I knew I was buying “the Dynasty house,” but when I found out, some months after the purchase, that the Marx Brothers had shot at the property for the exteriors for Duck Soup, I was over the moon! (My office was in the parlor for a couple years. What a great story – and of keen interest to me since I owned this house for about six or seven years around the turn of the century. While further details about this group’s history await discovery, apparently the bureau assisted, for example, with renting locations used for the 1937 production of A Star is Born. Lee Fay Turner ran the bureau from at least 1929 to 1951. The win-win arrangement allowed the wealthy to support charity without spending a dime, while saving the studios the tremendous cost of building sets in lieu of filming at true locations. The participating owners allowed filming on their property in exchange for rental fees paid by the studios, that were in turn donated to the Assistance League’s charitable causes.
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Hancock Banning that rented lavish locations for use by movie studios. The Jewett estate was one of thousands of stately homes, churches, and country clubs, ranging from Burlingame to San Diego, listed in the 1920s-1950s with the Assistance League Film Location Bureau, a charitable organization founded by Mrs. (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation Pictometry Bird’s Eye (C) 2015 Pictometry International Corp. The north garden in the Spring Fever frame has been lost to subdivision at the bottom edge. All views are oriented properly to the aerial photo, except for the Cops gate which was filmed from the street looking towards the home. This landmark tree still guards the home, and is visible from the front gate (see below).Ĭlick to enlarge – looking south at the Jewett estate today, with Cops at top, Duck Soup middle left and right, Spring Fever lower left, and Born to Kill lower right.
Thus, this view of Harpo fleeing Groucho (left) was filmed at the turnaround looking north. We know from movies such as Born to Kill and Spring Fever (and confirmed by modern aerial views) that the massive oak tree standing in the driveway turnaround is situated off center, near the south end of the turnaround. For this version of the joke Groucho attempts to outsmart Harpo by sitting on the motorbike instead, but even then Harpo prevails, as this time the sidecar drives away, once again leaving Groucho stranded. The estate’s north gardens were lost when the property was subdivided.ĭuring one running gag in Duck Soup Groucho is left behind each time Harpo picks him up with a motorcycle sidecar. Through the trees to the right behind Groucho is the two-story guest house still standing at what was the north end of the estate. The fountain behind him appears in the Spring Fever frame (left).
Groucho surprises the awaiting guests by making his entrance from the side.
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