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Lucky Night (1939) with Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor
Loved it
Loved it
I hate subtitles!
That Thing You Do (1996)
I had forgotten that movie. It was really cute
I've got pics of the appliance store set with all those fantastic vintage TVs and radios.
Knowing the layout of the Old Towne area of Orange where parts of the movie was filmed, that scene really cracks me up. Old Towne Orange, is dominated by a traffic circle (Chapman Avenue and Glassell Street) which splits the main part on Glassell in half. The appliance store set was located at the north end of the Circle. At the beginning of the scene the mailbox where Liv Tyler is mailing her letter was just several doors north of the appliance store on the same side of the street. When she hears their song on the radio she excitedly heads east. She's then across Glassell running south (past the appliance store! lol) in search of Ethan Embry who's at the army navy store* at the south end of the Circle. In the next shot they're magically back on the north end of the Circle running south, again bypassing the appliance store!
*it's an actual army navy store
What a funny story! It's really neat that you were able to watch it and get pictures
I posted a pic of Glassell that I took in 2004 in the Ghost Signs thread. At 1:55 in the film clip the Masonic Building with the white doorway leading upstairs can clearly be seen.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?12337-Ghost-signs/page4
The other funny story is when they were filming at Watson's Drug Store there was a huge crowd (mostly women) across the street on Chapman hoping to get a glimpse of Tom Hanks. Somehow I managed to wander over to the side entrance around the corner where I knew Tom Hanks and the rest of cast came in and out. There was hardly anybody there so I stationed myself where I could get a good shot of Tom Hanks when he left for the day. With camera in hand I patiently waited some 90 minutes when the limo arrived ready to pick up Mr. Hanks. Still hardly anybody was there. When Tom Hanks came out somebody shouted "There he is!" In a microsecond the limo was mobbed by a huge crowd that practically materialised out of nowhere, totally ruining the shot! In of itself it was like a scene from a movie.
Here We Go Again (1942) with Fibber McGee and Molly, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and The Great Gildersleeve. Your favorite radio stars play their audio selves on the big screen. Most of the story takes place at a ritzy mountain resort, the exteriors of which look sort of like Big Bear or Arrowhead. Missus Hood commented that you could close your eyes and it's a radio show; that's how closely the script was tailored to the actors (in fact, there's an opening credit for extra material written for the stars).
Ditto!It's Complicated with Meryl Streep. Good flick.