Professional ballroom dancer Cheryl Burke of Dancing With the Stars has purchased a midcentury modern post-and-beam house in the Hollywood Hills for $1,295,000.

The three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,494-square-foot home, built in 1957, has 180-degree city and mountain views, a stone fireplace, vaulted wood ceilings and a separate studio office. There are two decks for dining, lounging, entertaining or practicing a season-winning samba.

Burke, 25, purchased the house from Jon Shapiro, executive producer of the Daytime Emmy-winning PBS series Curious George. Shapiro bought the property in 2007 for $1,539,000, public records show.

CHER'S ESTATE

BACK ON MARKET

Update: Now that the interiors are redone, Cher has put her ocean-view Malibu estate back on the market for $41 million.

The singer-songwriter-actress had listed the home at $45 million in August but withdrew it in early May while the work was going on, according to her listing agent, Robert Kass of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills.

The Italian Renaissance-inspired house, which the 63-year-old Cher built in 1999, has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a theater and a gym in 13,126 square feet. It sits on 1.7 acres of bluff top with a tennis court, infinity pool and a guesthouse.

The updated look is ``light, Zen, bright, beachy and beautiful,'' Kass said.

CHESTNUT LISTS HOME

IN THE HIDDEN HILLS

Actor Morris Chestnut, whose breakthrough role came in the film Boyz N the Hood, has listed his digs N the Hills at $4,495,000.

The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom remodeled Mediterranean sits on 2.4 acres in bucolic Hidden Hills section of L.A. It features a tennis court, pool, covered patio, a barbecue area and a five-stall stable, according to the Multiple Listing Service. A long sweeping driveway leads past mature trees and an expansive grass lawn to a porte-cochere.

The 5,522-square-foot house, built in 1974 and expanded over the last two years, has a teen suite on one floor, and all other living areas on the main floor. There are open-beam ceilings, stone floors and two master bedroom suites. French doors off one suite open to the pool.

Chestnut, 40, purchased the home in 2007 for $3.3 million. TALENTED TOLAND

LEAVES HIS MARK

Actor-composer-artist Michael Toland and his wife, Stephanie, have sold a 1921 Mediterranean in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $2.5 million.

The couple restored the five-bedroom, 6 ½-bathroom, 5,995-square-foot home ``back to its original beauty,'' Michael Toland said, ``and added all the modern stuff,'' such as marble bathrooms and a gourmet kitchen.

The home was designed on a grand scale with extra-large living and dining rooms for entertaining. The Tolands purchased the property for $1,385,000 in 2003.

The TV and film composer is also a fine artist. He left his mark by painting an antique Mediterranean map at the entrance to the rumpus room of the two-story estate.

``We loved that place,'' he said, but it was time to downsize.

The pair hasn't moved far. ``We found a great midcentury place in the hills overlooking Lake Hollywood that we will be calling home for awhile,'' Toland said.

ALAN LADD'S SON LISTS HIS HOUSE

The Beverly Hills Post Office area home of producer David Ladd and his wife, actress Dey Young, is on the market at $5,995,000.

The gated house, which looks more East Coast than West, sits on wooded 1.1 acres with a pool, lighted tennis court, canyon views, a motor court and a guesthouse. The two-story home, built in 1937, has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 5,536 square feet. There is a library pub, a sun room, staff quarters for two and French doors.

Ladd, 62, the son of leading man Alan Ladd, started acting with his father as a child.

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