Obscure movie home you wished you lived in

It was the Sheff house in Beautiful Boy, but also in Big Little Lies as well. This is very much my aesthetic over most houses appearing in films.

The house in some Meryl Streep movie with Alec Baldwin. It's Complicated, I think it was.

I’ll take Tammy Grimes’ smart NY apartment, as shown in The Boys in the Band.

The house from the Casper the Friendly Ghost movie

Manderley.

William Peterson’s house by the ocean in “manhunt”

Elizabeth Taylor’s home in “the sandpiper”

I have a long-cherished dream to live in Scotland, so my obscure picks are the coastal house from "The Winter Guest," or the Edinburgh apartment from "Shallow Grave."

The house in Malibu from "The Long Goodbye."

This lovely house on the hill behind the hotel

Not obscure but Charlotte's house in "The Help", Ingrid Bergman's apartment in "Indiscreet", Tom's cottage in "The Great Gatsby", Dickie Greenleaf's home in "The Talented Mr Ripley" and the Hardy house in the Andy Hardy series.

Barbara Bel Geddes' SF apartment.

I don't have a picture but in "leave her to heaven" the guy meets Gene Tierney in a house that is just ...I don't know. The best house ever. Anyone saw that ?

r13 I have seen it and I wanted to mention it but the OP told me I could not do that, lol.

R14 it's funny though

The penthouse in HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE or the mill house conversion in ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS.

I was always partial to Barbara Stanwyck's house in "Double Indemnity."

Original Parent Trap California Ranch

So can we say "Rosemary Woodhouse " appartment in ROSEMARY'S BABY ?

Actually, the one I want is the appartmant with the terrace and all the plants accross the Dakota in the opening sequence, see which one I mean ?

R18 I never realized before now that Hayley Mills grew up to become Kate McKinnon

Mia Farrow's and Michael Caine's Manhattan flat in Hannah and Her Sisters.

In London, the beautiful town home of the couturier Daniel Day Lewis played in his last film.

Even Mia would like to live in that flat R21

For r13

The Frank Lloyd Wright beach house in “A Summer Place” (1959). I’m actually planning a weekend in Carmel, where it’s located, and hope to get a glimpse.

The house in "Practical Magic", even though it's not real.

The house from "A Single Man." Though the narrator lives in Santa Monica Canyon, the actual house is in Glendale.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted to live in the Musters' house.

Grey Gardens AFTER the restoration. I love that movie and I love those women but I still don't understand how they were able to live in the manner they lived.

I can't remember the name of the movie, it was crap horror about a home invasion and NOT one of the biggies, but all I could think was I really want to live in that house. It went against everything I had ever heard aboit wall color in that ALL the rooms were almost the exact same shade of green. But it flowed beautifully.

It’s hard to adhere to the “obscure” part of this challenge. Anyway, also in Carmel, Clint Eastwood’s character’s house. I can’t find a good picture of the artsy/rustic/casual interior, with its goldleaf abstract art on the wall and little courtyard with the pond.

Manderly, Grey Gardens and the Munster home are not obscure. Why must this ignorance be tolerated?

In “Play Misty for Me”

Audrey Hepburn’s apartment in ‘Charade’. The before must have been lovely.

Rex Harrison/Doris Day's apartment in Midnight Lace

R30, I thought about that before I posted, but I was thinking the Musters movie, not TV show, could be considered obscure?

I loved the cosy log cabin in “all that heaven allows” with the huge picture window.

R6, I was just going to mention the house from Manhunt! I was watching it on Criterion channel. That house by the beach is amazing.

I want to live in THE TRACK OF THE CAT house. More specifically I want to share that bedroom with Tab Hunter, William Hopper and Robert Mitchum. I wouldn't even mind sharing a bed with Tab. And William. And even Bob

Sorry, also not obscure. Inspired by R36, I nominate Lana Turner’s house in “imitation of life.”

Sharon Stone's house in Basic Instinct.

There was a really lovely exterior used toward the end of "Walk Hard" where Dewey's working in the yard, just as people show up to ask him to come out of retirement. I looked it up, assuming it was some producer's yard. Turned out to be Neil Diamond's house.

My first thought was of the converted mill in All That Heaven Allows. That structure wouldn't necessarily be my choice, unless it came with a version of the character Rock Hudson played (not Hudson himself), but it makes me happy that others thought of the same.

Maybe Raf Vallone and Melina Mercouri's house on Hydra from Phaedra or the Faro Island house from Persona where Liv and Bibi duel and merge.

I just love the view from the house in the sandpiper. I’d love all that dramatic scenery of Big Sur near-by.

I’m going to think about some obscure favorites. I know there have been movies I’ve returned to, just to see the house. One that springs to mind is the one that Nancy Meyers’ daughter made, with Reese Witherspoon in it. Ah, entitled “Home Again,” appropriately enough. Very upscale westside Los Angeles. I like all of the Nancy Myers and Nancy Meyers-adjacent homes.

Hope OP isn’t too mad at us for the non- obscure selections. I will try to think of obscurities. Meanwhile I love the NY apartment in “rope”

I liked the Paris apartment in Les Cousins (1959). Terrible photo, but lots of wood and a funnel fireplace.

Grandmother Ekdahl’s house in the early family Christmas scenes of Fanny and Alexander.

