A comedy-adventure featuring a disreputable but love-able mutt; Scenes filmed in Pacific Grove, including the coastline along Ocean View Boulevard, the historic retreat and downtown, where a Real Estate office was transformed into a church for a wedding scene and a bank into a City Hall; Film crew was here for 10 days .
Tom Hanks
Roger Spottiswoode, and Disney Films
From a play by Elmer Harris; Memorable performance by miss Wyman, who won an Oscar for Best Actress playing a deaf mute in a sensitive story about life in the silent world; Oscar nominee for Best Picture, Screenplay, Direction, Cinematography, Music Score and Art Direction; Scenes filmed along the Pebble Beach-Pacific Grove Waterfront.
Jane Wyman, & Lew Ayres
Jean Negulesco and Warner Films
Story about the youngest of a family of shanty-town prostitutes who falls in love with an honest hamburger stand proprietor; Scenes filmed along the Pacific Grove Waterfront.
Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, & Marjorie Rambeau
Gregory La Cava and RKO Films
20th century-fox; Story about a lighthouse keeper who rescues a ship-wrecked Shirley Temple and raises her as a daughter; Background scenes, without either miss Temple or Kibbe, filmed at Point Lobos, Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey and in Pacific Grove; At least 18 local people were hired as extras, mostly from the Worker’s Protective Association of East Monterey; The director and film crew stayed at The Old Hotel Del /monte, once the playground of the rich and famous and now the Naval Postgraduate School, and at The Old Hotel San Carlos, now The Monterey Marriott.
Shirley Temple, & Guy Kibbee
David Butler Films
Comedy drama; Scenes filmed at Carmel Highlands and the beach at Pacific Grove; Film crew stayed at the Highlands Inn.
Margaret Livingston & Lou Telegen
William Fox Film Co. Films
Jane is a comely little slavey in a fishermen’s village; The only two friends she has among all the inhabitants are David Holden, the aged keeper of the lighthouse, “The Eye of the Night,” and Rob Benson, a young fisher lad whom she has loved with all her heart; Main exterior scenes were filmed here, on the beach at Pacific Grove, at Point Pinos Lighthouse and along the 17-Mile Drive.
William H. Thompson, Margery Wilson & Thornton Edwards
Walter Edwards Films
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