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Warner Brother movie set trivia

posted 17 years ago by laxlon
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The wonderful staircase at the Raike mansion is a standing set used in many other Warners movies and TV shows from 1948 to the early 1960s

Here's an approximate list with dates.

1948 Bright Leaf Bacall's Southern Plantation
1950 Tea for Two Doris Day's Long Island mansion
1951 Strangers on a Train Leo G Carrol's Washington Mansion
1953 So Big Mansion of possible father in law
1957 Band of Angeles Clark Gable's southern plantation
1957 Spirit of St Louis Hotel lobby before Lindburgh takes off
1958 Auntie Mame Mame's Beekman Pl home, reset many times
1959 A Summer Place Fancy school attended by Sandra Dee
1960 Ocean's Eleven Ilka Chase's fancy mansion
1961 Parrish Karl Malden's mansion
1962 Rome Adventure Rossano Brassi's Rome apartment

Any other sightings, let me know.
Richard

[–] rkolsen 17 years ago

I like alot of old warner bros. movies myself and here is two more sightings:
Four wives 1939-Ben and Thea's Home
The Young Philedelphians 1959- Paul Newman coming down the staircase at
Mr. Warton's home(Also in this movie, Paul Newman's character- Antony Lawrence's
Home was used in lots of warner brother's movies

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[–] laxlon 8 years ago

I think the 1939 reference is wrong but the 1959 sighting is on the mark.

The Young Philadelphians needs to be added to my YouTube Video. By the way, the house depicted in this story also has scenes involving exteriors. Those were shot at the Will Rogers Home off Sunset Blvd. in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles. Rogers polo field is still there and you can watch polo games most every weekend, just for the price of parking at the state park.

"It costs extra to carve 'Schmuck' on a tombstone, but you would definitely be worth it."

[–] ribarproductions 16 years ago

Okay, maybe not a staircase, but how about music? I just watched the movie "Johnny Belinda" the other night, and it's a great example of the old Warner Bros recycling machine at work. Max Steiner's beautiful-lilting musical refrain, "Belinda's Theme" which is used throughout the movie "Johnny Belinda", is also the same beautiful-lilting musical refrain, used throughout the movie "Parrish." W.B. repeatedly used songs they owned the rights to, over and over in different films. Songs like, "Perfidia", "I'll String Along With You", "You Must Of Been A Beautiful Baby", and the Love Theme from "Now Voyager", just to mention a few.

Richard Barnes

[–] Jaynrand 15 years ago

I also love that the interior of the American Bookstore in ROME ADVENTURE is the River City Library where Marion the Librarian worked in THE MUSIC MAN.

[–] backofthevan 15 years ago

Thanks for this thread, it's all fascinating info. Now I know I'm not mis-hearing things. I've often thought a piece of film music was familiar, now I know why! I suspected music was recycled in different films, and thanks for the confirmation. Also love the info about the staircase and other locations. Thumbs up! :)

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[–] EliotTempleton 9 years ago

"Belinda's Theme" is not used in Parrish. Steiner wasn't above recycling his music (his nautical theme from A Stolen Life, shows up again in A Summer Place, for example, and Now, Voyager's "It Can't Be Wrong" in Mildred Pierce) but the music in Parrish is not from Johnny Belinda.

[–] denvertrends 9 years ago

The staircase is in so many movies! Here is a link for video showing 14. But, I think there are more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCrBYVQtbM