STEEL MAGNOLIAS Filming Locations THEN & NOW | Natchitoches

[Music] [Music] is right now [Music] well good day my friends it's your old pal jordan the lion and i am excited today i have wanted to come to nakatish for quite a while today we made it happen there's a lot of history here i mean louisiana purchase history some basketball joe dumar's history the death of jim croce but what i wanted to do today is steal magnolias i thought that movie was great i thought it was hilarious when i was in high school we had to read the play and it's very well written and very very set in this era like this this area anyway and i want to go see the houses so that's what we're doing today hope you guys enjoy it days with jordan the lion it begins right now our first location would be fitting to go to melindrum and shelby's house the eatonton house which is now a bed and breakfast i had contacted them to try and stay here and then because i had jaw they don't allow pets and so i asked him if i could pay to tour the inside and show you guys a little bit of the inside but i didn't get a response and it doesn't look like anybody is here maybe they're not open right now because of uh this is mardi gras when i'm filming this but look at this place this is so cool for me this is where they hold shelby's wedding and we see the very beginning of the movie is right here because jerome is in the backyard trying to remove the pigeons he's up there shooting pigeons and everything so check this out when you uh when you see weezer the first time one of shirley maclean's best roles shelby and malin are coming out that door right there to come to truvies to get their hair done for the wedding and we they accidentally open the door and see weezer out here struggling with her dog because her dog's hair is now falling out because of drum it's developed in nervous condition so we see if you're out here struggling with the dog and uh she comes up here and knocks on the door and melinda and shelby had went out the back so she's screaming for drum and drum opens the door and weezer's right here fighting with her dog trying to tie her dog to the pole right here and he said she looked like hammered crap weezer the lines in this are just so well written so great and she said i have such a bone to pick with you drum eatington you are making my hair my dog's hair fall out whitey black says his hair's falling out because all this drum says weezer whitey black is a i don't even think he has opposable thumbs because you know you're just gonna have to deal with it basically he closes the door on her so she ends up just tying the dog up here and stormy inside but what's cool is if you look in through the windows you can see a little bit of our filming locations check this out the first time we see shelby is shelby coming down that staircase right there and if you look there's a table right here off to the right that's where drum puts his gun down when he goes to the bathroom and when shelby and melin are leaving malin picks up the gun and puts it in that drawer so he can't find it and then they shelby comes down the stairs again and that's when they go to open this door and see weezer kind of cool to see a little bit of the inside i mean this house is featured throughout the entire movie and the first time we see anell played by daryl hannah she's actually standing on that corner in front of that gate looking at all the festivities because all the trucks are showing up to start decorating so she's standing right there on her way to truvi's for her job interview so from minell's perspective we see all the trucks and everything lining up over here and even her future boyfriend is pulling up because he's the bartender with the red truck he pulls up right there if you seen the movie a couple of times then you realize oh yeah that's him pulling in for the party at the very beginning so family that owns this isn't the eaton tins it's the tailors and they have the gates open that's kind of why i'm looking through the windows and stuff i feel like they'd be okay with it and my friend joanna cassidy used to live on this street a couple of houses down and she said she knows these people and said they're very kind wow take a look at that you can see that basketball hoop in the background of some of the shots there's the pool back there so our shot is we see drum out here shooting at the pigeons up in these trees it's pretty crazy and we see all the people coming and going from that door over there so right over here to the right of us is where the table was like it would have been like right right off camera to the right that's where they're all having the night before the surgery before they're doing the transplant melin and shelby are doing the kidney transplant and they're all making jokes about transplants making drum upset and if you went through that doorway right there and to the right that was melin's bedroom that we see her come out of and that's also the that's the way that we see drum run through when he's got to go to the bathroom when they say the coffee kicked in inside the eatonton home so there's the pool that we see actually we see weezer over here drum's got all of his gun shells and everything his blanks right there and he's loading up his gun and she grabs them all and throws her throws him in the pool he says weezer i don't want to have to kill you so cool to see this house where the wedding took place all the dancing and the tent we've been set up right here so cool i want to come back and stay here so bad because i want to show off the inside i want to show how good the pictures and everything look great of shelby's room i want to show for everybody so everybody want to come stay here historic house so cool and there's inside the kitchen we see some kitchen shots in the movie as well we gotta show the carport that's where they serve the armadillo cake weezer serving the cake to drum and gives him the butt of the armadillo so one of my other favorite scenes here at the house is at the end of the wedding weezer and clary are walking out here arm in arm and that's when the wizard says come on clary walk me home clary says but my car's parked over here you live over here just a hundred couple hundred yards what's the big deal wizard goes just walk me home you watch the news you know what can happen she's like weezer