Favorite Movie or TV Kitchen

[westingman123]

Florence

Tom, I imagine it was because Florence's favorite quote was "...and I ain't cleaning THAT up."

Oh, how I loved the Jefferson's, even when they were Archie and Edith's neighbors. But Marla Gibbs! She GAVE IT with just the right amount of sass. Poor George never stood a chance. I think she and Minnie from "The Help" are related.

 

[hydralique]

Does Animation Count?

Because I've always wanted to have the Jetson's kitchen, complete with Rosie the Robot!

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[danemodsandy]

Mary Tyler Moore Kitchen:

Don't forget, Mary Richards actually had two kitchens during the run of The Mary Tyler Moore Show - the kitchenette in the famous attic apartment, plus the "real" kitchen in the one-bedroom highrise apartment she moved to for the last two seasons.

That kitchen had a top-freezer Amana fridge in Coppertone. Other appliances were never seen, because they were behind a breakfast bar. The range would have had to have been a drop-in, and there might - or might not - have been a dishwasher.

I always thought the Amana fridge was a great touch, because while the show was shot in L.A., it was set in Minneapolis, and an Amana would have been the top choice in the real Midwest of the time. The same thing happened on The Bob Newhart Show, set in Chicago - a TOL Amana side-by-side in Harvest took pride of place in Emily Hartley's (Suzanne Pleshette) kitchen.

I hope MTM Enterprises, producers of both shows, got Amana to provide the fridges free - Amana was never a cheap brand, and the side-by-side on the Newhart show was a particularly expensive model. Added to that was the fact that both fridges were probably trashed by the MTM prop people - it's common for fridges used on TV show and movie sets to be modified so that the light works, but nothing else does, to prevent compressor noise during filming.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ozzie and Harriet Kitchen:

I'm told there's a refrigerator in this shot.

The image is from "Rick Gets Even," an Ozzie and Harriet episode first broadcast on December 16th, 1959.

 

[mysteryclock]

I have a couple - for a retro look, the kitchen from Pleasantville

 

[rp2813]

That looks like a GE clock in the Nelson kitchen.

 

[mysteryclock]

My other favorites are ~totally~ different - the space kitchens from 2001. I don't care if the food was liquid or mushy, the designs were both futuristic yet practical for their environments.

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[tomturbomatic]

Too Funny Sandy!

If he leaned against it everything in the fresh food section would have exceeded safe temperatures and the freezer would have defrosted. Is that where they got the term "Flash Defrost"?

Sizzlin' hot to go.

 

[twintubdexter]

I certainly think Kevin's Cavalcade of Food "Cottage Kitchen" deserves honorable mention. Whether it's the GE or the Firgidaire range it always looks warm and inviting...the perfect place to enjoy a cup coffee while something wonderful is baking or roasting in the oven. I'm sure the ever-helpful Ralph, Kevin's friends and a famous guest chef or two feel the same way.

 

[kevin313]

JOE!!

You are too funny! LOL!

I never knew Julia was so well built!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Interesting Ozzie & Harriet kitchen

Post Hotpoint with gas range, Norge washer & dryer and Preway gas dishwasher. Maybe it's me, my age or the lack of HP appliances, but the show seems to have lost its magic. It only got worse (more desperate) with Ozzie's Girls.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ozzie and Harriet:

Suffered as the boys aged. They were the main draw during the late '50s/early '60s, gorgeous as hell. Rick's music didn't hurt.

As they got older and got married, they had to leave the Nelson "nest." That altered the family dynamic of the show, and it didn't help that neither of the boys' wives was all that passable as an actress. Rick's wife, Kristin Nelson, was especially histrionically-challenged, to say it with political correctness.

There was also a little bad publicity in those years; David's first wife, June Blair, was a former Playboy Playmate of the Month (Miss January, 1957), which made her pure-young-matron act on the show a bit hard to swallow, even if Playboy wasn't frontal in those days. And David - a young lawyer on the show - couldn't pass his bar exams in real life (I hasten to add that David Nelson was an extraordinarily fine human being; I had the pleasure of talking with him years ago, and he was the most thoughtful and informed of political liberals). So, a few cracks were opening up in Fantasyland.

