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Filming Locations

posted 17 years ago by pmac1978
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The exterior facade is located in PA. Always known as Lindenwold Castle, it has been operating as St. Mary's home for children. The courtyard scenes where Mary and Rachel write their letter, say their goodbyes at the end of each school year and where Rosalind Russell is seen placing bread on the St. Francis statue for the birds in the wee hours is actually Greystone Mansion in California. The estate has been used for everything under the sun, including Jerry Lewis' The Disorderly Orderly and the NBC remake of Dark Shadows.

[–] jac91604 16 years ago

Thannks....does anyone know if the train station at the end is in Burbank...in the 90's I took the train to work everyday in downtown LA and it looks like it could have been Burbank in the 60's.

[–] BuddyBoy1961 16 years ago

The train station in the movie (seen AFTER the bus has parked and again during the finale) is the Glendale Amtrak station in California. It looks a bit different today--they did a beautiful restoration job on the station about 7 or 8 years ago, but you can still see the same general architectural features of the building then and now. (There's a picture of this station on Wikipedia, fyi.) In the movie they placed a bunch of tall hedges beyond the visible archway to obscure the parking lot in front of the station and the neighborhood beyond. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have matched the shot that precedes the bus' arrival, where you see the bus round a bend and drive toward the train station in long shot (this building is NOT the Glendale station, but is likely a train station in the same area in Pennsylvania where they shot the school exteriors).

[–] Roadside-1 16 years ago

On my website, I illustrate (including aerial photos) exactly where and how the Pennsylvania train station bus footage was shot:

http://www.TheTroubleWithAngels.com/

[–] spike71 14 years ago

I had a chance to walk the grounds and go inside the Lindenwold Castle years ago. I'm surprised to hear that courtyard scenes were filmed in CA because the courtyard out front of the castle is identical to the one in the movie. I once wrote to June Harding and she said that the inside scenes were filmed in California (as we'd always been told) and the outside scenes were filmed in Ambler at Lindenwold. I'd never, ever question June, after all, she should know since she was there, but when I went to the 2nd floor, the woman showing us around showed us the wall paper the walls of one room and commented that years ago, a movie had been made there and the paper was painted over with blue paint. She said the paper had been restored and if you looked closely, you'd see blue paint. Sure enough, you could still see some blue paint. I just wonder if they used the inside of Lindenwold in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows.

The grounds were gorgeous. In the beginning of the movie when the bus is traveling back to the school, once on the grounds they pass an old stone gazebo. I had the chance to stand in it and it was so cool. You can definitely recognize the outside scenery. A lot of the land was sold off to build houses.

[–] BuddyBoy1961 12 years ago

Oh boy, did I make a goof! Turns out I've been wrong all these years!! The train station used in the movie (for shots on the platform of people getting on or off the train) was actually the now-closed Monrovia, California train station, formerly a stop on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe line. Though the Glendale Amtrak station (still open) bears an uncanny resemblance, the simplest Google image search will show that the now-shuttered Monrovia station appears virtually the same now as when it was used in the film (however, the terra cotta tiles on the roof are now gone and somebody pulled up all the cobblestones on the loading platform, probably at the time the station was closed). Sorry, folks, for the misinformation all these years.

Incidentally, this station is to be torn down in 2013 or 2014 to make way for a new commuter train station on the L.A. County Metro Gold line. Sigh.

[–] BuddyBoy1961 10 years ago

Just a 2014 update about the Monrovia Amtrak Station, as seen in "The Trouble with Angels": Construction on the continuation of the Los Angeles Metro Gold Line is now in full swing in Monrovia and it appears that the old Amtrak station will NOT be torn down; it will actually be renovated and restored to its former glory, and will appear virtually as it did in the movie. Amen!