Drama about an ex-GI with a criminal record who gets into trouble; Filmmakers, including starts from the movie, were in town for about a month from mid-July to mid-August of 1968; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, Colton Hall, Monterey Boat Works and elsewhere around the Peninsula.
Ryan O’Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young & James Daly
Alex March, and Warner Bros Films
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Bartlett who grew up on the Monterey Peninsula and moved away to become a Hollywood filmmaker; Story about a young Hollywood actor (played by Lane) who doesn’t fit in either the older generation or the younger generation, hip generation, so he drops out of college and travels; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos and Carmel; With Bartlett during the filming was his wife, actress Rhonda Fleming.
Kent Lane, Michele Carey, & Marcia Strassman
Hal Bartlett Films
Drama about a spoiled heiress and madman; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, & Barry Sullivan
William Conrad and Warner Bros Films
Story about a U.S. Diplomat in London who takes rooms with a murder suspect; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon & Kim Novak
Richard Quine, and Columbia Films
A romantic summer adventure of teenagers and their elders on an island off the coast of Maine.
Sandra Dee, Richard Egan, & Dorothy McGuire
Delmer Daves Films
20th Century Fox; Domestic drama about an officer wounded in Korea who marries his Japanese nurse and takes her home to California; Scenes filmed on the Monterey Peninsula, including Point Lobos, and in Salinas, including the first-ever filming of a movie from a helicopter.
Don Taylor, Shirley Yamaguchi, & Cameron Mitchell
King Vidor Films
Shooting title was “East is East” and alternate title was “I Married a Communist;” Story about a shipping executive being blackmailed by communists who knew he committed a crime when he was a kid; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Robert Ryan & Lorraine Day
Robert Stevenson, and RKO Films
During the filming, it had a working title of “A Woman Of My Own”; Drama about the wife of a normandy villager who hears that he has died in a concentration camp and marries the bearer of the news, who turns out to be a psycotic who had left her husband for dead- but he did not die; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, Malpaso Creek on the coast south of Carmel and elsewhere on the Monterey Peninsula and its environs; The film was plagued by delays and other problems, including retakes and re-editing and a last-minute replacement of Robert Montgomery with Hart as the male lead; Miss Garson was hospitalized after being swept off the rocks by an ocean wave at Malpaso Creek and rolled in 10 feet of water before being rescued by a Fisherman employed on the set, Monterey Purse Seine Skipper Vincent Sollecito; Mis Garson suffered bruises and a back sprain and was off to set for a week for more; MGM had wanted to put up a few buildings at the Point Lobos League, fearful of a repeat of an earlier filming episode at Point Lobos that damaged the fragile environment, tried to stop the filming althogether; MGM was allowed to film at Point Lobos but under the watchful eye of the Point Lobos League; The late 1930s to mid-’40s was a particularly favorite period for peninsula-made films, and the number during that time may have exceeded 50.
Greer Garson, Richard Hart, & Robert Mitchum
George Cukor and MGM Films.
Romantic action-adventure film about a dancer suspected of spying during the Austro-prussian War who flees to Arizona; Scenes filmed south of Carmel on a dirt road at the entrance to Garrapata Canyon and at Point Lobos.
Rod Cameron & Yvonne DeCarlo
Charles Lamont, and Universal Films
The first of the Lassie Films about a poor family forced to sell its beloved dog, but the dog makes a remarkable journey to return to them; Oscar nominee for Cinematography; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Roddy McDowall & Elizabeth Taylor
Fred M. Wilcox and MGM Films
World War II drama about attempts to liberate Norway; Scenes filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey, which was transformed into a Norwegian fishing village, Point Lobos and the shores of Pebble Beach; Carmel Valley resident Louis C. Moore was a uniformed member of the German Luftwaffe in the film.
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, & Walter Huston
Lewis Milestone and Warner Bros Films
A story of comedy, romance and suspense about a second wife who is haunted by the image of a first wife; Set in Monte Carlo and Cornwall, England; Oscars for Best Picture and Cinematography and nominations for Director, Musical Score, Film Editing, Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, which stood in for the coastline of Cornwall.
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, & Judith Anderson
Alfred Hitchcock and Selznick International Pictures Films
Solemn drama about young girl in Salem, Mass., in 1692 accused of witchcraft and saved by her lover; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos; Film crew traveled in private railroad cars and stayed at The Old Hotel San Carlos in Monterey.
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, & Bonita Granville
Frank Lloyd and Paramount Films
Miss Garbo’s last dramatic picture in which she played the polish mistress, Marie Walewska, of Napoleon, and the story was about their doomed affair; Oscar nominee for Best Actor (Charles Boyer) and Art Director; Background shots (involving none of the starts) filmed on the Monterey Peninsula , with Point Lobos standing in for the Island of Elba.
Greta Garbo, & Charles Boyer
Clarence Brown and MGM 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
Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, reputed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, from which the movie was made.
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper & Lionel Barrymore
Victor Fleming, and MGM Films
Comedy-drama about a safecracker who went straight in order to get even with old rivals; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
James Cagney, Joan Blondelli, & Victor Jory
Lloyd Bacon and Warner Bros Films
A romantic romp about the adventures of a tomboy in New York City; Scenes filmed along the coast south of Carmel, including Point Lobos.
