Louisiana Movie Poster Museum
Welcome to the the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum. Since 1895 more than 3,000 movies have been made in or about Louisiana. These posters advertised a few of them. We have hundreds to add, so check back with us as we grow.
Ed and Susan Poole, renowned movie poster experts and authorities on Louisiana film history, curated this initial exhibit. It is based on the Backdrop Louisiana! exhibit that premiered in Slidell, Louisiana in January, 2020 and we’re looking forward to a post-pandemic tour. A smidgen of their knowledge can be found at Learn About Movie Posters, known worldwide as LAMP. Visit Hollywood on the Bayou for a deeper dive into Louisiana film history.
This museum is funded in part by grants from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the New Orleans Entertainment Coalition.
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This Property Is Condemned
The 1966 This Property is Condemned brought child actress Natalie Wood, future superstar, Robert Redford, and sophomore director Sidney Pollack to Louisiana and Mississippi for location shooting. Also on board were Charles Bronson, Kate Reid and Mary Badham. The screenplay was written by Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Coe and Fred Sommer and was adapted from the 1946 Tennessee Williams one act play of the same name.
The depression-era story took place in the fictional town of Dodson, Mississippi. Wood portrays the daughter of a boarding house keeper whose establishment caters to railroad men. The daughter is well known in her small Mississippi town, where she is considered the "main attraction." A young man whose job, it turns out, consists of laying off various railroad workers, including some of the boarders, moves into the boarding house. Wood falls in love with the newcomer, although her mother prefers she marry someone else.
Location filming began in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi were crews regressed the town’s 3rd Street neighborhood to 1932. The boarding house at the center of the story was, in reality, the unoccupied former home of Mayor John Scafide, purposely dilapidated by a team of carpenters and laborers. Storefronts along 3rd Street were given false facades, displaying products at their Depression-era prices. According to news reports, the company encountered hostility from local residents during its five weeks in Mississippi, noting that several blocked cameras while filming was underway. He attributed their behavior to a general dislike of Tennessee Williams, “Yankees,” and the movie industry.
Although the work environment improved when the company moved to New Orleans, one prudish resident pushed a cameraman off the sidewalk in front of her house, declaring her disapproval of Tennessee Williams’s work.
Location shooting for This Property is Condemned in New Orleans included the French Quarter and Lake Pontchartrain.
Poster: U. S. One Sheet