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The Toluca Lake Homes of Shemp Howard
Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges.Toluca Lake, a tony neighborhood located partly in Burbank and Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, has long been a favorite place to live for Hollywood...
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Jersey Boys (2014) - Film Locations
Jersey Boys, the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons, is getting the cinema treatment. The film version, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Christopher Walken and...
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Perfect Strangers (1950) - Film Locations
Dennis Morgan and Ginger RogersWhen I watch classic movies I often watch them differently than contemporary films. With classic films I can get sucked in just by the vintage fashions and sometimes the...
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Katharine Hepburn's Hiking Spot
Hepburn hiking country road during break from filming in London.Katharine Hepburn was always athletic. At an early age, while growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, Hepburn's father, a doctor,...
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Cass Timberlane (1947) - Film Locations
In the film version of Sinclair Lewis's story, Cass Timberlane (1947), Spencer Tracy plays the title character, a judge who falls for a younger woman (Lana Turner) from the "wrong side of the tracks."...
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Meet John Doe (1941) - Film Locations
Frank Capra is one of those directors where I can watch just about any one of his films and be entertained. Many of Capra's movies are heavily sentimental, wholesome message pictures which some critics...
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Big City (1937) - Film Locations
Luise Rainer and Spencer TracyWhen I really like an actor I feel the need to see all of their films. I know not all of them will be great. Some will probably be only so-so or simply bad, but I get some...
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Bronk (1975-76) - Film Locations: Koontz Hardware
Bronk (1975-1976) is a TV series starring Jack Palance. It would be only one of a couple times that Palance would be the star of his own show, but unfortunately, it only lasted one season. In films...
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Bronk (1975-76) - Film Locations: Banning House
Another landmark that can be seen in the pilot episode of the television series BRONK (1975-76) starring Jack Palance is the Banning House. Built in 1863, the Banning House was originally the home of...
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The Young Philadelphians (1959) - Film Locations
Coming up on TCM as part of their Summer Under the Stars tribute to actress Alexis Smith, is one of my favorite Paul Newman films, The Young Philadelphians (1959). Newman plays an up and coming young...
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Night Moves (1975) - Film Locations
Night Moves (1975), is a 70s era detective story starring Gene Hackman as a detective hired by an aging movie starlet to find her daughter. What at first appears to be a straight forward missing...
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Champagne For Caesar (1950) - Film Locations
In Champagne For Caesar (1950), Vincent Price, the "Master of Horror," shows that not only can he be sinister, but uproariously funny as well. I'm actually quite surprised that after this film that...
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Talking Old Hollywood: John Bengtson, Silent Filming Locations Historian
Author and Historian, John BengtsonI'm back with another installment of Talking Old Hollywood and this time I had the chance to ask silent filming locations expert and historian John Bengtson a few...
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The Rockford Files - Film Locations - Donut Prince in Burbank
While watching the Season 2 episode of THE ROCKFORD FILES, The Girl in The Bay City Boys Club (1975), I was surprised to spot the Donut Prince, in Burbank, California. I knew the Donut Prince sign was...
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tick...tick...tick... (1970) - Film Locations
Jim Brown, a football star turned actor, is the lead in ...tick...tick...tick (1970), a drama about racial relations in a small town in Mississippi. The film is similar in some ways to, In the Heat of...
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Jim Rockford and the "Paramount House"
In The Rockford Files season 2 episode, "In Hazard," Jim Rockford (James Garner) discovers a body inside the garage of a suburban house. The home just happens to be the former "Paramount House" which...
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City of Fear (1959) - Film Locations
I first learned of the film City of Fear (1959) from reading a review over at Laura's Miscellaneous Musings and I'm glad she put it on my radar. This little B film has a lot of things going for it; a...
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Cary Grant Walks His Siamese Cat
Cary Grant with his Siamese Cat. Beverly Hills 1955.Film scholar and writer Farran Nehme, a.k.a. the "Self-Styled Siren," posted the above picture taken in 1955 of Cary Grant walking his Siamese cat...
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The Music Man (1962) - Film Locations
On Wednesday, August 28, Turner Classic Movies will be playing films starring actress Shirley Jones as part of their Summer Under the Stars series. One of my personal favorites, The Music Man (1962),...
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Brainstorm (1965) - Film Locations
Many times I've watched movies where the story is dull, or the film is ridiculous, but because of some interesting film locations, I'll continue watching. That's not the case with Brainstorm (1965)...
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The Racket (1951) - Film Locations
Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan, two classic Hollywood heavyweights, go head to head in the noir The Racket (1951). Ryan is a violent crime boss trying to elect a crooked prosecutor to a judgeship by...
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Happy Land (1943) - Film Locations
Happy Land (1943) is a sentimental story about a father struggling with grief after learning that his only son was killed during World War II. The subject of the story is still relevant. Parents still...
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The Jimmy Stewart Show (1971-1972) - Film Locations
The Jimmy Stewart Show wasn't a hit when it originally aired during the 1971-1972 television season and likely wouldn't perform well today, but classic film fans may enjoy watching this sitcom that...
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The Cycle Savages (1969) - Film Locations
Now that the end of the year is upon us the studios have been releasing to theaters all of their award worthy films and campaigning for Oscar nominations. One film getting some Oscar buzz is Alexander...
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The Betty Ford Story (1987) - Film Locations
Gena Rowlands won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Betty Ford in the Made-for-TV movie, The Betty Ford Story (1987). The real Betty Ford was an interesting woman. As the First...
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