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Laguna Beach is Southern California's premier seaside
artist haven. Though world famous, Laguna Beach still
possesses a unique small-town charm rarely found anywhere
else. Quaint cottages framed by subtropical gardens line
bluffs above sandy coves along a seven mile
picture-postcard coastline. Inland, luxuriant foliage and
seaview homes cover canyons and ridges that tower more
than 1,000 feet above the ocean. Artists began arriving here
over a century ago (Norman St. Claire in 1903) soon followed
by the Hollywood elite (Bette Davis, Mary Pickford, Mary Miles
Minter, Victor Mature, Judy Garland, Rudolph Valentino,
Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Rooney all maintained homes in
Laguna Beach). In 1920 they founded the Laguna Playhouse
- the oldest continuously operating theatre company on the
west coast. Today, visitors from around the world come to
Laguna Beach to enjoy the Pageant of the Masters/Festival
of Arts, the Sawdust Festival, Art-A-Fair and the Laguna
Beach Film Festival as well as its fine shops, art galleries,
restaurants, and hotels, many with breathtaking sunset views.