More Movie Magic: More Filming Locations I’ve Photographed

I love combining my photography with my other interests, one of which is scouting out filming locations for movies and TV shows I’ve watched. A couple years ago I wrote a post about some of my favorite filming locations I’ve photographed. In today’s post I will share even more! Let’s take a look at more movie magic, shall we?

What appears to be an abandoned saloon in a ghost town is actually a building on the Paramount Ranch, part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in southern California. This building and the rest of the Paramount Ranch have been used in a number of movies and TV shows over the years, including Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (where it stood in as Bray’s Mercantile), Shane, Westworld and Best of the West. Sadly, much of the ranch burned down in the California wildfires of 2018 and it is currently being rebuilt.
The Santa Monica Pier, pictured here, has been featured in a wide variety of TV shows and movies, including Three’s Company, The Sting, Mannix, CHiPs, Charlie’s Angels, and The Majestic.
Griffith Observatory is one of the top landmarks in Los Angeles. It was famously featured in the James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause, but it also appeared in The Rockford Files, Adventures of Superman, and many other movies and TV shows.
The unmistakeable Hollywood sign has appeared in The Muppet Movie, The Black Dahlia, and The Day After Tomorrow, to name a few.
Double Arch, located in Arches National Park in Utah, makes an appearance in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The park also makes appearances in Thelma and Louise, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Cheyenne Autumn, and Death Valley Days. Click here to order a print of this photo.
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, now known as the TCL Chinese Theater, has been the site of many a movie premier, but it has also appeared in many films, such as A Star Is Born (1937), The Muppet Movie, Saving Mr. Banks, and Blazing Saddles.
This unassuming house stood in as home to Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1962 thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Fun fact: Judy Garland once owned the house next door!
This area of Paramount Studios is known as Lucy Park. Named for Lucille Ball, fans of The Brady Bunch will notice this area, as it appears in many exterior scenes of the show, as well as in Happy Days.
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park has been featured in countless westerns over the years, but these exact rock formations were prominently featured in Back to the Future Part III when Marty first arrives in Hill Valley in 1885, as well as in scenes from National Lampoon’s Vacation. Click here to order a print of this photo.
The Totem Pole pinnacle at Monument Valley, at left, along with the rock formations next to it, were featured at the end of the western classic How the West Was Won (albeit from the other direction), as well as the Clint Eastwood film The Eiger Sanction. Click here to order a print of this photo.
If you watched TGIF in the 90s, you will probably recognize this suburban home in Pasadena, CA as the house from the hit sitcom Step by Step starring Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers.
In nearby South Pasadena, you can see the house that George McFly lived in in 1955 in Back to the Future.
The ornate Pasadena City Hall was featured in the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator, as well as the 90s classic A Walk in the Clouds and the Amy Poehler sitcom Parks and Recreation.
This façade on Hennessy Street on the Warner Brothers backlot in Burbank can be seen in scores of movies and TV shows, among them Annie, Friends, ER, Gilmore Girls, and Pretty Little Liars.
This cabin is also a part of the Warner Brothers backlot. If you watch enough TV shows, you’ll probably see this thing. Some of the shows it has appeared in are Pretty Little Liars, Hart of Dixie, and True Blood. This is a photo that I took during the day and gave the spooky treatment in Photoshop.
This movie theater on the Warner Brothers backlot goes back many decades. It has appeared in A Star is Born (1954 version), the Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford classic The Way We Were, Gilmore Girls, Big Bang Theory, Pretty Little Liars, and the 2011 Oscar-winning silent film The Artist.
Trees are the hallmark of Palisades Park in Santa Monica. I happened to spot this tree in the 2005 Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell rom-com Bewitched (about the TV show of the same name). The park was also featured in Xanadu starring Olivia Newton-John. Click here to order a print of this photo.
The Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows in Santa Monica, CA has been featured in several movies over the years, including The Blue Dahlia, That Touch of Mink, Let’s Make it Legal, and the popular 90s TV show Melrose Place.
The ornate Melrose Gate of Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood was famously seen in the Gloria Swanson film Sunset Boulevard. It also made a cameo in an episode of The Brady Bunch, which filmed on the lot.

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