Aunt Polly's House from "Pollyanna." It has been meticulously restored. I have a doctor in the neighborhood and I get coffee and park across the street. It is one of the most beautiful homes in Ca. The neighborhood is lovely and has several movie homes including the house from "Shadow of a Doubt" and "Scream". They spent 10 million on the restoration of the Mcdonald Mansion. The interior is breathtaking.

Thanks, r48. I was just thinking about prisms and the Glad Game on Sunday,

There are hilarious stories from the set of "Boom!" on the island of Sardinia--Taylor and Burton were constantly drunk, and they kept saying how much they loved Sissy Goforth's house and they wanted to buy it and live in it. The producers had to keep explaining that it was a set temporarily put up for the movie.

Apparently the director Joseph Losey was also drunk on set all the time, so it's a wonder they ever got the film completed.

It was the first British mainstream film to get away with using the word "shit," as in Sissy's now-immortal diss, "Shit on your mother!:

In fact, R13, Gene Tierney and Cornell Wilde met in the observation car on their way to New Mexico.

Lora Meredith's Connecticut country home in Imitation of Life.

There is only one.

From "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels":

Joan Crawford's Marin County summer home in Sudden Fear.

East Coast: The Tom/Nicole apartment in “Eyes Wide Shut”.

West Coast: Sharon Stone’s house in “Basic Instinct”.

Betty Davis's Nantucket (or is it Martha’s Vineyard) home in A Stolen Life.

The villa the little old grandmother of Nick's lives in in the An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant. Great views of the sea, perched up in a hillside on some lovely island.

Debenham House (fully furnished as in the movie)

I want Claudia Cardinale's house in VAGUE STELLE DELL'ORSA (with Jean Sorel naked in it as well)

Mrs. Miniver's house.

the house

Again not obscure, but I’m surprised no one has said Dickie Greenleaf's house in The Talented Mr Ripley.

I choose Mt. Rushmore’s greatest mid-century. OP can’t tell me where I want to live.

Cary Grant's mountainside villa with the Riviera view in To Catch a Thief.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s flat in Talented Mr Ripley.

I only saw the film once so I don’t remember much about it and I’ve never seen photos online.

Kate winslet 's cottage in "the holidays"

Oh, and "Meryl Streep is the best actress ever", and " Beyoncé is amazing"

Barbara Stanwyck's country house in Christmas in Connecticut.

I want to live in a volcano like Blofeld.

Nights in Rodanthe beach house.

Andie McDowell had an absurdly wonderful NYC apartment in the not great film GREEN CARD. The whole apartment is fabulous and comes with a wonderful roof deck. The 'conservatory' with the enormous skylight is even better than the roof deck. This is the apartment to have.

I wished I lived in that home

In "The Univited" (1944 movie), Ray Milland & his sister (yes, his sister) live in this beautiful gothic mansion on the Devonshire coast. Granted, the house is haunted, but I'd live there anyway

As much as you people hate Tim O'Tay, I'm sure none of you went to see CMBYN. Ergo, obscure. Here's the Perlmans' villa, nella regione Lombardia dell'italia.

Mine.

Julia Robert's NYC house in Eat Pray Love

It was wicked of the OP to ask for the house from an OBSCURE movie.

One of the highlights of my childhood was going to Disneyland and playing in their recreation of the treehouse from The Swiss Family Robinson...

At one time Mr. Blandings and I had the same dream house...

I liked the pre-war penthouse Big and Carrie buy in the SATC movie that they never get to live in. The closet remodel was ludicrous though. No way was there room for it.

How about the typical gigantic American houseboat in Sleepless in Seattle!

You gurls are picking such lovely places l feel odd saying I fancy the house from Six Feet Under…sans all the funereal stuff…but it's on too busy a main road…but I'd love to live in a great big house like that. In London I like the house in The Servant.

the last house on the left

The Spreckle's Mansion (now owned by Danielle Steele) at 2080 Washington St in Pacific Heights, San Francisco which was used for Aunt Danny's (DL-fave, Eleanor Parker) home in Eye of the Cat.

The Art Deco apartment that Olive (Jennifer Tully) lived in in Bullets Over Broadway. It must come with Venus the maid and the imported gin

@r80, triggered a memory of the Cary Grant -Sophia Loren movie "Houseboat"...

I keep thinking it was in the movie "Kiss Me Deadly", but I could be wrong. A large apartment with a kitchen open to the large circular living room below with picture windows around the entire room.

OK, I have four. First, Meryl's house in It's Complicated, then the entire fucking island where they filmed her ABBA movie, then... and this one has haunted me for 30 years. Yes: There was a penthouse apartment, in a movie called "Someone To Watch Ove Me" It starred Mimi Rogers, Tom Berenger, and Lorraine Bracco, and it was about a wealthy heiress who witnessed a murder, and she was under police guard so she could testify, and one of the cops fell in love with her. Ridley Scott directing. I cannot ever forget that apartment. And Manhattan never looked better, if you had the money. I will post my 4th one next post.

Being a Midwesterner I was always partial to houses that could fly and take out a few enemies in the process...

OK, the house from Unfaithful with Diane Lane and Richard Gere. I wanted to live there

The Lord home from "The Philadelphia Story".

