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Stamford, Connecticut is increasingly being used as a filming location for motion pictures, especially since a 30 percent state tax credit for movie production took effect on July 1, 2006. The tax credit immediately started attracting filmmakers to Connecticut, creating a nascent industry connected to feature film production.[1]
Two of the more significant movies shot in Stamford before the tax credit were The Cardinal, directed by Otto Preminger and Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan.
This article lists feature films and documentaries shot entirely or in part in Stamford, in reverse chronological order of release.
The vaudeville scene with Robert ( Bobby) Morse, was filmed at the newly renovated State Theatre in Springdale. The State was originally a vaudeville house complete with an orchestra pit and the original, massive stage curtain.
Boomerang (1947), directed by Elia Kazan was based on incidents in Bridgeport, Connecticut involving Stamford resident (and mayor and later U.S. Attorney General) Homer Cummings, for whom Cummings Park and the Lockwood, Cummings law firm are named. Cummings was Attorney General of the United States in Franklin Roosevelt's administration.
Almost all of the film was shot in Stamford except for the courtroom scene (shot in White Plains, New York).[12]
"[I]t wasn't an oddity to run into Dana Andrews, one of the stars of the movie, in a local restaurant, or to see other stars on the street," according to Don Russell, a columnist for The Advocate.[12]
Stamford locations:[12]
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