This month’s Connecticut Magazine cover story highlights 20 movies filmed in our state.
Though a number — well-known and lesser — have been shot here, the story mentioned only 3: “The Stepford Wives,” “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” and “The Last House on the Left.”
“06880” has looked back at both before. (For examples, click here and here.)
But indefatigable amateur historian Fred Cantor has unearthed another interesting connection.
Next week marks the 69th anniversary of a Westport Town Crier story about the filming of “Gray Flannel Suit,” and the excitement it generated.
The October 13, 1955 piece begins:
Untold loads of washing went un-done, and hundreds of breakfast dishes languished in the sink this week, as Westport women flocked to the railroad station to double as squealing movie fans and rabid autograph hunters.
The center of attraction was Gregory Peck who came to town Tuesday in a blue worsted suit to film location shots for 20th Century Fox’s “Man in the Grey [sic] Flannel Suit,” accompanied by a crew of 150 technicians and “background people,” imported from Hollywood and New York.
The star, and the extras.
Do you remember when Hollywood came to Westport — for “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” or any other movie?
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