This house. I love this house. If I could afford it I'd buy it.

Either of the swinging pastiche-y pads from Down With Love.

Or maybe the Jupiter 2.

I'm feeling retro.

Can’t find an image, but the house in “desert fury” looked very nice, particularly lizabeth Scott’s bedroom

The Art Nouveau mansion in Quebec City in "Some Girls". This film also features twink Patrick Dempsey doing full frontal. He had a nice tight little body.

Worth a look.

One of those cute little bungalow houses you see in every period piece set in LA in the 20s - 50s. Think the Beatty/Channing/Nicholson threesome in The Fortune, Diane Ladd's apartment in Chinatown, or Goldie Hawn's little home in Swing Shift.

Jay Sebring's (very hot) nephew lives in one of these historic cottages, and he has it fixed up beautifully. You can see it in his documentary Jay Sebring: Cutting to the Truth.

Back of the Moon, the fabulous rustic cottage in ":eave Her to heaven," is absolutely stunning.

But mine those thin walls through which your annoying jealous disabled brother-in-law can hear you having sex! Or, just solve that problem permanently by taking him swimming.

I thought this one was pretty cool... Maybe Keanu just made it seem that way *sigh*

The cabin in the woods in "The Blair Witch Project".

Downton Abbey......

The Jack Ryan house in Patriot Games

Having just seen "The Sandpiper" for the first time last week, I fell in love with the rustic oceanside cabin, inhabited by the free-thinking artist Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor). It definitely looks a but dumpy (it's supposed to), but I'd make improvements. And I certainly wouldn't fill it with junk, as it is in the film.

Watch the movie for more details.

R43 I didn't catch your post, but as you can see, I agree completely.

Tara

Not a fan of the exterior, but the interior of the beach house in The Ghost Writer is to die for.

Those big Victorian houses in many movies of the 1930s and 40s: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Since You Went Away, the Andy Hardy movies, Arsenic and Old Lace. Nothing chic or too urban, just solid and full of space.

The house up on Mulholland Drive that Matt Sterling used for both "Spring Break" and "Giant Splash Shots 2."

I liked Sharon Stone's house in Basic Instinct.

Is it the movie or the house that is obscure?

Anyway, r53 here, admitting there are more than just the "Laurence Jamison" mansion that I like! Such as:

The Gilbert NYC townhouse in "The World of Henry Orient."

The Wendice classy if small London flat in "Dial 'M' for Murder."

The chateau of Colette where The Jackal goes to hide.

Pierce Patchett's modern home in "L.A. Confidential."

Wow, a 108 posts and not a single vote for Tara?...

Doris Day's in the "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" and "On Moonlight Bay" films.

^ Well, some of us preferred the more stately 12 Oaks

Portmeirion for "the village" in "The Prisoner" --I've really never gotten over Patrick McGoohan, who I just learned was born in Astoria!

Be seeing you . . .

The Pitkin House in coastal Maine’s Cliff Island. It was the film location and setting for The Whales of August with Lilian Gish and Bette Davis.

The roller coaster house in Annie Hall.

Not really, but I loved her parents' house.

The dimly-lit, Art Deco apartment/hospital in Hotel Artemis

The apartment in “the father” seems to be in a central London location and is nice and regal looking but also small enough that it’s still homely.

The Parisian apartment in “amour” was equally nice.

Another Jodie Foster answer: The massive UES townhouse from Panic Room.

Tyrell penthouse--"Bladerunner"

[quote]Audrey Hepburn’s apartment in ‘Charade’. The before must have been lovely.

She was staying in a hotel. The Hotel St. Jacques in the Latin Quarter was used for the exterior shots.

[quote]Barbara Stanwyck's country house in Christmas in Connecticut.

That wasn't her house. It belonged to the architect who wanted to marry her.

[quote]Wow, a 108 posts and not a single vote for Tara?...

Wow, don't you know the meaning of the word "obscure"?

The concrete and glass beach house that Pierce Brosnan's character lived in in the Roman Polanski movie "The Ghost Writer."

The big house that Steve Martin's fire chief character lived in in the movie "Roxanne." I remember it had big, comfy rooms with walls lined with books.

R112, I am nuts about PMG! I'm on a collecting jag now, mostly books and whatever DVDs I can get of his works that aren't on Amazon Prime or television.

It kills me to think of him in the two major roles he refused, offered first dibs at: 007 and The Saint. Of course, we know his colleague in "Hell Drivers," Sean Connery, got the former, and Roger Moore, both roles! McGowan and Connery both turned down Gandalf and Dumbledore.

So many excellent roles he might've had: Connery's (Oscar-winning) Irish cop in "The Untouchables"; a part in the all-star "D-Day"; either lead (Connery and Michael Caine) in "The Man Who Would Be King"; etc. That is to say, many of the parts that went instead to other actors of the UK.

Patrick McGoohan could play suave (his "Danger Man" appears in a tux in a casino long before "Dr. No"), deranged, vicious, heroic, villainous, courageous, and so on.

But not a romantic lead, never a romantic lead. His bedroom eyes were as far as he would agree to go.

I wish I'd have known about Portmeirion when I went to Wales so many years ago.

