Brooklyn Heights is like Meryl Streep, beautiful in her own right, able to age gracefully, and chameleon like in her ability to take on multiple personalities. And, like Meryl, BH is highly sought after for movies. Last week I attended a fun event hosted by the Brooklyn Heights Association in honor of their 100th birthday in which a local writer/director and two producers talked about Brooklyn Heights in the movies. A large part of the fun was seeing the location for a particular scene from various movies so these blog entries will be interspersed throughout the year as I acquire photos of some of the scenes that I was shown.
One of the most famous Brooklyn Heights movies is the wonderful Moonstruck with Cher and Nicholas Cage. Many of the scenes were filmed on Cranberry Street, which is the photo at the top of this entry. One scene includes Cher returning "moonstruck" from her night at the opera walking with her stiletto heels in her hands with the Manhattan skyline in the background. If you look to the left in the middle of the photo, you can see how Cranberry Street ends right at the East River with the skyline rising like a giant backdrop. Cher strolled dreamily at the location three blocks down from where this photo is being taken. Another scene has her mother, Olympia Dukakis, engaging in a flirtation with John Mahoney. As they walk down Cranberry Street her father comes around the corner and realizes that his daughter is two-timing the entire family. The corner is in the forefront of this picture. We'll return to Cranberry Street in future blog entries. Turns out it has been very popular with producers.
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