According to the FDC's guide to the neighborhood, this beauty at 257 E. 19th St. was the model home featured in the sales brochure for the builders of Beverley Square East.It was also apparently featured in the 1992 movie "Malcolm X", although a recent viewing of the 3 hour and 20 minutes film (!!!) turned up no results for exterior shots. Our best guess is that Spike Lee and crew were shacked up inside filming scenes with Denzel and Angela Bassett. Anybody been around long enough to remember when this production took over our neighborhood?
Update:
The current homeowner filled us in on all the details in the comments section:
"We have been in residence at 257 East 19th Street for 13 years so missed by a few years the filming. There are two scenes in the interior of the house: when the social worker breaks up Malcolm's family after the murder of his father and sends him to a school for boys the headmistress introduces him to a dining room table of other boys. That is our dining room with the original three stained glass windows. Then the headmistress shows Malcolm to his bedroom which is under the eaves of the roof. This room we refer to as the Malcolm X room."
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Actually part of the film was was shot in my house on Rugby Road. The location was supposed to be Cambridge Mass and the scene was when X was having his hair straighten and also a meeting around a table...can't remember exactly the point of the meeting. Maybe to plan a crime or something like that. I have the location script and could probably figure it out if I can find it. It is fun to watch it and see my living room, dining room, kitchen and even the bathroom when he rinses the straightener out of his hair.
I met spike lee coming out of john's bakery on my way to the junior high school bus stop the week they were filming.
The house on East 19th was the home of Elijah Muhamad in the movie. If I remember correctly, it was the scene where Malcom visited the home of Elijah when he was realeased from jail.
There were also one or two other interior scenes shot in and a number of other homes in the area. They were substitutes for the scenes that were supposed to have taken place in both Boston and Chicago.
The Sophie's Choice house was also in BSE.
gretchen, that is really cool! were you the resident of that house when they filmed?
there are so many gorgeous houses in this area. i used to be annoyed by crews taking over entire blocks, but where else are they going to find cool houses and locations like these today?
We have been in residence at 257 East 19th Street for 13 years so missed by a few years the filming. There are two scenes in the interior of the house: when the social worker breaks up Malcolm's family after the murder of his father and sends him to a school for boys the headmistress introduces him to a dining room table of other boys. That is our dining room with the original three stained glass windows. Then the headmistress shows Malcolm to his bedroom which is under the eaves of the roof. This room we refer to as the Malcolm X room. I watched the movie again recently to see the house's 15 seconds of fame. Our 1930's kitchen was supposedly the setting for a David Letterman sketch as Dave's Mom's kitchen but I've never seen it and wouldn't know how to find a copy.
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