Three favorites have already been mentioned: Debenham House, London — "WIngs of the Dove" (R58 mentioned as a setting in "Secret Ceremony"); Stage set of a Mayfair flat — "Dial 'M' for Murder"; Stage set Mayfair flat — "Indiscreet"

I'll add:

"Rear Window" the stage set with that fantastic rear courtyard of a sort (it seems Hitchcock had a thing for giant windows with great cityscapes beyond)

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Not "obscure" but "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" in which all of the domestic sets are either wonderful or wonderfully odd.

Waldo Lydecker's Townhouse in "Laura".

The country home where Fred MacMurray takes Barbara Stanwyck to for Christmas in "Remember the Night".

The mansion where Sheridan Whiteside must convalesce in "The Man Who Came to Dinner".

The home of Harriet and Walter Craig (1950 version) including housekeeper Mrs. Harrold.

Norman and Ethel Thayer's cottage "On Golden Pond".

Goldie Hawn's apartment in "Foul Play" (complete with Esme the snake).

And finally 22 Twain from "Murder By Death".

Ripley's Game (2002)_ great locations, including Palladio's Villa Emo as the home of John Malkovich as the main character.

I guess it's not really obscure ... but 10086 Sunset Boulevard

Two NYC locations: 3 Beekman Place in “Auntie Mame” with a glorious semi circular staircase Roz Russell came prancing down in the early scenes. Also Margo Channing‘s and tastic brownstone townhome in All About Eve. It had a fabulous living room as well as a lovely terrace outside Margo’s bedroom. The staircase was perfect for party guests sitting and exchanging clever quips about the theater.

[R 127]. I meant “tasteful” not “tastic”. What the hell is “tastic”?? Is that even a word??. God damn lousy voice auto correct

Tastic is its own jandra.

R125 I saw that recently, good movie. Different take on Ripley, I liked it (and Matt Damon's too). Found the villa rather cold, but it suited the character.

Katie Holmes' apartment in The Kennedy's: After Camelot. I wish I knew more about it.

Clint Eastwood's Carmel home in Play Misty for Me.

R131 If the "Unpopular Opinions: Film Edition" thread weren't closed, I'd post this: Katie Holmes was a PERFECT Jackie, captured all the dimensions. Far better than Natalie Portman doing her little accent and acting sad and sedated.

"Our Dancing Daughters", with DL icon Joan Crawford. I love the Art Deco movie set.

I’ll take the cabin from “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” as long as it still contains all those young, strapping, redheaded lumberjacks.

That tidy little manse in Holiday.

The apartment in Green Card . It had a greenhouse. Perfect NYC apartment.

R57, lovely indeed, but it wasn't an island. Janou's villa was in Villefranche-sur-Mer, just east of Nice.

There’s a haunted room in THE UNINVITED (1944) that I always thought was potentially pretty… even though plants mysteriously whither in it.

R19 So can we say "Rosemary Woodhouse " appartment in ROSEMARY'S BABY ?

YES!

The house in A Christmas Story, complete with leg lamp (my major award).

In “Sense & Sensibility” (1995) the sisters are reduced to living in a “modest” cottage in Devonshire, and I thought, [italic]”Quit yer whinin!”

The house Julia Roberts escaped from in Sleeping With the Enemy

Those "poors" in movies like SandS or Little Women are eye-rolling. They always have charming little house and a servant.

I've always been interested in large homes. The home used in The Haunting (1963) was most interesting, though I'd have someone fix the spiral staircase before I moved in. The exterior is okay (now Ettington Park Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire), but the interior was the real star.

Flint's Manhattan apartment in "Our Man Flint" and "In Like Flint."

Stimhouse House in Los Angeles, featured in horror/comedy "House II"

*Stimson

The sorority house where Sarah Michelle Gellar gets killed in "Scream 2".

All the houses in the "Scream" series are pretty nice.

All those lovely mid century modern West Village apartments in Bell, Book and Candle.

Someone beat me to Mame's Beekman Place place. That staircase was famous and was used in like 20 films. You can google it.

The Italian villa where Timothee Chalamet lived in in Call Me By Your Name.

Only 14, r151. But you're right, it was built as a stand alone piece of set and used over and over again, constantly redressed.

Katherine Hepburn's hillside villa in Warren Beatty's Love Affair, the remake of the 1930s original and the Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr 1950s remake An Affair to Remember. It was Hepburn's last film.

Cathleen Nesbitt's hillside Italian villa in An Affair to Remember.

The Family Stone house.

You bitches are slipping.

No love for Baby Jane's house in Hancock Park?

Not obscure but the home alone house. The house in cruel intentions/wolf James spader’s apartment in bad intentions Prof Higgins townhouse The gone with the wind house in Atlanta

Buck never would have forgotten to post 1199 Lincoln Avenue S in Highland Park (though we actually lived in Lake Forest).

Gull Cottage. And at the other end of the spectrum, Miriam’s townhouse in “The Hunger”. Minus the birds and the living dead in the attic.

Cary Grant's villa in To Catch a Thief

The Last House on the Left

R160 Yes to be honest I sometimes wish I had grown up in one of those perfect John Hughes homes. I would have been a good boy, no trouble at all.

When I was young, I loved Cliff Robertson's UES bachelor pad in "Sunday in New York," and wanted to move to NYC and get a loft apartment just like it. It had a bar, den/study area, bedroom area, and spacious living room.

