Add Reese Witherspoon and Sweet Home Alabama is a recipe for good ol’ Southern charm! Dempsey and Lucas really excelled in portraying the men who are fighting to keep what they find valuable. Patrick Dempsey and Josh Lucas play the men of interest to the main character Melanie Smooter. Shot in Georgia, Sweet Home Alabama has a great way of warming your heart and making you feel at home with its Southern charm. It filmed in locations all over Georgia including Covington, and has its own star on a paver around the downtown square. This film was directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch, Ever After, Wonder Years, and more) who took this classic story and gave it a Southern spin. It became a hit for putting to screen a story everyone loves. Sweet Home Alabama –is A hit romantic comedy from 2002 starring actress Reese Witherspoon, and actors Patrick Dempsey and Josh Lucas.
Its #MovieStarMonday and we are back with another film production that filmed some scenes here in the Hollywood of the South â. He was a Jefferson County Commissioner and is credited with helping bring the University of Alabama Medical Center to Birmingham./ Categories: Tourism, Blog Movie Star Monday: Sweet Home Alabama’s Reese Witherspoon Henry and Mattie Sweet had one son, also Henry W. The Alabama Historical Association listed it as a historic landmark in 2006. The home, which cost $10,000 to build, was used briefly in recent years as an event center. This photo shows the side facing 19th Street South.
The home has wraparound porches on the first and second stories an octagonal corner tower is nestled in one corner. The porticos are supported by fluted columns. The Arlington Avenue home was on a corner lot so it had elaborate twin entryways, one facing Arlington and another facing 19th Street South. In the end, Sweet Home was completed first but Clay’s turret was a bit taller than Sweet’s. When it was built, the three-story, 5,072-square-foot mansion was the most impressive in the city … or at least it came close.Īccording to legend, Sweet and another wealthy resident, banker Jefferson Clay, were “in a race to build the tallest house” in the shortest amount of time, Burnett wrote in his book. He married Mattie Breen Sweet and the two settled in the Jefferson County town where they became prominent residents. Sweet was born in South Carolina in 1866. Sweet, who was Bessemer’s first undertaker and a furniture dealer, according to the book “Early Bessemer” by Jason Burnett.
Sweet Home, also called the Sweet House, was built architect William E. Heather Langenkamp, who starred in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, also appears in the film. “Truth or Dare” aired in October 2017 on the Syfy network. But when they replay the game that made the house infamous, they awaken an evil spirit intent on stealing their souls.” This photo shows the cast on the steps of the home, including Cassandra Scerbo, Brytni Sarpy, Mason Dye, Harvey Guillen, Alexxis Lemire, Luck Baines, Ricardo Hoyos and Christina Masteron. The synopsis of the film says, “Eight college friends head to a ‘Haunted Rental’ for Halloween.
In 2017, crews were in Bessemer to film scenes for the TV movie, “Truth or Dare” inside the home, according to Tommy Fell with the Alabama Film Office. And these days, it draws film makers, as well. It’s a literal title on the historical marker outside, but a label applied only after the release of the famous Lynyrd Skynyrd song, which created an opportunity to draw history buffs and tourists. Sweet in 1906, is known as “Sweet Home Alabama.” The Queen Anne and Neoclassical-styled home, built for Henry W. For more than 100 years, the Sweet Home has stood at 1830 Arlington Avenue as Bessemer boomed, busted and revived around it. It stands on a corner in an isolated part of downtown Bessemer, its former grandeur evident in its double-entry façade, octagonal turret and stately columns.