Picturing Pasadena
Although it’s difficult for any newspaper story to mention all Oscar-related filming locations in our region, there was at least one key omission in “Winning Locations” (by Susan King and Robin Rauzi, March 22): the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia.
More than 90 feature films have been shot at the Arboretum, including Oscar winner “The Best Years of Our Lives,” Oscar contenders “High Noon,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington” and “Mississippi Burning” and the acclaimed “The African Queen.”
Other prominent filming locations in the West San Gabriel Valley are the Huntington Gardens, Sierra Madre and homes along the western and southern edges of Pasadena.
All of these will be featured in an exhibit, “Hollywood Comes to Pasadena,” of which I am curator. It opens Sept. 23 at the Pasadena Historical Museum and will end Jan. 13.
JOHN GREGORY
Arcadia
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