I don’t know any obscure movies, so guess I can’t play

The Venice pensione where Katharine Hepburn spent her summer vacation.

r40 r55 Yes!

"Dragonwyck".

"The Enchanted Cottage".

I love the house in Winona Ryder’s Little Women.

"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", house on the sea.

Howards End

Kim Novak's shop/apartment in Bell, Book, and Candle .

Johnny Depp's cabin in "Secret Window"

Via Margutta 51, Rome (Joe Bradley's apartment in Roman Holiday).

R31 The Munsters house is actually the Hiram Maxim house, originally built on a soundstage for the 1946 movie "So Goes My Love" - is that an obscure enough movie for you?

The house later became the home of the gay couple on "Desperate Housewives."

Oh! Oh! I have an obscure one. This film called “Last Weekend” with Patricia Clarkson. Wonderful cozy house on I think Lake Tahoe.

Well, Liv Tyler has becomes obscure, so I guess her movies have as well. I’ll take the fabulous villa from Stealing Beauty, and this AD articles covers other movie villas as well.

Speaking of, why didn’t we adopt adopt villa or palazzo instead of the harsher sounding mansion to name our big houses in the USA?

R180, We use all those terms in English, but they have different meanings. Palazzo is a fancy Italian word for a grand, imposing building, derived from Latin palatium, from which we get "palace." Villa is a country estate. Mansion is a large house, derived from Old French, and ultimately from Latin mansio, which simply means an abode or dwelling.

[quote]r171 I love the house in Winona Ryder’s "Little Women."

You can visit it! I think the replica was built in Canada, but it's almost an exact copy, inside and out, of Alcott's childhood home, Orchard House in Concord, MA (now a museum)

The Cuban Baroque "Castillo Maldito" from The Ghost Breakers (1940). Sure, there are ghosts and a zombie, but it has high ceilings and a fabulous staircase.

R166 Any movie made before 2011 is obscure to the young gaylings of DL so feel free to post away.

So much to explore on this thread. I really liked the house in Leave Her To Heaven--disappointing to know it was all sets. Same with the ranch house in The Parent Trap. No wonder they looked so perfect.

r2 I was going to say the same thing, and I want her to cook/bake for me too

The Glass House from the movie of the same name with Leelee Sobieski. The house from The Perfect Host with David Hyde Pierce, and John Wick's house.

The movie is called The Affair, obscure in that it’s Czech and doesn’t seem to have been released in the USA though made in 2019. It’s based on the book The Glass Room, but in reality is about the iconic Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic designed by Mike’s van der Rohe. It would be like living in the Barcelona Pavilion. It is a miracle at all that the house survived through history after what it endured.

Err that Mies, of course spellcheck would change it!

My sister went to a posh Catholic school in Pasadena. The nuns to make extra money would allow filming. Mel Brooks turned the mansion into the Nazi headquarters for one of his movies. My sister let me sneak in and I got to meet Mel and Anne, lovely people.

The Tudor looking country house Lucy’s family lived in in A Room With A View.

Not a movie but the Durrell house on Corfu even without electricity. The location is stunning. (The actual house is derelict and all the interior scenes were filmed on a set in England.) I’d fix the leaking roof but otherwise leave it as is.

As long was we are cheating, I’ll take Queen Sophie-Anne’s house, the real Villa Contenta in Malibu, from True Blood. I loved the narrow pool with oversized chandeliers overhead and the antique furniture with potted palms all around the room.

Oh yes, r174, see my post at r151.

Margaret White's closet.

R194: Ah, sorry. I overlooked your post at R151 about Bell, Book, and Candle. The sets are really wonderful and modern and warm. This film, together with North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, Indiscreet, Vertigo and others was an extraordinary and elegant image of a time and place, and rather beautiful too.

Rosecliff, in Newport, RI where interiors for "The Betsy" were filmed. Although they used The Elms for the exterior, which is lovely as well, Rosecliff is right on the water.

That house in "Parasite," loved it.

The Shaw/Morgan apartment from "Rope", 1948.

R109, I give you R103.

Monte's beach pad, Mildred Pierce

^ That slid into the ocean during a storm some years after the movie

The Côte d'Azur villa from "Bonjour Tristesse", 1958

Downton Abbey house.

R203, the villa overlooking the Bay of La Fossette in Le Lavandou was owned by Pierre Lazareff, founder of the now defunct newspaper [italic]France-Soir[/italic]. He and his wife Hélène were friends of Françoise Sagan, author of [italic]Bonjour Tristesse.[/italic]

I always get Françoise Sagan and François Sagat mixed up.

Any “house” and it’s surroundings in the movie Brigadoon.

It was probably while filming "Bonjour Tristesse" that David Niven decided to make the Côte d'Azur his summer home. He and wife, Hjördis, purchased a run down little villa, Lo Scoglietto, in Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat in '64, and turned it into an entertainer's dreamhouse.

Not quite (though arguably close) to obscure... more than Tara... Aurora Greenway's house from Terms of Endearment.

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Wayne Manor

Wrong link ^ but the Wayne Manor in Pasadena from the Batman TV show.

The ski cabin from The Other Side of Aspen.

William Holden's apartment in Paris When It Sizzles. Terrible movie, great apartment.

