LI houses for sale that have been featured in movies or TV
A duplex in the Lido Beach Towers complex, where CBS' "Madam Secretary" filmed an episode, is on the market for $899,000. Credit: Jump Visual Photography / Dan Jenney
The original, 1945 version of the movie “Mildred Pierce,” in which the title character, a waitress, opens a restaurant in Los Angeles during the Great Depression and turns it into a successful chain, was a true LA movie with the restaurant scenes shot at an eatery in the city’s Glendale neighborhood, which was demolished in 1984, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In the Emmy Award-winning remake, which aired on HBO in 2011, the restaurant that actress Kate Winslet’s Mildred runs is a one-bedroom, Mediterranean-style cottage on Lido Boulevard in Point Lookout. It’s currently on the market for $488,000.
The circa-1920 home is one of a few for sale that has been featured on the big or small screen.
HBO's "Mildred Pierce" shot a scene at this Point Lookout house, listed at $488,000. Credit: HBO / Andrew D. Schwartz
LIDO BEACH: Madam Secretary
The CBS series “Madam Secretary,” in which Téa Leoni plays the U.S. secretary of state, filmed an episode in an apartment at the salmon-hued oceanfront Lido Beach Towers condominium complex. The building stood in for a hotel in Havana, Cuba, where Leoni’s character is attempting to lift the trade embargo, in an episode that aired in 2015.
“The exterior of the building was a pretty good match for the Grand Havana Hotel,” says Steven Weisberg, the show’s locations manager. “Being on the ocean also helped sell the sort of island aspect.”
For the exterior shooting, the production turned the back of the building into the hotel’s front entrance, and added old cars, palm trees and a Cuban flag.
Another unit in the complex, a two-bedroom, 2 1⁄2-bathroom duplex, is on the market for $899,000 with Milky Forst of Milky Forst Properties.
‘The Money Pit’ and more
While the homes that provided a backdrop to “Mildred Pierce” and “Endless Love” are the most recent movie sets to come on the market, other homes listed for a while have also been in the spotlight.
In Lattingtown, a 12-room mansion that hit the market in 2014 for $12.5 million was the house in the 1980s Tom Hanks film “The Money Pit.” The exterior of the house was used in the Steven Spielberg-produced film, about a couple who buys an antique house that turns into a renovation disaster.
At the time of the shoot, the home was owned by Eric Ridder of the Knight-Ridder newspaper family. The current owners, Rich and Christina Makowsky, spent millions renovating the home, which is now listed for $5.9 million with Lois Kirschenbaum and Margaret Trautmann of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty.
In Sands Point, a six-bedroom home on the Long Island Sound that has been on and off the market over the last few years, and is now listed for $7.9 million, has hosted major motion picture and TV shoots, including the short-lived HBO series “Vinyl,” the USA Network’s “Royal Pains” and the Bravo TV series “Odd Mom Out,” says listing agent Nava Mitnick of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty.
