![]() Rosie O’Donnell, who was then the host of a popular television talk show, bought the house in 1996, three years after Hayes’ death. Russell Crowe rented the house for six months while filming “American Gangster” in 2006. ![]() Bill and Hillary Clinton have kicked the tires. Whenever Pretty Penny comes up for sale, it draws lots of interest. Edward Hopper famously painted the house in 1939. John Barrymore was said to have once stopped by for a pack of cigarettes and left three days later. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald left a signed copy of one of his books. Hayes and MacArthur entertained the likes of Ronald Reagan, Marilyn Monroe, Rosalind Russell, Ed Sullivan, Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh. ![]() Right from the start, the 1858 Italianate Victorian was a magnet for celebrities. Ever since the legendary actress Helen Hayes and her husband, the playwright Charles MacArthur, bought an old wedding cake of a house in Nyack in 1932 and christened it Pretty Penny, the historic home has become one of the best-known properties in Rockland and the rest of the Lower Hudson Valley. ![]()
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