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Post by fangirl1975 on Jul 13, 2017 0:38:35 GMT
I wouldn't complain about living in stately Wayne Manor.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jul 13, 2017 2:28:44 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jul 13, 2017 2:30:23 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 13, 2017 2:32:55 GMT
pimpinainteasy et al. First thing I thought of, believe it or not, was the farm in Christmas in Connecticut... And of course the Blandings' "dream house"... and Jim Blandings's original ideal as well...
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jul 13, 2017 2:39:54 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jul 13, 2017 2:51:37 GMT
Kim Novak strolls the house designed by architect Kirk Douglas in Strangers When We Meet. The house still exists, though it has been heavily modified. The asking price as of 2012: $5M.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 13, 2017 2:52:48 GMT
I think I saw this topic online the other week... the Home Alone house gets a shoutout.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 13, 2017 2:58:21 GMT
I went to college right around the corner from this place.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 13, 2017 7:23:56 GMT
Was just watching a bit of Suspicion (1941), and the McLaidlaw home of Lina's family (Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whitty) is the epitome of "picturesque movie English:" half-timbering, leaded windows, corbels and knee-walled terraces from the exterior; interiors full of Tudor arches, paneling and other heavy woodwork that's at once rustic yet elegant. "Jeeves, bring my pipe and leash the hounds for a walk!" Leave Her To Heaven (1945) features not one, not two but three fabulous homes: the hacienda of Gene Tierney's Berent family in New Mexico, their Bar Harbor house and Richard Harland's (Cornel Wilde) writing lodge, also in Maine. The Hooked On Houses site has copious frame grabs of all three: Hooked On Houses - Houses Onscreen - Leave Her To Heaven
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Post by telegonus on Jul 13, 2017 9:24:11 GMT
Some great houses listed here. I'm fond of houses in Noir, horror and mystery films. Dark and stormy night type houses are favorites of mine. Universal had some grand old places on their back lot, including the three very different residences of the Frankenstein family in the Thirties starting with the 1931 Frankenstein, which was their village residence, their "low lying" castle in Bride, then the seemingly deliberately over the top Gothic castle of the 1939 Son. Warners had the delightfully spooky Blackstone Shoals in Doctor X and the Southern mansion Jezebel lived in in the 1938 film. Fox had Baskerville manor in the 1939 Hound Of The Baskervilles, and many others as well. Then David Selzick had Tara in Gone With The Wind. In recent years, by which I mean the last forty , the house Buffalo Bill dwelt in in Silence Of The Lambs takes the cake. Scariest residence I've ever seen in any movie. The dungeon of a basement provides the movie with a spooky and frightening climax. That it's actually a real house, somewhere in we stern Pennsylvania that people actually once lived in makes it even creepier: Hollywood didn't create this. It was a place designed and built for people to actually live in.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 13, 2017 13:58:43 GMT
Universal had some grand old places on their back lot, including the three very different residences of the Frankenstein family in the Thirties starting with the 1931 Frankenstein, which was their village residence, their "low lying" castle in Bride, then the seemingly deliberately over the top Gothic castle of the 1939 Son. I still recall the long and lively discussion we had back on IMDB that began comparing the set designs of those three films, wandered from there to the Vasquez Rocks and finally made its way to one juxtaposing the screen personas of Warren William and Melvyn Douglas! Those meandering threads were fun.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 13, 2017 18:06:07 GMT
Universal had some grand old places on their back lot, including the three very different residences of the Frankenstein family in the Thirties starting with the 1931 Frankenstein, which was their village residence, their "low lying" castle in Bride, then the seemingly deliberately over the top Gothic castle of the 1939 Son. I still recall the long and lively discussion we had back on IMDB that began comparing the set designs of those three films, wandered from there to the Vasquez Rocks and finally made its way to one juxtaposing the screen personas of Warren William and Melvyn Douglas! Those meandering threads were fun. Yup. Those were fun threads, Doghouse. Hollywood sort of got out of the habit of making grand houses of the sort we've been discussing here after 1950. It was a golden age thing, and the art directors ruled in those days. Also, the kinds of housing we've been discussing are old or old-style, while postwar, the suburbs we all the rage and the new homes being built set new fashions and norms, were far less individual looking, with a minimum of styling of the sort that would draw attention to itself. Also, as to interiors, furnishings were more sparse and functional and overall homes were far less "cluttered". I think of the home the beieged family lived in in The Desperate Hours. A fairly prosperous family and yet their house was bland and uninviting.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Jul 13, 2017 19:34:35 GMT
The cottage from "The Enchanted Cottage'.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-style house in "North By Northwest".
Bag End from "The Lord of the Rings/Hobbit" movies.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 13, 2017 19:55:39 GMT
Yup. Those were fun threads, Doghouse. Hollywood sort of got out of the habit of making grand houses of the sort we've been discussing here after 1950. It was a golden age thing, and the art directors ruled in those days. Also, the kinds of housing we've been discussing are old or old-style, while postwar, the suburbs we all the rage and the new homes being built set new fashions and norms, were far less individual looking, with a minimum of styling of the sort that would draw attention to itself. Also, as to interiors, furnishings were more sparse and functional and overall homes were far less "cluttered". I think of the home the beieged family lived in in The Desperate Hours. A fairly prosperous family and yet their house was bland and uninviting. True, Telegonus (sorry for interrupting in the middle of your conversation, fellas), but then I think about an art director like Ken Adam, whose first-rate, iconic work was all done post-war...