you are getting crazy the older you get the crazier you get as they're walking down here weezer says yeah well the older you get the uglier you get so weezer's house is right over here because she is the neighbor remember she's arguing with drum when she comes back here about the the shells and everything in the pool she sees some of the magnolias from the tree and she says are those my magnolias he says the judge has not decided whose tree that is yet weezer so her house was right here [Music] you never really see it but this is the house they allude to it's the lemmy house it's funny because she says the only reason people are nice to me is because i have more money than god [Music] i want to see if they actually use the uh the back garden here for that scene with clary and weezer they sure did this is the fountain you see it over weezer's shoulder they put a different bench out here of some sort and you can even see some of the houses in the background everything but uh this is after shelby's funeral and melin was out there upset and said she was so upset she was so mad she wishes she could hit something to make it feel as bad as she did and clary held weezer and said here melin hit this we'll sell shirts that say i hit weezer boudreau so weezer's pissed this is after the funeral and everything and weezer sitting out here on this bench by herself and clary sees her and comes walking up to her and goes to sit on the bench and they start shoving each other with their elbows elbowing each other like little kids and then fighting over the seat on the bench and weezer pushes clary off onto the ground and she says clary you are evil and you must be destroyed clary says come on weezer you know i love you more than my pocketbook said we needed a laugh come on you're the easiest target so that would have been right here with that in the background and the house right there in the background you can even see the the brick wall and everything as well that's a great scene here's another house that's featured briefly and annelle's walking to trudy's you can see her walking right past here so here we are at what would have been truvie's house first time we see it's when annelle is coming for her job interview and there's a truvy sign right here the beauty shop see a lot of this place this is where dolly parton lives and she runs her beauty shop out of that back room back there see this a handful of times trying to give you a couple of different scenarios one is right up here when anell is in charge of christmas decorations and she's out there with her boyfriend on the ladder putting up all the christmas decorations i mean it's just completely loaded right there oh yeah that's when sammy is she's got the music going all kinds of crazy stuff sammy turns it off because truvi's here and that's the front door they always go in belen and shelby everybody that comes here the first time goes in that front door but while they're here putting the christmas decorations shelby says miss weezer and all of a sudden you see weezer coming from over here with her dog and she says i ran into one of your friends she goes oh owen jenkins oh she goes do you remember him he remembers you of course i remember owen jenkins he had the longest nose hairs in the free world so we also see we'll go back here get a view from the side because when they're taking out the trash we that's the view we have of them bringing it out to the curb once an l is hired by truvi they bring the trash out because truvi's son gets on his motorcycle he lives up here and he gets on his motorcycle and takes off so truvia and annel are picking up the trash cans and they're walking them towards us now their backyard was also used because even though that was the beauty shop and everything truvie is very involved in the community and she's making she's coloring easter eggs for the easter hunt and she's bringing them out to load up in her car that was actually on the other side of this garage during the time of filming so they were all actually in the backyard filling up the trunk with the easter eggs when weezer comes running through the backyard screaming to melin about drum firing his gun and everything and that's when she goes up to an ellen says i know everybody in this town and i don't know you are you married and annelle has to finally confess the story of you know she doesn't know legally whether she's married or not because the guy took all of her stuff and the police are looking for him and everything so crazy story but this is also where shelby has her first diabetic fit that's the first time we see that there's something different or something that is different about her while she's getting her hair done for the wedding inside the beauty shop that's when she starts to basically convulse and melin has to go get her some juice and give her juice and they have to calm her down and everything and since the truviz sign was originally right here then we see daryl hannah walking from over there and you can see the one of the telephone poles was there at the time so what you'll notice since filming when we had a shot up the driveway right here the awnings that used to be coming off there are gone and that's a different garage the one that they had was a single window up top it was it was just different and i thought it was different too because i'm going how would they have gotten the car behind this like up through there behind it the way they have the car for the easter eggs when they're loading the easter eggs so that's why our next location is the only one not really in town it's about 20 to 25 minutes outside of town we're going to st augustine's church so here we have st augustine church this was the church of shelby and jackson's wedding we don't ever see the outside like this let me show you how we see it you do get a shot like this when it's time for the wedding drum has shot those crossbows up into the tree and let off the fireworks so he can't hear anything so shelby comes out here and he's standing right out here and she goes daddy it's time he turns on he goes it's time so they come walking in towards us to start the wedding so these are the doors that we came in from and i was surprised there was another set of doors originally right here that clary opens but we see her tell shelby it's time you see that staircase right there