Red Studios Hollywood (also branded as RSH Studios and formerly Desilu-Cahuenga Studios and Ren-Mar Studios) is a rental studio located at 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood, Los Angeles on premises that were formerly the home of Desilu Productions.
Originally it was the site of Metro Pictures Back Lot #3 in 1920. In 1947 it was rebuilt as a nine-stage studio called Equity Pictures and became Motion Picture Center Studios a year later. It has been used for a wide variety of film and television production, and the studio has been known by many different names.
In 1953, after filming the first two seasons of the I Love Lucy TV series at General Service Studios, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were looking for a larger studio. They looked at the lot (known at the time as Motion Picture Center) and signed a ten-year lease on the property.[1] In 1955 Desilu bought the studio.
In 1959, when Desilu bought other studios in Hollywood and Culver City, the studio's name was changed to Desilu-Cahuenga Studios[2] to avoid confusion with the other Desilu Studios.[3] In 1984, ten years after being independently owned and operated for use by producers, it became Ren-Mar Studios.
The front (Cahuenga Boulevard) gate of Ren-Mar was used to represent the "Maroon Cartoon Studio" for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). In 1991, the Richard Simmons exercise tape "Sweatin' to the Oldies 3" was taped at Ren-Mar.
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