You may not know him by his given name, but Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz was an actor, singer, nightclub entertainer and comedian with a Hollywood career that spanned nearly fifty years—who performed under the stage name Danny Thomas. In front of the camera, he was known for his turn as the patriarch on ABC’s and CBS’s Make Room for Daddy (which later got a name change to The Danny Thomas Show), but his major television success came as a producer of hit shows like The Mod Squad, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and The Andy Griffith Show.
Thomas’s most enduring legacy, though, is as the founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—a Memphis, Tennessee, pediatric research and development facility devoted to finding cures for life-threatening childhood diseases.
Now, the Beverly Hills home of the big-hearted entertainer who died in 1991, can be yours for a mere $135 million.
The 18,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom home was built for blowouts: it features 17 bathrooms, so there’s never a line, no matter how big the party. Among the gated Italian-style villa’s opulent details are gold leaf crown moldings, hand-woven carpets, European-inspired murals, Old-world fireplaces and antique chandeliers.
Out back, an ornate dining rotunda is joined by a large, checkerboard marble terrace and an arc-shaped pool with an attached spa on a step-down platform that offers gorgeous vistas of the Los Angeles skyline—a view you can also make out from the indoor dining room through the arched back loggia.