The Frederick Law Olmsted house, on an island in Maine. It was the home of the Mel Gibson character in Man Without a Face. And it can be yours for $2,495,000.

@r203, David Niven wearing hot pants, now I've seen it all

R215 Niven is in a swimsuit throughout the movie. He has surprisingly nice legs.

Why "surprisingly"?

The Martinique house of Thomas Crowne.

Obscure movie home I wished I undied in..

Casa Malaparte's interior and exterior (particularly the rooftop patio) are prominently featured in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film, Contempt (Le Mépris).[3]

Zabreskie Point

R217 Because David didn't seem as athletic as Cary and Randy.

The Machine Age Moderne house of Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" (1934).

Sandys beach house in “shoot the moon”, the family home too.

I don't understand, why would you want to live in an obscure home movie?

The apartment in Deception (1946)

The spectacular country house designed by Cedric Gibbons for When Ladies Meet (1941)

R227 That reminds me of one of my favorite sets - the Medwick Country Club from "Carefree" (1938) designed by Van Nest Polglase. While it's not a "home", I still want to live there.

The clip below starts in the club's dining room, then at 1:57 they start dancing throughout the club.

Cedric Gibbons' personal house in Santa Monica. When Diane Keaton played Amelia Earhart, this was used as her house. It's got to be one of the very first white boxes built as an LA house.

Not an obscure film… but the first movie interior I swooned over as a little gayling was in the opening scene of “Barry Lyndon.” It might have been a grotto? Anyway, there was an actual fountain in it!

It’s too busy and precious for my taste now… but I thought it was all so, SO enchanting.

Oh… you can see it here in the clip titled “First Love”. (That’s appropriate!)

I wonder what the filming location was.

Yes, R203, what a beautiful spot. I'd have liked to have been there for the same era, though.

George Cukor's house as recreated on a soundstage for the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got To Give (1962) which was never completed due to Monroe's death. The set was reused for the completed reworking of the film with Doris Day as "Move Over Darling" (1963).

When I was nine: Pippi Longstocking's house.

R233 And repainted pink in the Gene Kelly segment of What a Way to Go.

A gentleman in Denver wanted his house to resemble Shangri La...

Giuletta Massina’s beach house in “Juliet of the Spirits.”

Pity I can't find a pic because the William Holden house in the Seventh Dawn is lovely. A sprawling open air house in Malaysia surrounded by lush greenery.

And speaking of Doris Day, the set for "The Thrill Of It All" (1963). Bright and airy with traditional elements against swaths of midcentury plate glass.

^ And there's a new pool!

Morpheus’ groovy pad on Altair 4 in “Forbidden Planet”. With Robby, of course.

The Krell, R241! The Krell!

The family's coastal house in Susan Slade. I think the actual location was Pebble Beach or Monterey.

The house from the remake of When A Stranger Calls

And another

Bel Geddes had a cheerful airy modest bohemian studio high on hill in SF, in Vertigo.

I also love film noir Art Deco chinoiserie apartments in the Bay Area. For my love nest.

The Finzi-Continis had a lovely villa.

Philadelphia Story was Main Line elegant. The dog-eared old immense Queen Anne in A Summer Place. The father's ranch in the original Parent Trap.

The Howard’s End house. Gorgeous. It was for sale a little while ago.

The Sicilian villas in The Leopard. Villa Malapart in Mépris. Villa Noailles from the surrealist movies.

Elizabeth Taylor's wintry Toronto mansion in "Between Friends." You can see it at 9:30 in the link when Carol Burnett drives up.

Ludwig's Schloss Neuschwanstein if it comes with Bavarian and imported Swiss mountain boys for tableaux vivants.

Rosecliff as used in Great Gatsby

Éliane Devries plantation house in Indochine.

Any of a zillion Haussmannien bourgeois apartments in French Cinema, now the setting for modern characters (with no obvious means to live this way) who have low key chic decor and wardrobes. But at least 3 pieces en enfilade. I lived in one for 2 years and got boners the entire time just passing through the salons.

The Zeppelin in Madame Satan.

My favorite homes by Phillywhore 1-Gene Tierney's apt in Laura 2-Barbara Stanwyck apt where she get murdered in "Sorry Wrong Number"...Love the view from her bedroom 3-Vivien Leigh Roman Apt in "The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone(when she tosses the key to the street urchin off her balcony) 4-Bette Davis's Townhouse(Boston) where Charlotte Vale lives in "Now Voyager".

I think Ruth chatterton had a nice place in “female” I seem to recall an Art Deco vibe and a wonderful swimming pool.

The penthouse in Under Eighteen(1932) is to die for. At 1:15 you can see a glimpse of it.

Chris Kellar's prison cell in OZ.

Monte Beragon's Malibu Beach house in "Mildred Pierce". It was the actual home of director Michael Curtiz.

J.J. Hunsecker's (Burt Lancaster) penthouse apartment in "Sweet Smell of Success" located in the Brill Building (which is actually an office building) on 49th and Broadway. Mainly for the building itself, lobby and location.

You Americans may not heard of this quaint cottage. I would love to do my magic on Pemberly.

R33 - Hell, I'd gladly take Hepburn's flat in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in the East 60s.

