Next time you are in Los Angeles you might want to visit the following locations
where some of your favorite movies and TV shows were filmed.

The Ambassador Hotel
LA Story, Forest Gump, Barton Fink, Sister Act, Man on the Moon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Apollo 13, That thing You Do!

Arboretum of LA County
Fantasy Island, Notorious, The Best Years of Our Lives, Wayne's World, Terminator 2

Bradley Building
 Chinatown, Blade Runner, Wolf, Murder in the First.

Greystone Mansion
Indecent Proposal, Batman and Robin, The Big Lebowski, Death Becomes Her, Rush Hour, Clueless, Ghostbusters, The Witches of Eastwick, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Bodyguard, X-Men.

Griffith Park Observatory
Rebel Without a Cause, The Terminator, The Rocketeer, Devil in a Blue Dress, Jurassic Park, Bowfinger.

Hollywood Palladium
The Blues Brothers, The Bodyguard, The Day of the  Locust, Mr. Saturday Night.

Huntington Library
Indecent Proposal, The Wedding Singer, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Great Gatsby, The Little Princess.

Los Angeles City Hall
Dragnet, The War of the Worlds, Mildred Pierce, D.O.A., Rush Hour, Godzilla (1998), Eraser.

Malibu Creek State Park
Planet of the Apes, M*A*S*H, How Green Was My Valley, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Orpheum Theatre
What's Love Got To Do With It?, The Doors, The Last Action Hero, Ed Wood.

Paradise Cove
Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party, Back To the Beach, The Rockford Files.

Regal Biltmore Hotel
The Buddy Holly Story, The Bad News Bears, Chinatown, Splash, Pretty in Pink, Brewster's Millions, Independence Day, The Rock, Fight Club.

UCLA Campus
Higher Learning, Threesome, The Sure Thing, Scream 2, The Nutty Professor.

Union Station
Union Station, The Way We Were, Nick of Time, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Venice Beach and Boardwalk
Xanadu, Falling Down, Mixed Nuts, White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire.

Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
True Lies, In the Line of Fire, Strange Days, Leathal Weapon 2, Rain Man.

Did you know:

The first full length movie ever made in Hollywood was "The Squaw Man" produced in 1913 by Jesse Lasky and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Over 7,000 hairpieces were made for the movie by Max Factor. The hairpieces were so bad it inspired Perc Westmore to invent the lace front hairpiece while working at Factors.

Norma Talmadge (1893-1957), all but forgotten by today's movie-goers was a super star in her day. History has it that she was the very first star to have her footprints placed in the wet cement outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Her prints occupy the central square right in front of the theatre doors, framed by those of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Her sister Natalie (1898-1969) was married to Buster Keaton and co-starred with him in many of his silent comedies.

In Brewster's Millions, Richard Pryor took his hoard of political followers to the five star L'Orangerie restaurant.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was staged at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.

The interior of Robert Redford's mansion in the movie Indecent Proposal was filmed at the world renowned Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens.

USC doubled for the University of Alabama in the movie Forest Gump. Director Robert Zemekis attended film school there.