Janet Gaynor & Warner Baxter
Harry Lachman and Fox Films
Musical remake tailored to Miss Davies with songs written especially for her; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, Carmel Highlands or Pebble Beach.
Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, & J. Farrell MacDonald
Robert Z. Leonard Films
One of at least five films of the same name; Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school; Scenes shot in the Cypress Grove area of Point Lobos; Bob Moss, who used to live in Salinas and who moved to Hayward, as a kid was an extra in the film, one of many orphans in the picture.
Janet Gaynor, & Warren Baxter
Alfred Santell Films
From the Alexander Dumas novel, “The Man in the Iron Mask,” a sequel to “The Three Musketeers;” Classic Swashbuckler about the Aging Heroes D’Artagnan and The Three Musketeers battling to save the true Prince of France, who has been kidnapped and imprisoned; Fairbanks’ last great role; Last big silent costume drama of the 1920s; Has talking sequences, Sound and Musical Score; Filmed at Point Lobos.
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite DeLa Motte & Dorothy Revier
Allan Dwan, and United Artists Films
Before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown. Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Dolores Del Rio, & Roland Drew
Edwin Carewe and United Artist Films
In early California, Señora Morena (Vera Lewis) runs a large sheep ranch. Her son and heir Felipe (Roland Drew) has fallen in love with her adopted daughter Ramona (Dolores Del Rio), though she loves him only as a brother; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos; Sisters Toni and Clara Brucia, ages 5 and 6, were extras as the little children of the soldiers going off to fight; They wore little scarves over their hair and waved to their “fathers.”
Dolores Del Rio, Warner Baxter & Ronald Drew
Edwin Carewe Films
First National; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Mary Astor & Gilbert Roland
George Fitzmaurice Films
Scenes filmed at 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach and Cypress Point at Point Lobos, where a Monte Carlo set was built.
George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, & William Powell
Howard Hawks and Fox Films
Considered Von Stroheim’s most vivid lavish productions; Billed as the first million dollar movie; A risque film in those days; Story about a fake count in Monte Carlo who seduces and blackmails a rich women; Scenes filmed along the 12-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos, featuring a large Monte Carlo set, four stories high, at Sea Lion Point in the Point Lobos State Reserve; 500 extras, including 350 socialites from San Francisco and Monterey County, among them Charles Crocker, Betty Folger, Howard and Rudolph Sprechels, George Newhall, Elyse Hopkins, Joseph Tobin, M.H. Deyoung and S.F.B. Morse.
Mae Busch
Eric Von Strohrim and Universal Films
Silent film in which Chaney plays a Chinese laundryman; Scenes filmed at Whalers’ Cove at Point Lobos, on Ocean Avenue in Carmel (including one scene with wandering musician) and in Monterey at Fisherman’s Wharf and the 500 block of Larkin Street; The Larkin Street shots were night scenes and people in the neighborhood sat on the bank of vacant lot across the street and watched for several evenings; Huge Klieg Lights in front windows nearby homes were set up to illuminate the street; The film crew promised to pay residents for the inconvenience but never did; a large Chinese junk was built for the film and Launched off the Point Lobos canning Co.’s Wharf ; Members of the Monterey Civic Club were extras at the scene filmed at the Waterfront, which showed the arrival of a minister.
Lon Chaney, Harrison Ford & Margguerite Dela Motte
Tom Forman, and Lichtman Studios Films
Documentary about California’s fruit-growing industry made by George E. Stone; Scenes filmed at the Carmel Mission, Carmel River, elsewhere in Carmel area and at Point Lobos; The film was done against a historical background, including the arrival of father Junipero Serra who brought with him fruit trees from Spain; Monterey Fishermen were used for the roles of soldiers and priest, and real soldiers from Presidio of Monterey played the Indians.
George Stone Films
Lady Ingleby, lonely while her husband is at the front, receives news of his death owing to an inadvertent order of one of his comrades, and she retires in mourning to the Cornish coast. There she meets young Jim Airth, who saves her life on the beach. A romance develops, but when she learns that he is the man who gave the fatal order, they part. Later, she returns to the coast and decides she cannot live without him. Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Roy Stewart, Emmett King & Pauline Frederick
Henry King Films
Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos.
Mary Pickford & Fred Thomson
Frances Marion Films
A travelogue; Prisma Motion Picture Co. of New York; Scenes filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf and elsewhere on the Waterfront, on the streets of Monterey and at Point Lobos.
Prisma Motion Picture Films
Scenes filmed on the beach near the Old Cannery at Point Lobos; Filming was interrupted by a wave; The unexpected fury drenched the filmmakers, ruined the camera and caused cast and crew to cling to each other to avoid being dragged into the wild surf; The film crew returned to the spot to finish their work.
Harold Lockwood & May Allison
Fred J. Balshofer Films
Scenes were filmed at Point Lobos, along the 17-Mile Drive and at various historic sites, including the Custom House in Monterey; Also filmed were sea gills at Monterey’s Wharf No.2 and the Old Point Lobos Canning Co., which was billed as the only Abalone Cannery in the world, getting its catch from drivers who worked right near its front door in Whalers Cove.
Mutual Weekly Gaumont Film Series
An early silent movie; Shown in Monterey in November 1914; Scenes filmed at various local sites, including the Old Abalone Cannery at Point Lobos and in and around Carmel.
Myrtle Stedman & Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Bosworth Films
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