Here's two: Windward House, the haunted house in "The Uninvited" (Ray Milland, Ruth Husssey, Donald Crisp - 1944) - in Cornwall, and gorgeous even in black and white. (Factoid: it was called "Cliff Edge" in the original novel by Dorothy McCardle, which is a very good read.)

Similarly, Gull Cottage, Mrs Muir's lovely seaside home in "The Ghost and Mrs Muir" (Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney - 1947), ditto.

Gull Cottage from "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"

The cute cottage in Devon with the squeaky gate& the tree branch hanging over the pathway to the front door in "RANDOM HARVEST" When Greer Garson sees Ronald Colman at the door of the cottage and yells "Smithie". That's It...game over!!

I would like every one of the homes that feature this famous movie staircase.

How about a cozy underground lair?

(Minus the cursed objects and vengeful creatures.)

The Marchmain townhome in London in the original television production.

Either house in "A Summer Place."

(R151) Read Spindrift spray from a psychic sea by Jan Bartell Bryant. It is about Jan moving into one of those in the 50s and gives you the feel of living in one although it is haunted. Real story. Same place Joel Steinburg lived in in the 70s

R271 I’m with you, Justin. Except the old Pine Island inn requires so much upkeep. Interesting contrast there, that after Ken and Sylvia got married they opted for the most modern of houses (then). I especially love the little bar. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Walker House later in his career, 1948. I love when Sylvia casually remarks, “Frank Lloyd Wright designed our house.”

R271 Sorry, ‘Dustin.’ Dictation is so spotty. It couldn’t even spell Frank Loyd Wright correctly. As my last sentence illustrates.

[quote] The Marchmain townhome in London in the original television production.

But it's not there anymore. Remember, they tore it down and replaced it with the Marchmain Towers with the penthouse at the top that Rex wanted to rent. Ghastly!

The Valley party house in Clueless.

Wayne Manor. Any of them. I'm flexible.

Geiger’s bungalow in The Big Sleep. I’ve loved round fireplaces ever since, and it looked so cozy.

The house from "The Anniversary Party" with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming (Neutra Schaarman House)

One of the courtyard garden apartments in “In a Lonely Place”.

Pensione Fiorini in "Summertime"

Whit Sterling's Tahoe home in Out of the Past. (a set) In fact, also The Godfather II Tahoe house, which is real.

For a brief time I had a lover who lived in old servants quarters on top of a 5th Ave luxury building. It had glass ceilings and was like a greenhouse and art studio. Nice place for pretty young people to fuck and feel bohemian.

I liked Soho and tribecca lofts of the 70s and early 80s. Roughly weatherproofed, cavernous, arty. You could smoke A LOT in those places and all your friends too, and never get smoked out.

The bohemian glass ceilinged rooftop apartments appeared here and there in cinema, as did those early artists lofts. "Squat Loft" was also an art direction fad in European cinema.

I also loved the 80's lux style "downtown loft" art direction. With Memphis furniture, Philippe Starck, Alessi, neon, and rubber floors.

R283 I think I saw one of those glassy lofts recently in Woody Allen’s “Alice.” Where Joe Mantegna lived.

I loved thier NYC apartment windows in Fosse/Verdon.

Speaking of obscure, the art nouveau mansion that Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer owned in The American Success Company.

Top that bitches!

William Powell's sexy but elegant bachelor loftlike apartment in Star of Midnight (1935)

Paul Newman's Montmartre apartment in "A New Kind of Love."

Carmen Maura's, Madrid flat in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown".

R289 Yes, that and the lofts in Diva and even Flashdance were at the top of my list as fun, creative places to live. Who’s wouldn’t want their own flock of ducks on a huge balcony overlooking the city!

Carfax Abbey. Granted, it needs a good cleaning. But a coat of paint hides a multitude of sins.

The Coreleone family house at Lake Tahoe from the "Godfather II"

Snow White's forest cottage, minus the dwarves.

Alternatively, the Palace floating in a sea of pink and golden clouds in the distance as Prince Charming Carrie's her off at the end.

^*Fuck this bloody dictation and autocorrect!!

. . . carries her off at the end.

The house in "Mommie Dearest".

Or the NY apartment in Mommie Dearest.

"Tear down that bitch of a bearing wall and put a window were it ought to be!"

I loved Katharine Hepburn’s apartment in the Desk Set.

What about the house in "The Party" with all the stepping stones through the inside pools?

Or the modern contraption house in Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle"?

What about the fucking ENCHANTED COTTAGE??

Jack Lemmon’s townhouse in “How To Murder Your Wife”. It’s a great bachelor pad.

Collinwood from dark shadows.

Hurd Hatfield’s London townhouse in Picture of Dorian Gray.

[quote] Katie Holmes' apartment in The Kennedy's: After Camelot. I wish I knew more about it.

And I wish you knew how apostrophes work.

Even the igloo in NANOOK OF THE NORTH would be a step up from having to sleep in the open...

Sandra's incredible home in JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, with the vine-covered stairway walls, and the treehouse with the indoor plunge pool for postcoital relaxing.

I love this

Our oochi-coochi home!

La Casa Pacifica, the "Western White House" of Richard Nixon from FROST/NIXON.

It had the most spectacular views of the ocean and was enormous. They showed Pat wandering through the gorgeous gardens doing practically nothing, and it looked like heaven.

