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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 II / Re: "There Will Be Blood" starring Daniel Day Lewis and... Greystone Mansion!
« on: January 04, 2008, 08:10:38 PM »Who knew that Collinwood had a bowling alley?!
A letter in yesterday's LA Times Home section:
Going bowling in 'Mars'
I enjoyed your "Set Pieces" article about Edward Doheny's Greystone Mansion, one of the my favorite L.A. film locations ["'Blood Work': ...]. But if the makers of "There Will Be Blood" had tracked down the ingeniously economical Fox B-picture "The Day Mars Invaded Earth," which was shot extensively on the grounds in 1962, they would have found that the disused bowling alley had been seen on film, fully functional, in black-and-white CinemaScope.
"Mars" provides probably the most extensive tour of the property, inside and out,, of all the feaures that were shot there, including such better-known works as "The Loved One" and "The Disorderly Orderly."
JOE DANTE, Hollywood
Again, who knew?!!
The picture of Greystone's courtyard that accompanied this letter was repeated in the same day's paper (how lazy!) for a review of the current season of Theatre 40's production "The Manor," in which Greystone itself becomes a melancholy character in the play. (For more info, a search of the Calendar '07 #1 board will bring up lots. But unfortunately, Quentin Jones has moved on, though of course yesterday's Times article also has a photo of him playing Ned Doheny, lol.)