Things have a season, and that lifespan is not necessarily connected to TV seasons.

P.S.: Kristin Nelson is actor Mark Harmon's sister. Talent ran in the family, just not in all directions.

 

[appnut]

Norge washer & gas dryer

THAT was our exact washer & gas dryer model.  Robert, that's the model I wrote you about when you put the Norge 1964 model brochure online.  These were the two units missing.  One of the last Dispenso-Mat washers.    I hated that washer, didn't agree with all the programmed buttons, particularly the wash 'n' wear durable button program.  It wasn't programmed likie a LK.   But I at least thought it was cool we had tv stars in the house.  And I personally liked the updated kitchen with gas appliances.  the Preway is fab!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

More dirt

Kristin Harmon was preggers when she and Rick married. Her father was Sheriff or Chief of Police so he and Ozzie conspired to keep the baby in the hospital for a few weeks because it was born a month "premature."

 

[danemodsandy]

Tom:

Yeah, but that was stuff they were able to keep a lid on. According to Joel Selvin's bio of Rick, with which David Nelson cooperated, all three of the Nelson men were having affairs with the young female talent appearing in guest spots on the show.

I will say this for Ozzie; he really kept his cool over the June Blair controversy. When asked about his son's interest in That Woman, he said something to the effect of, "David's interested in a girl everyone thinks is beautiful. Where's the problem?"

P.S.: I know that Ozzie's Girls was a failed attempt to revive a tired brand, but again, Ozzie should get some credit. It was one of the first shows - if not the first - to portray African-Americans living with Caucasians on an equal basis. What's not generally known is that Ozzie was a highly patriotic, but extremely liberal man, a trait he passed on to David. My conversation with David Nelson was one of the most moving experiences I've ever had; he passionately believed in this nation's potential to deliver freedom, peace and prosperity to every last one of its citizens. No matter who you were - black or white, gay or straight, whatever political persuasion or ethnicity - David Nelson wanted one thing for you: That your life be as much fun, as peaceful and as personally rewarding as the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Just because you weren't a white-bread American didn't mean you weren't entitled to everything this country has to offer.[this post was last edited: 12/16/2012-09:40]

 

[maytog77]

mine would be ......

the Bradys kitchen....

 

[maytog77]

and i love....

the brick and the indoor grill thing...=)

 

[twintubdexter]

this doesn't qualify as a "kitchen" but...

I was watching an old Jerry Lewis movie last night on my tablet..."Who's Minding the Store." The scene towards the end when the re-wired Hoover Convertible cleaner runs amuck and destroys the Appliance Department is hilarious and great fun if you pause the film and try and identify the many major and small appliances. Autowasher members could have great fun with it.

The Hoover sucked her dress off, I guess the Tappan was too heavy...

 

[danemodsandy]

Brady Kitchen - Interesting!

Those two photos of the Brady Bunch kitchen show something that happens a lot on TV shows - changes to the set. If you'll look closely, the cooktop is different in each shot - a brushed chrome one has been exchanged for a Harvest one that would "pop" a bit more on camera. Or perhaps a Harvest one that "popped" a bit too much was toned down by replacing it with brushed chrome - I don't know my Brady lore well enough to know which came first.

And the island counter itself appears to have been rebuilt. The first shot shows it in a 90-degree configuration, but the second one looks like the angle is different.

Running changes happen on sets all the time. We think the Mary Richards apartment on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was pretty much the same all those years; there were actually many small changes. In early episodes, there is only one set of steps from the entry to the sunken living room. Later, a second set, located near the walk-through closet doors, was added. And the big window was changed from double-hung to French doors. There were many more changes as well.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Hey, I never saw a harvest gold gas cook top in the Brady kitchen!!!!

What episode was it in? In face I always remember an electric w/ a griddle & electric wall oven...

Then, the first episode has a free-standing gas range peeking out through the kitchen door when Mike & the boys are discussing his new marriage he's about to embark on w/ Carol & the boys dislike 'it coming w/ GIRLS!!!!'...

-- Dave