miniseries starring Sally Field.
The couple also wrote for film and television.
Hailey, who died in January 1993 at 60, wrote more than 20 plays. His television work included “Bracken’s World,” “The Cosby Show” and the 1981 made-for-TV film “Sidney Shorr: A Girl’s Best Friend,” which earned him a Writers’ Guild of America Award for Best Original Comedy Anthology” and an Primetime Emmy nomination.
