Favorite Movie or TV Kitchen

[appnut]

Married With Children

Yes the kitchen had coppertone Kenmore appliances--aty least the dishwasher.  Her Keyboard Lady Kenmore laundry pair were avcado I believe--right next to the kitchen in fact.

 

[e2l-arry]

I'll second on The Beverly Hillbillies

Two ovens, an 8 burner gas cook top, 2 double sinks? and those TOL Maytags just off the kitchen? Not only did they change the location of the refrigerator/freezer in the second season, they also moved to location of the 2 wall ovens. In season 1 they were at the end of the counter that had the cook top on it. By season 2 they were moved to the wall next to the pantry.

Lisa Douglas, her fried chicken secret? A bag of Dee Dee's Dehydrated Mason Dixon Chicken Dinner into a quart of boiling water for 5 minutes!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Also on GREEN ACRES:

And Lisa also had a sack of Hal's Hotcake Flour!

Funny how despite having an electric stove, that they still used the big wood burning stove (and remember how she put the electric coffee pot on one of the burners& it melted on?)...

-- Dave

 

[rpms]

I used to watch Roseanne at my friend Jill's house. Jill always thought it was the ugliest house ever on tv. It wasn't till the second or third year Roseanne was on, that Jill realized she had and still has the exact same couch. Complete with afghan on the back.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I never saw the Frigidaire washer & dryer on ROSEANNE, only the Maytag set (& remember the irony of the Connors having such an expensive though really ordinary) brand), and on MARRIED W/ CHILDREN, I thought Peg had an electric range similar to the Connor family's...

-- Dave

 

[jeffg]

Here's the Glass Bottom Boat kitchen clip. Gotta love how Doris winds up being mistaken for garbage by the floor cleaner.

 

[e2l-arry]

Grandma Walton?

Was that Ellen Corby in the middle of that scene? She was only on for a second but it sure sounded like her.

 

[appnut]

Rod Taylor!!!

 

[e2l-arry]

I know

that was Rod Taylor. He doesn't sound anything like Grandma Walton. But the lady that told him he had a phone call. That sounded like Ellen Corby.

Well, off to make din-din. I have a bag of Dee Dee's Dehydrated New England Boiled Dinner.

 

[bajaespuma]

Besides the Castorini's kitchen

I don't know if this counts, but you can probably see a couple of good reasons why this TV kitchen would be at least one of my favorites:

 

[bajaespuma]

...and then of course my second choice:

 

[techiegleek]

Glass Bottom Boat and Glee

As a techie nerd in 1966, I loved the kitchen in "Glass Bottom Boat", replete with a microwave. Also, on "Glee", the kitchen in the Hummel's home where Kurt is trying to teach his father to make a souffle.

Bruce

Techie geek and Gleek too....Kurt Hummel is my avatar!

 

[bwoods]

Joe,

I believe the kitchen pic of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, that you posted, is from "Lover Come Back." It was the second of the three movies that Rock and Doris made.

The little kitchen in Pillow Talk was, nonetheless, enticing in its own way. It had neat, less than full size range hood, It did have a full size dishwasher, not bad for an apartment in 1959. Anyone know what brand it is?

Who can forget the scenes in the kitchen with frustrated Doris a hungover Thelma Ritter!

 

[112561]

Frigidaire Kitchen of Tomorrow

From "Design For Dreaming". 

 

[bwoods]

Pillow Talk Kitchen

Please excuse the poor quality snapped a quick picture off of a VHS copy. Can anyone identify the dishwasher??

 

[bwoods]

Thelma, the mini-range and refrigerator...

 

[retromania]

I can't indentify the dishwasher in the Doris Day photo, but I have the manual drip coffee maker to the right in the photo.  I bought it a Zabar's in New York in 1997.  Used a couple of times and it's been in the cabinet ever since.  I think it's a cool design tho.   That cook pot to the right, is it Dansk or Le Creuset? 

