2400 El Contento Drive

2400 El Contento Drive started as a 4 room, 2 story sales office for Vinecrest Sales Company in 1926 when they started building homes in the area.  6301 Quebec Drive was the original address used on the building permit but immediately changed to the current address.  (6301 Quebec Drive would be the house across the street, "The Double Indemnity" house, built in 1927.

In the image below, the arrow is pointing to this residence, 2400 El Contento Drive.  6301 Quebec Drive is across the street; to the left of 2400 El Contento Drive is the residence at 6225 Quebec Drive.

By 1930, the Vinecrest office was now officially a home with five rooms.  In 1931, owner E.H. Booth added a garage to the house and used the residence as a rental property during the 1930s and 1940s.  Between 1943 and 1946 Broadway and film character actors Charles Flynn (1912-1965) and his wife, Jane Patten, rented the home.  They married in 1938 when Flynn was renting 6658 Emmet Terrace in Whitley Heights.  During World War 2, both temporarily halted their careers to join the war effort.  Charles joined the Navy and was stationed in the Pacific.  Jane joined the USO in a troupe headed by Shakespearean actor Maurice Evans and also went to the Pacific.  Their letters were featured in the book "Letters from the Pacific: A World War II Romance, written by their daughter, Kathy Flynn de Gaxiola in 2012. 

Charles Flynn started his career in the radio series "Jack Armstrong: All American Boy", appeared in several Broadway shows and was a character actor in over 50 films during the 1940s and 1950s.  Flynn met Jane in theater and she worked as a character actress during the 1940s.  The Flynns eventually moved to Vashon Island where Flynn died in 1965 at the age of 52 after a brief illness.  He was survived by Jane and their two children.

In 1976, owners Jack and Evelyn Bennett, who resided in this home from the 1950s to the 1990s, put in a swimming pool.  Actress Kathleen Robertson, known for his role as Claire Arnold, in Beverly Hills 90210 from 1993 to 1997, purchased this home in 1998.  She married producer Chris Cowles (Chappaquiddick) in 2004, had two children and remained in this house until they sold it to actor Michael Angarano and his fiancee, actress Maya Erskine, in 2020.  In 2013, Robertson increased the size of the home by moving the kitchen into the garage and building a detached garage.  There are two bedrooms on the second floor.