Cincinnati Opera stage hands taught Rain Man producers how to move disappearing "fly away" walls silently at WCET, Holladay said. Cruise stayed at the Cincinnatian, downtown, where his wife at the time, actress Mimi Rogers, "would come down to the kitchen in Tom's pajamas to make him breakfast," Holladay said. Vernon Manor exteriors were seen because Levinson's production offices were there.
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To the disappointment of movie fans who requested the Vernon Manor Hotel's Rain Man suite, Hoffman and Cruise filmed their hotel room scenes on a set inside local WCET-TV. Producers used some movie magic with Rain Man: "They actually had three Buick convertibles, in case something happened to one," Janet Ach said. Scenes were filmed inside and outside the front door, and in the dining room, attic and garage. Three of her four children were at home: Roger III (Chip) and twin sister Lela, 14, and Chris, 13. He was really sweet to our kids," Janet Ach said.
He took time for everyone," Sister Emerita said.Ĭruise, who was 26 at the time, was "more reserved and shy," she said.ĭirector Barry Levinson, who won an Oscar for the movie, filmed the first week at the convent before shooting at Pompilio's and, among other places, Roger and Janet Ach's large Tudor home in East Walnut Hills, Ohio. Hoffman, 51 at the time, stayed in character until filming finished, she said. Everything was closed off," recalled Sister Emerita McGann, who lives in a newer convent next door.
"We weren't allowed to go outside when they were shooting. A few old oaks still tower above the front steps and driveway. The dying and diseased trees were removed in 2008. Most of the place remains the same today – except for the driveway's pin oak canopy under which Hoffman and Cruise walked for the iconic Rain Man movie poster. Anne Convent, about 10 miles up the Ohio River from Newport. The bridge Charlie and Raymond cross leaving town is the John A Roebling Suspension Bridge, a prototype for the designer’s later Brooklyn Bridge in New York (you can see it from the window of the Dixie Terminal Building).Charlie found Raymond at the "Wallbrook" institution, which is actually the Sisters of Divine Providence's 1919 St. Built 1919 by architect Howard McClorey, it now houses a Montessori school.Ĭharlie’s father’s funeral was filmed at Evergreen Cemetery, 25 Alexandria Pike, Southgate, just south of Newport, also in Kentucky. If ‘Wallbrook’, the home where he finds brother Raymond, looks a bit religiose, with statues of the virgin in the walls, that’s because it’s St Anne’s Convent, 1000 Saint Anne Drive, Melbourne, just to the southeast of Cincinnati over the Ohio River on Route 8, Kentucky. The complex still houses shops and offices – and its elaborate marble arcade is open to the public.
After streetcars were discontinued in the 1950s, the terminal continued to be used for bus services, until 1998 when these too ceased. The Dixie Terminal Buildings were completed in 1921 as a combined streetcar terminal, stock exchange and office space for the city's business district. The ‘Cincinnati Trust’, where Charlie charms the desk clerk to divulge the whereabouts of the $3 million trust fund, is the lobby of the Dixie Terminal, 120 East Fourth Street at Walnut Street, downtown Cincinnati. On hearing of his father’s death, hard-hearted businessman Charlie Babbitt ( Tom Cruise) travels from Los Angeles, where his business operates out of the docks of San Pedro, to Cincinnati.Ĭharlie’s childhood home is the Tudor-style mansion at 2 Beech Crest Lane, off Madison Road in Cincinnati’s East Walnut Hills district, on the Ohio River’s northern shore, northeast of downtown. The Oscar-grabbing movie travelled all over the US, but was based in Cincinnati, Ohio, for four weeks, and made use of locations in Indiana and Kentucky.
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