George Reeves' Death Site

Actor George Reeves, who is best known for his portrayal of Superman in the 1950s television show "Adventures of Superman," died on June 16th 1959 in his home in the Benedict Canyon neighborhood of Beverly Hills, just days before he was to marry socialite Leonore Lemmon. The night he died, he reportedly drank heavily and fought openly with Lemmon as witnessed by friends William Bliss, writer Robert Condon and Carol Van Ronkel. He went upstairs in a foul mood and shortly after, Lemmon and the guests say they heard a single gunshot from his bedroom. Though ruled a suicide, many people refuse to believe he killed himself, due to strange findings on the crime scene.

The brown shingled bungalow, which was built in 1947, boasts 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, and 1.717 square feet was purchased for the actor at a cost of $12,000 by his longtime lover, MGM Vice-President E.J. Mannix’s wife Toni Lanier, whom the actor had broken up with shorty before his death.

Back in 1995, the home was for sale with an asking price of $695,000, but eventually sold for $495,000.