Celebrity nursing home: 59 Photos
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Brinsworth House, Twickenham. It is decorated throughout to emphasise and represent its theatrical lineage and keeps the ethos alive. Brinsworth House is fully equipped to care for the elderly, frail, and physically disabled and the residents are cared for by a highly trained team of dedicated nursing staff.
However, Denville Hall care home is actually used as a retirement home for professional actors, actresses and members of the theatrical professions who left life on the stage to tread boards of a different kind.
LCCA is the biggest privately owned chain of nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the country and the only one in the U.S. to have minted a billionaire. The $3.2 billion (2018 sales) company is entirely owned by Tennessee billionaire Forrest Preston, who built it from scratch over the last half-century.
On May 8, 1902, The Actors Fund opened a home for retired entertainers on Staten Island. In 1928, the City of New York took possession of the property to enlarge an adjacent park. The Actors Fund Home moved to the former mansion of millionairess Hetty Green, located on a six-acre estate in Englewood, New Jersey.
Residents
- Hylda Baker (died 1986)
- Penny Calvert (died 2014), dancer and first wife of Sir Bruce Forsyth.
- Pearl Carr (died 2020)
- Derek Cooper (died 2014), journalist, broadcaster and food specialist.
- Charlie Drake (died 2006)
- Roy Fox (died 1982), British dance band leader.
- Alan Freeman (died 2006)
- Mona Hammond (died 2022)