mcm house purchase-paint colors?  

I have no paint suggestions,...
I have no paint suggestions, but congrats on the great house!!! Looks like a special house in an amazing location.

Super house. I looked at...
Super house. I looked at some of the other Beadle houses on the great Pheonix Modern website, and it looked like many of the houses used a contrasting paint scheme on the fascia.
Most of them, like yours, feature that outstanding masonry.
I noticed the tag at the website titled something like 'how to sandblast paint and stucco ...' so I am assuming that at least a couple of the Beadle homes ended up remuddled with paint on block, cement, etc.
Best of luck with the home restoration.

Will be a labor of love,but well worth it!
Fantastic house,and,wow,they sure don't have places like that here up East.Anyhow,I think you should go for an original mid century pallete of colors.

Taken from Modernism...
Taken from Modernism magazine Fall 2007
pg. 68 Top photo caption
Dan Gruber on the Gruber house-" I'd been asking him regularly about the colors. He would always say that he was thinking about them. On this day he was walking around with his head down, picking up rocks, turning them over in his hands, and then throwing them away. After about 15 minutes of this he picked up a dark chip and handed it to me. 'Hold that,' he said. The process continued for a while until he picked up another rock and gave it to me as well. Then he said, 'Those will be the colors of your house."

Interesting woofwoof. Or...
Interesting woofwoof. Or white? I like white. It would make it feel lighter as it is a heavy aesthetic.
Love the house and locale. Lucky you!

thanks!
Thank you so much for all the compliments. It is good to hear, as I am a little nervous going into a house that requires so much work. For now, I will keep things simple...the carpet will be removed and the concrete floors sanded down and sealed. The kitchen will be gutted (it has 80's country style in there now). I am going to put in some cheap IKEA Varde cabs. for now until I can afford to put in the cabs. it deserves.
I do need to paint the house imminently though. I do not like the beige color. I think looking at the rocks is a good idea..maybe a charcoal roof and overhang, and off white exterior walls? I just dont think I could do purple and pink...

I think you are right to...
I think you are right to keep the palette simple. Let the architecture sing!!!

awesome
I think you're on the right track with the charcoal roof edge. Using high contrast on the thinner elements of the house will do wonders to lighten the aesthetic.
You might also consider a contrasting color on the "pillars" so that they blend with the dark recesses. This would allow the horizontal massing above them to float a bit more, and accentuate the horizontality of the structure. Think Fallingwater: large light horizontal masses floating over darker recessed spaces.
BTW, the chain link fence and satellite dish must go. 🙂

Thanks
I like the colors. Thank you. The pillars are actually beautiful mid century block (you can see a glimpse of it in the black and white old photos) that the previous owners covered with chicken wire and stucco (I think). I'm hoping to restore the block back to it's original. Should the posts be charcoal also?

Why not restore to the original intent?
I didn't notice the original b&w shots. Definitely, if you can restore the perforated concrete blocks, do so.
Having the early photos begs the question: why not go with the original high-contrast look? It's beautiful.
I'd match the posts to whatever color you're using for the wide horizontal mass, whether it's light (like in the image I altered) or dark, as seen in the early image. I wouldn't want that strong horizontal line to get all chopped up.
I fudged some perf blocks into the images for a couple more views.

Congrats on the purchase!
This house would look good standing out from its surroundings rather than blending in.
I would do what poach suggests and go for the high contrast scheme seen in the black & white photo.

colors
Thanks poach and Gustaf. I think I like it without the posts painted in the example.
I was told that the house was originally purple and pink, painted similar to the safari hotel, also designed by Beadle. I'm not sure I want those colors. Below is a pic of the house in a newspaper spread on it from the 50's (?). It looks more charcoal and off-white to me, but I guess it's hard to know in black and white.
http://www.modernphoenix.net/safaripostcards.htm

Purple and pink? Eeeeeek.
Unless you're going to turn it into a brothel or sell it to Prince, stick with the neutrals.

Interesting photo...
Interesting photo enhancements. I've felt that dark colors on fascias on flat roof homes can seem to work very often to ground them, which is okay when you have a rather expansive home, like the one in question.
But.
Otherwise, if the house is smaller, the dark color tends to smash or confine the exterior, especially when the siding runs to a lower band of trim. Maybe some of the DA paint experts can explain said phenomenon.
By the way, I like the darker colored fascia photoshopped here, with the lighter top strip.
Oddly enough, the painting of that thin strip of metal along the top of the fascia in a contrasing color can really set a house off. Just a thought.