BUMP

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Dick and Liz's house in the Smith College area. The apartment was cluttered and the characters brought bad juju to the house, but I always felt it had potential.

LA Confidential, the little bungalow house of Lynn Bracken / Kim Basinger.

Not really obscure, but Poirot's Whitehaven Mansions apartment. I didn't like all of his furniture, but I liked the apartment's bones.

Another vote for Hannah & Her Sister's, Mia Farrow's apartment. I think I just loved the whole fall / Thanksgiving vibe. So cozy.

The house on the Swiss lake in Pain et Chocolate starring Nino Manfredi. Here's the entire film on Youtube. . Great film about an Italian seasonal worker in Switzerland in the 70s. Touching. Funny.

The Brewster home in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is spectacular. The house is roughly the size of Tara, comes with a huge yard, a cemetery, a wooded lot, a view of the Brooklyn Bridge and all of lower Manhattan.

Mr. Larrabee's house in "What's Up, Doc?" is the one to own.

It's compact and attractive on the outside. But on the inside, it's enormous!

It's been decades since I've seen them, but didn't the Herbie the Love Bug movies have a really cool house? Like up on a hill at the end of a cul-de-sac with great views. And the inside was cool, too, if I'm remembering correctly.

Tom Cruise's huge Dakota apartment (with a studio apartment on the 2nd floor) in Vanilla Sky, perfectly decorated for a Gen X trust-fund bachelor.

D.O. at R304, you say that now, but people from warm countries are almost never prepared for the cold. You'd regret moving that far north.

Since a few people have already mentioned TV shows, I'll squeeze in a couple of my favorites, too: Bertie Wooster's and Hercule Poirot's London apartments.

And here's Poirot's, though the exterior is the real draw for me.

I've always wanted Babs Johnson's mobile home in the woods in "Pink Flamingos," but it burned in that arson case that led to a justified double homicide.

The modern house from Incredibles 2

The seaside contemporary villa in Nice, France, where Jason Statham's character lived before it was blown up in the first "Transporter" movie.

I wanted to live in the Flashdance loft apartment when I was a gayling.

Now, I wouldn't mind living in the house in The War Of The Roses...minus the domestic terror, please.

[quote] I’m going to think about some obscure favorites. I know there have been movies I’ve returned to, just to see the house. One that springs to mind is the one that Nancy Meyers’ daughter made, with Reese Witherspoon in it. Ah, entitled “Home Again,” appropriately enough. Very upscale westside Los Angeles. I like all of the Nancy Myers and Nancy Meyers-adjacent homes.

I loved that house.

Brian's loft, "Queer as Folk".

The "Brothers & Sisters" house in Pasadena.

The Braverman grandparents’ house in Parenthood (tv).

I third the Hannah and Her Sisters Mia apartment, and will add three other cozy 80s wallpapered favorites: the VT farmhouse Diane Keaton moved into in Baby Boom, the Charles Durning country house in Tootsie, and Meryl and Jack’s Georgetown house in Heartburn (loved that kitchen door out to the yard).

It's not obscure, but Anna Madrigal's house in the orig. 'Tales of the City' PBS mini series. I didn't read the first 328 posts to see if it was mentioned.

I need to add 'discipline floors' to the DL Corporation building.

Toss-up between Kate Hepburn's in "Bringing Up Baby" and California-twin Haley Mills's in "The Parent Trap."

R125 love that one!!

I vote for poirots apartment in the tv series. Another I adore is Irene Dunne’s peak Art Deco place in The Awful Truth. She and Cary were never better than in that movie.

I also liked Faye dunawaye’s bohemian manhattan garden apartment in 3 days of the condor for some reason. It seemed authentic and comfy, perfect place to host Robert Redford

Faye and Robert

The Dakota - it's where Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes live in Rosemary's Baby

The 60's Art Nouveau / Arts and Crafts style house from The Bliss Of Mrs. Blossom (1968)

Buck would never live in a dump.

Vivian Leigh's apartment overlooking the Spanish Steps in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Susan Hayward’s mansion in Stolen Hours. Love the library.

The apartment in Ghost.

I wanna live in the low-slung MCM gem on the ocean cliffside in "Susan Slade"!

I also want her birthday horse.

Also the house where Lana Turner moved when she made it big as an actress in "Imitation of Life"!

I want to live there AND wear that hostess outfit with the open floral flowy belted dress over the cigarette pants. I drool for that outfit.

Anything but the apartment Charlie Sheen lets Daryl Hannah decorate for him when he hits it big.

^*that is, of course, the apartment in "Wall Street".

R264 - Oh, yasssssss!

And I'd add to that either of the beautiful townhouse in the East Sixties occupied by the two enchanting girls in "The World of Henry Orient".

Meryl Streep’s home in the film One True Thing - so homey/folksy,

[quote] I wanna live in the low-slung MCM gem on the ocean cliffside in "Susan Slade"!

I also want her birthday horse.

I understand the house is still there. The exterior, anyway. The horse, not so much.

Not sure if it would count, but since it's technically one of the most used filming locations in the world, I'd live in Greystone mansion. Been there multiple times and it always astounds me at the quality and solidness of the structure and the fact that for being 46,000sqft, it's remarkably cozy and livable.