Batman’s Girl Buys in the Hills

Actress KIM BASINGER, who starts work this month with actors Alec Baldwin and Robert Loggia on Hollywood Pictures’ production of Neil Simon’s period romance “The Marrying Man,” has purchased a Hollywood Hills hideaway for nearly $1 million.

Basinger, who most recently co-starred with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in “Batman”--one of the top-grossing movies of all time--bought the 1,728-acre town of Braselton, Ga., in January with a Chicago company for $20 million. They plan to develop a film and recording center there.

Her one-story, 1,700-square-foot Hollywood Hills house has only one bedroom, but it’s behind gates, on half an acre, and has a spa. She plans to use the pied - a - terre as a retreat and place to work when she’s in town, sources said.

“It also has view of the city that would rattle your teeth,” said selling broker Alan Long of Dalton, Brown & Long.

Long wouldn’t discuss financial terms of the deal but described the house, which was built in the 1950s, as being “a wonderful Spanish bungalow that the former owner turned into a Faberge egg, it was done in such detail.”

The seller is a co-owner of a trendy beauty salon on Burton Way in Beverly Hills. He purchased a larger home behind gates farther west through Long.

Cheryl Crane, daughter of actress Lana Turner, represented Basinger through Long’s firm, though Crane is now with Alvarez, Hyland & Young. She was unavailable for comment.

TED FIELD, executive producer of the movies “Bird on a Wire” and “Three Men and a Baby,” has put his Westside estate, known as “Greenacres,” on the market at what is believed to be the highest price ever asked for a private home in the United States: $55 million.

He has also listed his two-house Aspen, Colo., compound at $29 million. “It is probably the most expensive Alpine chalet in the United States,” said Paris Moskopoulos of Paris Realty in Beverly Hills, who represents Field on both properties.

Field bought the larger, 15,000-square-foot house in Aspen a couple years ago from Chris Hemmeter, who developed the Westin Kaui Lagoons and other hotels in Hawaii. Field then purchased a 4,000-square-foot house next door from a doctor and connected the two homes, using the smaller one for guests.

Field, an heir of Chicago department store magnate Marshall Field who is listed in the Forbes 400 as having a net worth of more than $500 million, and his third wife, Susie, recently filed for divorce after 2 1/2 years of marriage.

“But they are on very good terms,” Moskopoulos said. “In fact, they are dating each other.”

He is buying her a 23,000-square-foot Beverly Hills house near Greenacres, however, which is in escrow at close to $14 million, its list price with Bruce Nelson of John Bruce Nelson & Associates. Until that deal closes, in a couple of months, Susie, who is expecting the couple’s third child, is staying at Greenacres, which Field owns and also calls home.

That house is 36,000 square feet in size, with five family bedrooms and four bedrooms for the staff.

Greenacres, partly in Los Angeles and partly in Beverly Hills, was built in 1928 by silent-screen star Harold Lloyd, who lived in it until he died at age 77 in 1971. It was a museum for a year, when it was sold because funds to maintain it ran short and neighbors were complaining about the traffic it generated.

The 16-acre property was subdivided in 1976, and the Italian Renaissance-style house, on a bit more than 5 acres, was sold in 1979. The new owners restored it, had it designated a historic monument, then sold it, when they were divorced, to Field.

He moved into it in May, 1987, after buying it for what was considered a low price at the time: $6.5 million. Then he practically gutted the mansion, restored everything and installed an 80-foot-long swimming pool.

Field has held a number of political and other fund-raisers at Greenacres since completing the restoration, including a sit-down dinner in February for 850 people. Field also owns a Malibu Colony house that he bought from actor Michael Landon last August for $6 million, then nearly razed and is almost completed rebuilding.

He owns a Bel-Air house that he bought from comedienne Joan Rivers last August for about $5 million, which is being used by his second wife, and he owns another Bel-Air house that is being used by his first wife.

He also owns a 40-acre ranch in Santa Barbara and the 16-story Murdock Plaza in Westwood, where the Interscope Group, encompassing his movie production and record companies, are headquartered.

Lakers guard LARRY DREW and his wife, Sharon, just purchased a new, 4,500-square-foot house in Encino for close to its asking price of $1.15 million.

“They just had a baby, Larry Drew II, and that’s why they wanted a big house,” said a spokeswoman for Fred Sands Realtors, which had the listing through Sandy Brickman and Cynthia Leech.

The Drews had been living in Inglewood, according to selling broker Stephen Shapiro of Stan Herman & Associates, Beverly Hills.

Shapiro also represented realtor Herman in the purchase of a Carbon Beach house with 100 feet of ocean frontage for nearly $5.5 million.