Ohio’s “Big House” is tied to Hollywood legends and literary glory ➡️ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield returned from France in the late 1930s, restoring this “worn out” farmland into Malabar Farm. At its center, he built “The Big House”. With 32 rooms, it certainly fits the description. His career included dozens of notable works like “Pleasant Valley”, written about life on the farm. Eleven motion pictures were made from his works, which connected him deeply with the Hollywood crowd. His friends James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, and Joan Fontaine were frequent visitors to the farm – Bogart and Lauren Bacall even got married there in 1945. When Bromfield died in 1956, his estate was saved by Doris Duke, James Cagney, and others, who banded together to buy it for $140,000. In 1976, it became an official State Park, where visitors can see the Farm, tour the Big House, hike nature trails, drive atop Mt. Jeez, and participate in recreational activities just a...