and then shelby of course walks out and gets her dad like i just showed you so they come walking in and the doors maybe they were made for the movie the doors open and you see this room although different because of course shelby has used her signature colors blush and bashful pink and pink and has a pink carpet going straight up the center made especially for her so we see them walking down the aisle towards us like this and what's kind of funny is that as they're walking drum looks over in a booth over here and sees weezer and growls at her so this is where the wedding takes place it looks like in the movie they added a couple of extra steps up here and of course like i said the whole back was draped in pink and the pink carpet and everything so she comes up here and meets jackson at the front and the preacher says who gives this woman to be wed her mother and i do and they get married and you do see that staircase right there they would have had like the wall basically in between the two staircases going across with that other set of doors but when shelby's walking in you can still see that staircase right there pretty cool to see this now this one i don't remember from the movie they mention it but you never see it so either it was in the deleted scenes or you know they filmed it and didn't show it in the movie because this city actually has a map of all the steel magnolias locations that's how i was able to find so many of these this is supposed to be ruth roblin's boarding house where annel is staying even though she's married and you know we eventually find out why she's staying here but yeah i remember trudy says at that one part that ruth robelin has like the worst luck ever and says you know she lost her husband and her son she goes when it comes to bad luck i mean she's right up there with elizabeth taylor so this house is the house that annel and sammy get together we see anil missing church she's running late for church so she's running out here freaking out and that's when dolly is picking her up and says you can go to my church it doesn't matter which church you go to as long as you go to one see annel running out here this is also where she finds sammy has a beer in her fridge and she dumps it out and says she won't have alcohol in her house but when dolly picks her up dolly's parked right here and you can see that school on the other side so there's anil and sammy's house here's our next location unfortunately it's all locked up and there's nobody in the office there's nobody here to try and get in i was hoping you know sometimes with churches they leave the doors open during the day for people to come and worship but not this one this is trinity episcopal church and in the movie this was you know inel over sleeps and is late for church and so trudy says you know just go with me god doesn't care which church you go as long as you show up so truvia and annel are sitting in the seats here and then clary comes in and sits next to him and then all of a sudden they notice weezer walking down the aisle and they're like what is weezer doing here and then you also notice that owen jenkins her old friend that shelby has opened the can of worms from is in the choir he's walking down a choir robe so we figure out that weezer is coming to this church to see owen and as she walks down the aisle she even winks at him pretty funny because you really it's you know that is what really changes weezer throughout this movie she's just like such a grump like she says she's been in a bad mood for 40 years and uh when shelby runs in owen jenkins in her town and she fixes them up then all of a sudden weezer's in a better mood but it happens here so now we're over at the super one foods for one brief scene back in the meat section pretty funny one though so here we have the meat section this is when we have weezer and clary walking through doing some grocery shopping here weezer says i shouldn't have said that i shouldn't have said that in front of shelby you know what i said about i'll be better off when my body gives out i didn't mean it clearly says don't worry about a weezer nobody pays attention to anything you say weezer says well i still shouldn't have said it [Music] even though we never see the front of the house in the movie this was shelby and jackson's house we only ever see the backyard when shelby starts to feel ill she's got jackson dressed up in his halloween costume and she goes to inside to make a call trying to call jackson because she's gonna have one of her fainting spells or whatever from her circulatory system and when jackson comes home he hears jack jr crying and everything that he finds shelby laying on the steps going out to the back so sad sad moment of course she ends up in the hospital and then they have to sign off on pulling her plug for life support that's when she passes away so we see a close-up over here after shelby passes away melin goes out to the waiting room and says where's jackson jack jr jackson says with aunt fern so we see aunt fern come walking out here holding jack jr and melin has been crying the whole way out here of course so when she gets out here she's parked right here and you can actually see that house right over there behind her and then little jackson jr comes running up the walkway here into melin's arms right here on the sidewalk and then over her shoulder when they're getting ready to leave you can see the church right over there that is definitely a sadder moment of the movie because you can't help but realize that shelby's gone because jack jr is here she wouldn't have had jack jr she probably would have lived and so now melin's life will carry on through jack jr with shelby so the cemetery that they used for the movie was called american cemetery and it's not even like a two minute drive away from the eatonton house crazy in reality could you imagine living two minutes away from where your child was buried oldest cemetery in louisiana purchase see if we can find where they buried shelby luckily there are a lot of headstones because they film quite a bit there that you can match up to find it well it's not too often that a cemetery actually memorializes a movie but they did i had found that cross that i was looking for as one of our markers but they put one here you can see it says steel magnolias it was on this location