 

[danemodsandy]

Andy:

The cook pot appears to be Le Creuset; the coffeemaker is a Chemex pot, designed by Peter Schlumbohm in 1939 and first marketed in 1941-42.

There is a piece of Dansk in the shot - that's a Number 802 tray behind Thelma Ritter, designed by Jens Quistgaard. The end of the tray is just behind Thelma's right sleeve.

BTW, I am not crazy about Pillow Talk, because of its near-criminal misuse of Thelma. Ms. Ritter was one of the finest acerbic comediennes ever - having her play a stock drunk was a real comedown from the fine work she did in movies like All About Eve and A Letter to Three Wives.

 

[bwoods]

I agree Sandy. Thelma Ritter was a WONDERFUL actress. Her straight dramatic, non-acerbic, performance as the mother of the murderer, Robert Stroud in "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962) was deeply moving. Her role in "The Mating Season" (1951) made the whole movie (My personal favorite of her films.) Marilyn Monroe's last movie, "The Misfits" wouldn't have been the same without her, nor would have Alfred Hitchcock's, "Rear Window."

Of course we all remember her as the frustrated New York mother in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947).

I love her performance in Pillow Talk. It makes a delightful movie something extra special. It just shows what a wide range of talent Miss Ritter had.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Presto Rock 'n Mix Mixer in Doris Day clip

Modified, but still the mixer without the trough

 

[tomturbomatic]

The Dishwasher of Doris Day

looks like a Crosley by D&M.

 

[retromania]

Where's the Presto mixer?  Is that it located to her right almost out of view? 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Presto Mixer

It rises up out of the hole in the counter in the futuristic kitchen, not the one with Thelma Ritter and the Crosley DW.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I wonder if that yellow pan on the gas stove could be a piece of DRU cookware from Belgium. It looks to have the flared rim and more of the DRU open handle on the cover.

 

[tomturbomatic]

All I remember was that Peggy Bundy refered to the stove as

Funny that someone with that attitude would have expensive, but not necessarily great performing, Chantal cookware.

 

[twintubdexter]

In 1939's "The Women"...

Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) had a warm "country kitchen" plus what we all need, a cook to do all the dirty work. How could anyone ever tire of watching this totally wonderful film?

 

[rpms]

I believe when Peg called the stove, 'The big hot thing', Al corrected her and said,'No Peg, you are the big hot thing'.

 

[retromania]

Did I miss it or did anyone mention the I Dream of Jeannie kitchen with the aqua (Thermador?) appliances?   Also, I remember seeing an old black and white movie from the 30's or 40's.  There's a round cook station in the middle of the kitchen.  Sort of resembles a tower and it has burners all the way around.  I mean it was from looooooong time ago.   

 

[retromania]

Tom:

I caught that too that Peg Bundy was cooking in a Chantal skillet.  It's almost as though the set designers are seeing if we are paying attention.  I know a lot of the shows in the 60's used a lot of things to create viewer interest in a product.  I remember seeing an old Bewitched episode where on the counter was about every piece of Corningware Blue Cornflower I had ever seen.  Someone answer this: Why in some shows when they show the interior of the fridge are all the the labels of products turned inward?  You can tell what brand it is.  Then in other shows all the brands names are facing out in clear view.  It's almost as though at first there was some sort of infringement and then later that had been worked through. Or maybe the brands weren't sponsors of the show and the show didn't want to give them free advertising. I know some of you know the answer to that.   

 

[tomturbomatic]

Andy, I think it has something to do with product placement agreements which can be powerful forms of subliminal advertising.

Round cook station:

I don't know if anyone has ever seen the book Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts. It was published in 1963, the year of her death. In it, she describes her kitchen in Brentwood which was round, a very large diameter Art Deco masterpiece. In the kitchen, she has an O'K & M range from the 50s, I think. It replaces the original range. Her hobby was making candy and the book has fabulous recipes.

Incidentally, I read in Paul R. Williams' book Classic Hollywood Style that she was the inspiration for Olive Oyl.

http://www.tichenorandthorp.com/books/read/paul-r-williams