News bulletin: HE’s Bobby Peru was wrong when, based on research, he stated on 5.24.25 that the Sentimental value house is known as Villa Filipstad, “a notable building in the neighborhood Filipstad in Oslo, Norway…located at Munkedamsveien 62”) …brrraaannnggg!
In fact the home is located at Thomas Heftyes gate 25 in Oslo’s hilly Frogner neighborhood. Western region, blue chip, nice view of the city.
From Margaret Talbot‘s “Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo on the Cinematic Map,” The New Yorker, 11.3.25:
“If you walk through the elegant neighborhood of Frogner, in Oslo, you may notice a house that doesn’t fit in with the understated apartment buildings and embassies nearby. It’s not that the house is ugly or run-down. Rather, it evokes a cottage from a fairy tale. Clad in dark wood with a steeply gabled roof, it has squiggles of cherry-red trim, like decorations on a birthday cake. Norwegians call such architecture dragestil, or ‘dragon style,’ a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic recalling Viking ships and wooden-stave churches.
“To Joachim Trier, the Norwegian director whose new film, Sentimental Value, is partially set at this address, the house is ‘a bit like Pippi Longstocking’s. There’s a feeling of something wild and soulful in the middle of something more mannered and polite.'”
Setting aside The Sentimental Value home, Hollywood Elsewhere’s top-five favorite movie abodes:
(a) Phillip Van Damm‘s semi-fictionalized Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home near Mount Rushmore in North by Northwest.
(b) The sprawling Connecticut ranch-style home (French doors, sycamore trees) owned by Katharine Hepburn‘s wealthy mother in Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks and his wife “Slim” built a Bel Air home based on the Bringing Up Baby house, and called it “Hog Canyon”.
(c) The side-by-side homes owned by Aurora Greenway and Garret Breedlove in Terms of Endearment, located on Locke Lane in Houston’s River Oaks neighborhood (which I actually visited in April 2006).
(d) The Spanish-flavored Double Indemnity home, which I visited a few years ago.
(e) The elegant mountainside home owned by John Robie (Cary Grant) in Alfred Hitchcock‘s To Catch A Thief (Sasha Stone, her daughter Emma and I actually visited the Saint-Jennet home just prior to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival).
HE’s second cluster of five (#6 thru #10):
(f) The Evelyn Mulray home in Chinatown, located at 1315 South El Molino Drive in Pasadena;
(f) the Leave It To Beaver-styled home in Nancy Meyers‘ Father of the Bride, which is just down the street from the Mulwray home at 843 So. El Molino;
(h) Joel Goodson‘s bordello home in Risky Business, located at 1258 Linden Avenue, in Highland Park, Illinois;
(i) Lester Townsend‘s Glen Cove mansion (brick facade, long curved driveway) in North by Northwest, known in reality as the Old Westbury Gardens (71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, New York, NY 11568);
(j) Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten‘s Shadow of a Doubt home (904 McDonald Avenue, Santa Rosa).