that the movie steel magnolias filmed shelby's julia roberts funeral it was this scene that prompted the phrase laughter through tears which was used to describe the movie sally field dolly parton olympia dukakis shirley maclaine and daryl hannah were all in this scene in august of 1988 the american cemetery association offered the use of the cemetery to try star pictures at no charge for legal reasons the property had to be leased accordingly the american cemetery was leased to tristar pictures for a dollar and the lease check was never cashed nakatish native robert bobby harling wrote steel magnolias so here it was the running theme through the movie is shelby's health when shelby's getting married she almost doesn't get married because she can't have a baby and then we find out later well the doctor actually said you shouldn't have a baby and her and jackson end up getting pregnant anyway putting a lot of stress on her body she has a circulatory system issue where she produces too much insulin and she's diabetic and all the stress of having baby ends up taking its toll and killing her so we have that scene right here where milin is having a hard time accepting it burying her young daughter and all of her friends as i mentioned all the friends that we see in the movie are out here trying to console her they all at one different time or another you see this gate over here clary and weezer are over here at this gate and they look back here to us and see melin in mourning at this site so they all kind of converge back here to console her and melinda's crying and she's saying i can't believe my shelby's gone you know what am i gonna do my poor little girl she couldn't i could run to texas and back and she never could now she's gone and daryl hannah steps in and says we have to look at the bright side miss melin now she will always be beautiful she will always be young she will be with her king and malin gets upset and sorry says i'm sorry you'll have to forgive me if i'm not happy about that i'd rather her be here with me you see sally field malin standing next to this and she gets very upset and then says i just can't do it i can't handle it i just want to hit something so bad hit something so bad till it hurts and feels the way i do and she's standing next to this tree you can see that crack and everything is still there and right then we have this great moment where olympia dukakis playing clary grabs weezer and as they're right over here she says come on melin you want to hit something hit this and weezer says clary are you high she goes come on melin knock her lights out we'll sell shirts that say i knocked out weezer boudreau so weezer gets upset and actually in that scene you can see that cross in between clary and and weezer when they're fighting so weezer gets mad and storms off and they all start laughing it was the tension breaker that they all needed but you can like i said match up this tree her funeral obviously was right there such a sad part of the movie and you can match up that and some of this in the background so right towards the end of the movie the day of the easter egg hunt spud takes trophy for a ride and pulls up here tells her to uncover her eyes and she screams out i'm a chain it's truvie's two her second location was right here you can see same glass doors and everything and those two posts right there are in the shot when they show it briefly so now we're at the bo jardine park for easter now this is pretty funny because this is the easter egg hunt all the kids have been out hunting easter eggs and afterward everybody's kind of like hanging around here and clary decides to tell jackson junior story about the evil mean wicked weasel so they're over there she's telling this story and meanwhile you know arnelle is out here with sammy and arnell's pregnant sammy is gonna be the easter bunny today so he's dressed up like an easter bunny and we have everybody out here melin's out here we have drum over here he sees owen jenkins and weezer walking around and even barks it rhett the dog ah so it's a great scene so after clary and jack jr are done with her story she tells him now why don't you go over there and wait for the easter bunny and as she comes over here popping out from behind the tree over there is weezer so weezer comes around and says hi jack you got a kiss for your old pal weezer and he slaps her in the face and jack jr comes running in a horror away from weezer and we see this park wasn't like this at the time it was more you know grass and it didn't have all the the gates and everything but we see jack jr run off into the arms of malin sally field and then all of a sudden arnelle goes into labor and they all start freaking out oh my god she's in labor she's in labor get out of the hospital so truvy's husband's truck is down here they get spud to come down here and spud loads up the pregnant arnel and they end up driving out through here this town definitely respects its history so it's really cool to see all these old trees still here and that building i'm not sure what that is but you see it in the background of the shots especially with like drum when weezer's talking to drum but the vehicle actually would have driven right out through here [Applause] so you get the overhead shot from above us seeing the truck going up this ramp then making the left going all the way down there and then the bridge that's right there they cross over to end the movie and you see truvi's son on his motorcycle who really has helped no one through the whole movie done anything louis he yells come on sammy move your tail feathers so sammy hops on the back dressed as the easter bunny and they follow the truck right behind it all the way and we see them crossing over there crossing the bridge on the way to the hospital have a baby have little shelby they told milin if it's a girl they're gonna name it shelby and then trevi says what if it's a boy she said well i guess shelby then circle of life so from over here where the ramp is that they took off the easter egg hunt was right over here on this hill yeah they just hit the easter eggs up and down this hill and got tight shots of them finding the eggs [Music] [Music] is [Music]

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Length: 33min 33sec (2013 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 17 2022