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Post by telegonus on Jul 14, 2017 0:37:17 GMT
Jo Van Fleet's house of ill-repute in East of EdenThe Maine summer house in A Summer Place, which actually sits on a beautiful hill in Pacific Grove, Ca. Sam Shepard's farm house in Days of HeavenThe house in the 1962 version of The HauntingThe Amberson house in The Magnificent AmbersonsThe house in The UninvitedGreat ones, all. There's also the (sort of) house, or houses, in The Thing From Another World. Okay, residence for the soldiers and airmen. Great set. Art direction deserved an Oscar. On the downside, as to budget: The cabin in the hills in which Robert Clarke's character lives in The Astounding She-Monster. For what it is, kind of cozy, sort of a downmarket version of the places Perry Mason used to stay in on his (er) fishing expeditions. The various castles and mansions, basically the same sets, backcloths, whatever they were, that Roger Corman use to a fare thee well, circa 1960-64. Thank you, Danel Haller . They're probably gone now, really ought to have been saved for the Smithsonian or a Hollywood version of same. The place,--is railroad shack the right word for it?--that Hugo Haas resides in his 1951 sleeper Pickup. I have a fondness for the large Victorian monstrosity that Ida Lupino's very put upon character lives in in Beware, My Lovely.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2017 5:55:59 GMT
The House in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Plato takes and Jim and Judy there.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 14, 2017 6:21:25 GMT
If you are talking houses in film, then the first to come to mind has to be the Bates House and motel, both facades and both still standing on the Universal back lot in Los Angeles. In the past few years at one point, Universal ran some kind of sweepstakes contest with a first prize of a trip to Los Angeles and a one-night stay in unit one of the Bates Motel. A dream vacation. The Bates house pops up in a number of Universal TV series of the '60s, including Wagon Train, Shotgun Slade, and Thriller. Intriguingly, the Bates house interior can be seen in an episode of Laramie -- was it ever used anywhere else? AFAIK, the last non-ironic, non-referential use of the Bates exterior was in an Alias Smith & Jones episode in 1971 -- although a poster on another board claimed it was used in an episode of Quincy. Robert Horton moseys on up to the Bates house in Wagon Train
Yes, the interior of the Bates house was used, somewhat fragementedly (sic) in several episodes of the Thriller TV series, among them Mr. George, The Purple Room, An Attractive Family, among others. It was also featured, outside and some of the inside, in the Hitchcock hour An Unlocked Window, and in several of the scenes it's quite obvious, especially if you're seen Psycho a few times. Some of the interior was used in other Hitchcock episodes as well, among them the half-hour Craig's Will.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 14, 2017 6:26:56 GMT
The House in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Plato takes and Jim and Judy there. That's a great one in Rebel. It was the J. Paul Getty house and if you look closely you can see it's the same house as the one Gloria Swanson's mad ex-silent screen queen lived in in Sunset Blvd, as well as,--I'll betcha dollars to donuts--the same swimming pool William Holden is seen floating in at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 14, 2017 7:28:55 GMT
telegonus Love your choices - they are unique and interesting, Beware, My Lovely obviously the most conventional. The Corman creations are notable, of course, because they work so beautifully and were made on a dime, as you note. The perfect illustration of the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention." I'm not familiar with The Astounding She-Monster, but it sounds interesting, too. And you've reminded me of another kind of unusual domicile: the shacks/tents in The Grapes of Wrath - abodes that fully define the characters and their conflicts. Beware, My Lovely's house was conventional, I agree, Spiderwort, and yet in its posaic aspects there was a baleful monolithicness (okay, "sic" 'em) to it that worked, better I think than if they'd used a real mansion, which wouldn't have worked. That house was big and roomy, and of its time in that regard, but not elegant. Richard Widmark's waterfront digs in Pickup On South Street, complete with his harbor cooled beer was kinda neat. From a few years earlier, the I believe it's the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles abode that Burt Lancaster's family lives in in CXriss Cross is impressive, especially in its (literal) elevation, with all those stairs. Burt again, in the same studio's (Universal) All My Sons, one of the best big old fashioned but un-glamorous yet comfy as all get-out and very real life feeling family homes I've ever seen in a movie. I love that house, the living rooms, the upstairs, the small but cozy back yard. As to places where hobos and homeless people reside, or did, during the Depression, how's about My Man Godfrey's eponymous character's Central Park digs in that movie; and then the contrast with the Bullock's townhouse. Beautiful movie. I can't help but wonder why some studios were good at designing nice looking places to live, work and hang out, and other were not. MGM, RKO and Universal were the best for that. Fox could go there, though I find their look generic, as in almost too typically Hollywood, without's Metro's larger than life qualities. Warners wasn't great at it and yet they could get it right ( Arsenic And Old Lace, Key Largo), while I think that Paramount was the worst, or maybe I should say unreal. Something about their houses and hotel rooms, cocktail lounges and restaurants, fail to draw me in.
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