Fatty Arbuckle's Cafe Today
You may remember how a couple of weeks ago how we told you about Fatty Arbuckle's Plantation Cafe. Well, because we love you guys (all three of you), we drove over to Culver City and photographed this centerpiece of Culver Studios. It was also used in the background of Gone with the Wind (it was not, as some believe however, Tara). They used all the old sets on the back lot -- like King Kong's Skull Island and the sets from Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings -- burnt them in a huge fire to film the burning of Atlanta.The studio eventually became part of RKO, passing through the hands of Joseph Kennedy, DeMille, Howard Hughes, and became the home of Desilu Productions in 1956. Then it went on to Grant Tinker in the eighties, and then Sony Pictures who finally sold it to PCCP Studio City in 2004.
An unbelievable number of movies and tv programs were filmed there, including ET, Rebecca, A Star is Born, Citizen Kane, Ozzie and Harriet, I Love Lucy, Lassie and The Andy Griffith Show, not to mention Baywatch (for awhile), Mad About You, Peyton Place, and Batman.
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