Goldwyn and Howard held several social gatherings at the house, with guests including Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Irving Berlin, Ginger Rogers, Jock Whitney, Lucille Ball, Eleanor Roosevelt, Norma Shearer, and Harpo Marx.

[2] The grounds of the house are set over terraces and include a swimming pool with accompanying cabana, a tool shed, and a tennis court.

[3] Goldwyn's biographer A. Scott Berg describes the property as a "gleaming white house with black trim, its two wings forming a welcoming obtuse angle".

[5] Among the reasons that prompted the Goldwyns to move was the desirability and social cachet of the Beverly Hills address and the lack of a projector room in their West Hollywood house.

[6] The house was built over two years by Richard Day and Alexander Gollitzen with the interiors constructed by labourers from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio.

Goldwyn claimed that the steep walk up and down the hill every day kept him fit, exclaiming to associates that "You can just feel that oxygen going into your system!".

[8] Howard would become noted for her social gatherings at the house, frequently hosting large parties honoring other notable spouses such as Irving Berlin and Ellin Mackay, or Averell and Marie Norton Harriman.

[9] Attendance at Howard's dinner parties for twelve guests were described by George Cukor as the "hardest ticket in town", with Katharine Hepburn remarking that "You always knew where your career stood by your position at the Goldwyn table".

[10] Berg notes the Goldwyns ability to draw entertainment personalities to the house with their hosting of a dinner on New Year's Eve of 1935 for Cole Porter, Lady Mendl and Gary Cooper and his wife, followed by a "champagne supper served at midnight" that was attended by Harold Arlen, Jack Benny, Charles Boyer, Frank Capra, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Howard Hawkes, James Hilton, Sidney Howard, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, Jock Whitney, Loretta Young, and an additional fifty guests.

[12] Eleanor Roosevelt attended a small dinner party at the house prior to the premier of Wuthering Heights with Norma Shearer and Merle Oberon.