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.

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