Studio City began its development in the 1920s. Mack Sennett had outgrown his studio facilities in what would later become Silverlake, so the man behind the wacky Keystone Cops built a new facility near Ventura Boulevard and Laurel Canyon. He started calling the community "Studio City," and the name stuck.
Over the years the studio has changed both hands and names and was linked with some of the biggest stars in the business. Among them: Charles Chaplin, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bette Davis, Tony Curtis, Jennifer Jones and Joan Fontaine. Today the site is called CBS Studio Center, where such popular TV shows as "Hill Street Blues," "Roseanne" and "Seinfeld" have been filmed.
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