Editing Northridge, Los Angeles (section)

===Motion pictures and television===

Silent star [[Janet Gaynor]] and her costume-designer husband Adrian were the first owners of a spacious estate in Northridge, which was later sold to [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]].  Later, actor [[Jack Oakie]] owned the property and lived on it. The Oakie house was set for the wrecking ball, but in 2010 the city agreed to buy the Tudor-style stone landmark and its {{convert|10|acre|m2|adj=on}} ranch estate.<ref name="dailynews.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14304048 |title=Oakie House saved from destruction |publisher=LA Daily News |date=January 31, 2010 |access-date=January 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227045441/http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14304048 |archive-date=February 27, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Marion Marx, wife of [[Zeppo Marx]], and Barbara Stanwyck started Marwyck Ranch as a horse breeding farm. The original house and a small portion of the ranch still exist, and is managed by the city as Oakridge Estate Park. Northridge was known as the "Horse Capital of the West," with regular Sunday horse shows, annual stampedes, and country fairs.<ref name="dailynews.com"/>