Archival story from 2021: For 100 years, our Hollywood friends have discovered their personal paths to MPTF. One special case is Lori Weintraub, who first visited the Motion Picture Home campus as a child with her father, legendary producer Sy Weintraub. Lori’s...
For the MPTF campus, the safety of its residents and staff has long been held as a sacred duty. Safety got a little more complicated on March 9th, 2020, when new Covid-19 protocols were added to the line of duty: health questions, a temperature check, and for those...
MPTF’s Social Isolation Impact Project and its Director, Maureen Feldman, were honored by the Los Angeles Alliance for Community Health and Aging’s Innovation Committee with its first leadership award.
Promoted to Director of Recreational Services in 2021, Wilson Wong started working for MPTF nearly 14 years ago. “I wanted to do something fun that also made a difference,” he says when describing what drew him to the profession and MPTF. Wilson illustrates the...
Jennifer Jorge was first introduced to MPTF as an intern with the Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC) 16 years ago.
On Sunday, April 25, 2021, the Academy honored MPTF, the 40th recipient and first organization, with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
John (not his real name) was a Gulf War veteran from the ‘90s and until recently an active member of IATSE.
Some may say that Courtenay Valenti’s life began under dramatic circumstances as she found herself with an unlikely fan in President Lyndon B. Johnson (seen above, showing her a basket of puppies) Courtenay’s father, famed MPAA head Jack Valenti, was a trusted...
Donald Desmond is a resident in the Goldwyn Lodge on the iconic Motion Picture Home campus and a gift to everyone around him.
Stacey Rigney’s dad, Richard “Duke” Anderson, lived in a cottage and then in Mary Pickford House at MPTF for 8 years
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