Actress Meg Ryan, who will star opposite Timothy Hutton in the December comedy Serious Moonlight, seems to be getting serious about selling her Bel-Air home. She has put it back up for sale at $14.2 million -- a 27 percent price reduction from what she was asking in 2008.

The Spanish-style house, built in 1931, has been restored and features stenciled beam ceilings, arched doorways and ironwork. French doors open to city and ocean views, a loggia, a dining pavilion and the pool.

There are six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 6,877 square feet. The four fireplaces include one in the guesthouse.

She had listed the compound in October 2008 at $19.5 million but withdrew it from the market at the end of February.

The property was purchased in 2000 for $8,995,000, public records show.

1937 ESTATE HOUSED

LINKLETTER, MANCINI

A 1937 estate in Holmby Hills owned by radio and TV host Art Linkletter in the 1950s, Oscar-winning composer Henry Mancini in the 1990s and former Hollywood Park owner Marge Everett until 2005 has sold for $13.2 million.

The Georgian-style house includes nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms in about 12,000 square feet. The gated two-story has a formal entry with a sweeping spiral staircase, a paneled library with a hidden door to the wine cellar, a 50-foot-long screening room and staff quarters.

It sits on about three-quarters of an acre with a front motor court, a pool, spa and two-bedroom guesthouse.

The 2,500-square-foot master bedroom wing contains a sitting room, his and hers bathrooms, four of the home's eight fireplaces, a sauna and a terrace overlooking the grounds.

The remodeled property originally came on the market in May 2008 at $27.5 million and previously sold in 2006 for $10.25 million, according to public records.

TV SURGEON LISTS

HOME ON SUNSET STRIP

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, one of the surgeons featured in Dr. 90210, has listed his Sunset Strip-area home for $3,495,000.

The walled and gated villa has three bedrooms, a maid's room and three bathrooms in 3,405 square feet. There are city views from balconies off the bedrooms. Built in 1953, the two-story house has a subterranean wine cellar, a media room and formal living and dining rooms. The grounds include wrought-iron gazebos, antique fountains, a koi pond, waterfall, mature trees and a pool.

Before buying the house more than a decade ago, Ellenbogen lived on a 118-acre oceanfront cattle ranch with year-round streams and a three-acre pond in Gaviota, 30 miles west of Santa Barbara.

``It was hard to leave,'' he said. ``But a busy cosmetic plastic surgery practice is not an Internet job, so I moved back to L.A., close to my office.''

Ellenbogen, a board-certified plastic surgeon, appeared on the reality TV show in 2004 and 2005.

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