Bette Davis - Three On A Match (1932) - Filming Locations
A Popular Los Angeles Park Once Again Used As Filming Location
The story for Three On A Match is based on a superstition that if three people share a match, bad things will happen to each of them.
Against this backdrop of doom and gloom is a scene filmed at the then-beautiful Hollenbeck Park in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The park has been a favorite destination for movie productions for over 100 years, serving as a filming location for dozens of movies including:
- Snub Pollard - Run 'Em Ragged (1920) - Coming here to the site in 2028
- Laurel and Hardy - Men O'War (1929)
- Charley Chase - Dollar Dizzy (1930) (Members Only)
- Doris Day - The Pajama Game (1957) - Coming here to the site in 2027
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Hollenbeck Park today retains the same layout as it did when Three On A Match filmed here in 1932, however much of the beautiful, lush foliage is missing today as is the signature arched wooden pedestrian bridge over the lake.
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Watch The Quick Preview NowCharley Chase - Crazy Like A Fox (1926) - Filming Locations
A Lost Los Angeles Neighborhood As Filming Location
Crazy Like A Fox starring Charley Chase filmed several scenes in and around the Berkeley Square neighborhood, west of Downtown LA.
In the first few decades of the 20th century, this small neighborhood was home to some of the Los Angeles area's most prominent figures, including the producer of Crazy Like A Fox - Hal Roach!
Starting in the 1930s, the neighborhood started a slow decline, and the construction of the Interstation 10 Santa Monica Freeway in 1961 resulted in the complete demolition of Berkeley Square. Fortunately, we have this film to time travel back to Berkeley Square during its peak years.
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Watch The Quick Preview NowOur Gang / The Little Rascals - Lazy Days (1929) - Filming Locations
Exploring A Historic Culver City Park
Media Park on the border of Culver City and Los Angeles has existed for over 100 years.
In Lazy Days, we get some great views of the side of the park bordering Venice Blvd and a glimpse of the Pacific Electric Railway Venice Short Line tracks that used to run right next to the park. The tracks were removed in the 1950s and Venice Blvd was then widened to take over the old right-of-way.
The park was also used as a filming location in the beginning of the 1929 Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Bouncing Babies (Members Only).
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Watch The Quick Preview NowThe Three Stooges - An Ache In Every Stake (1941) - Filming Locations
Another Famous Set Of Steps As Filming Location
The Los Angeles neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park are notable for having very steep hills and long flights of steps up those hills. Comedy movies going back as far as the 1920s used these steps as an integral part of their plots, usually involving the stars of these films having to carry a large, bulky object up the steps.
An Ache In Every Stake is The Three Stooges take on this popular plot, with Moe, Larry and Curly having to carry a large block of ice to a customer at the top of the steps.
Trivia: These are NOT the same steps that Laurel and Hardy made famous in their Academy Award-winning 1932 comedy short The Music Box. Those steps were two miles west of the An Ache In Every Stake steps which are located in a cul-de-sac of the 2200 block of Fair Oak View Terrace.
There are four other filming location then and now videos here on the site featuring long flights of steps used in comedy movies:
- Stan Laurel - The Pest (1922) (Members Only)
- The Music Box Steps BEFORE Laurel and Hardy featuring excerpts from the 1925 Charley Chase movie Isn't Life Terrible and the 1926 movie Ice Cold Cocos starring Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde (Members Only)
- Laurel and Hardy - The Music Box (1929)
- Edgar Kennedy - It's Your Move (1945)
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