Four-time Oscar winner owned this house

by BlockShopper Historian published Dec. 28, 2009

Independent documentary film maker Charles Guggenheim owned this house from 1960 to 1967. He was named KETC's (channel 9) first general manager in 1953. Guggenheim received the first of 12 Academy Award nominations in 1956 for A City Decides, a film about the integration of St. Louis public schools. He also made two feature films, including 1959's The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, starring a then unknown Steve McQueen. Guggenheim won four Academy Awards and passed away in 2002.

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