![]() Annie and Terry Brennan (Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery) are a couple who live by the waterfront. Without further ado, HistoryLink presents a selection of feature films made in and about Seattle:Ĭast: Marie Dressler (Annie Brennan), Wallace Beery (Terry Brennan), Robert Young (Alexander 'Alec' Brennan), Maureen O'Sullivan (Patricia Severn), Red Severn (Willard Robertson). Beginning in 1974, the annual Seattle International Film festival has attracted growing attention and attendance, and the city has long been popular with independent cineastes. On the other side of the camera, Seattleites have flocked to the city’s movie theaters since the first Edison “kinetoscope” was demonstrated here in 1894. In the 1970s, both state and city governments recognized that silver screen could pump gold into local economies and organized formal offices to promote and facilitate film and TV productions. Local actors and theater professionals also found employment. Star-struck citizens eagerly lined up for brief walk-ons, including then-Mayor Wes Uhlman, whose wallet is lifted in Harry In Your Pocket. The Space Needle has also served as a location for heroes and villains ranging from Warren Beatty in The Parallax View to Austin Powers’ nemesis, Dr. Contrary to myth, Marie Dressler’s role as the crusty Annie was not based on the real Thea Foss (who founded the Foss tugboat company on the Tacoma waterfront in the 1880s), but the historic tug Arthur Foss was used in local shooting on Lake Union.Īfter a long intermission, the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair attracted the interest of a new generation of film makers and led to such productions, memorable and otherwise, as The Slender Thread (based on Seattle’s Crisis Clinic) and It Happened At the World’s Fair (starring Elvis Presley, at the express request of then-Governor Al Rosellini ). ![]() Tugboat Annie was the first Hollywood feature to be made in and (loosely) about Seattle, although set in the imaginary port of “Secoma.” It was based on a series of short stories written by Norman Reilly Raine. The first motion pictures made in Seattle were documentary views of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the Nome Gold Rush, and the Denny Regrade. More recent made-for-television horror films such as The Night Stalker and Rose Red have taken cues from Seattle history, while the TV series Dark Angel painted an equally dark future - and we still don’t quite know how to classify Twin Peaks. Local actors and extras have also shared the spotlight with film stars including Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Walter Pidgeon, James Coburn, Warren Beatty, James Caan, Marsha Mason, Beau and Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tom Hanks, and Meg Ryan. Generations of Hollywood producers have used Seattle-area scenery and architecture as backdrops of such major releases as The Slender Thread, It Happened at the World’s Fair, The Parallax View, McQ, Cinderella Liberty, Sleepless in Seattle, The Fabulous Baker Boys, War Games, Trouble in Mind, Singles, and Little Buddha. Since the 1933 debut of Tugboat Annie, Seattle has been featured in more than 100 motion pictures and television features.
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