Last weekend, thanks to fellow stalker Chas, I was able to stalk a location I’ve been on the lookout for for quite some time – Drew Barrymore’s childhood home from fave romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. Chas is quite the master stalker, so last week I enlisted his help in finding this location and, lo and behold, he unearthed it pretty much immediately! Thank you, Chas!!! Never Been Kissed supposedly takes place in the Chicago area, but being that 99.9% of the movie was filmed right here in L.A., Chas had an inkling that “Josie Grosie’s” childhood home was most likely located here, as well. And sure enough, he was right. 🙂
I am very happy to report that Josie’s house looks EXACTLY the same today as it did back in 1999 when Never Been Kissed was filmed. And I really could not have been more excited to be seeing it in person!
Josie’s home is featured several times throughout the movie, most notably as the location of the heartbreaking scene when she gets egged on prom night by her high school crush, Billy. Ugh, such a sad scene!
It is also the spot where Guy picks up Josie for her second prom experience – one that turns out to be much better than her first. 🙂
Amazingly enough, Chas also managed to track down the home Josie lived in as an adult in the movie, which, ironically, can actually be found in Chicago. I find it incredibly strange that the producers would go all the way to the Windy City to film a few establishing shots of the home along with one very brief scene between Drew Barrymore and David Arquette that takes place in front of the home, when pretty much every other scene in the movie was filmed in Los Angeles. But, according to Chas, whenever filmmakers want to establish that a movie is taking place in Chicago, they film at a location near an ‘L’ Train. Which is exactly what they did in Never Been Kissed. 🙂 In the movie, Drew’s home is located directly beneath a set of ‘L’ Train tracks. Chas just recently visted the Windy City and was kind enough to stop by Josie’s house to take some pictures for me. SO COOL!
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Big THANK YOU to Chas for finding these locations and sharing his pictures of Josie’s Chicago home! 🙂
Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂
Stalk It: The Never Been Kissed house is located at 368 North Ridgewood Place in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. The home Josie lives in as an adult is located at 930 West Newport Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
Oh yay! Lindsay, you are so awesome for finding all these Drew locations. I have so much stalking to do next time I’m in LA! 😀
(sidenote, I own the 80s prom dress, complete with the egg stains, haha)
This is not the first time this has happened for sure!Another Chicago fav,Ferris Bueller’s Day Off did the same thing.The house they used is in Long Beach and the closing scene from the movie is also down the street in Long Beach.Other wise,the rest of the film is in Chicago.
Blues Brothers is another film that did the same thing.The concert scenes were filmed at the Hollywood Paldium and the rest is in Chicago.Strange,but it happens!