Martin Weir’s Mansion from “Get Shorty”

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While out and about stalking in Beverly Hills two weeks ago, Mike, from MovieShotsLA, took me on a minor detour to see the mansion where movie star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) lived in the 1995 comedy Get Shorty.  I LOVE the scene that took place at Martin’s pad, so I was beyond excited to finally be seeing it in person.

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Towards the beginning of Get Shorty, Chili Palmer (John Travolta) enlists the help of Martin’s ex-wife, Karen Flores (Rene Russo), in the hopes that she can get the actor to star in a movie Chili is producing.  Karen agrees to go to Martin’s mansion to talk to him and tells Chili that she will meet him afterwards at Abiquiu restaurant in Santa Monica (which I blogged about here).  Instead of waiting for that lunch meeting, though, Chili buys a map of the stars’ homes and shows up at Martin’s residence at the same time that Karen does.  (A man after my own heart!)  Upon arriving, he says, “I can’t believe this map is accurate.  I bought it for ten bucks from a kid sitting in a lawn chair on Sunset.”  Love, love, love!

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The mansion’s front gate was shown several times in the scene.  It was closed when we arrived, but, as you can see below, still looks very similar to how it appeared in the movie.

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The large, circular fountain-like structure that was stationed just beyond the gate in Get Shorty is no longer there, though, or was, perhaps, never there and was simply just a prop installed for the filming.  Not having the fountain certainly adds more space for cars, which seems to be a pressing need for the current homeowners, as you can see below.  Winking smile

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The home’s elaborately carved exterior is absolutely stunning – both onscreen and in person.

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In real life, the 13,913-square-foot pad, which was originally built in 1988, has eight bedrooms, nine baths and a 0.66-acre lot.  It last sold in July 2007 for $14,800,000.

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I believe that the manse’s real life interior also appeared in Get Shorty, but I was, unfortunately, unable to verify that.

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Big THANK YOU to Mike, from MovieShotsLA, for telling me about this location!  Smile

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Martin Weir’s mansion from Get Shorty is located at 1017 North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.

The Ransom Apartment

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This past December while in New York I dragged my boyfriend out to stalk Mel Gibson and Rene Russo’s Upper East Side apartment building from the 1996 movie Ransom. I found this location in fave stalking book New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide. The apartment building is very beautiful in person, with ornate stone balconies, large windows overlooking Central Park, and a green slate roof. The building just screams “wealthy”, so it is easy to see why producers chose to use it as the residence of Mel’s mega-millionaire character in the movie. I actually haven’t seen Ransom in quite a few years and I can’t remember exactly what his building looked like in the film, so I can’t say if it looks the same now as it did twelve years ago when filming took place.

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The Ransom building was built in 1917 by C.P.H. Gilbert, an extremely popular New York architect during the early 1900’s. The boutique apartment building, designed in the Francois I style, was only the second upscale apartment building to ever be constructed on Fifth Avenue . The building, although huge, consists of only 12 different apartments, one on each of the building’s twelve floors. One is currently for sale at the bargain price of $12,950,000. 🙂 You can sneak a peek inside of the building at the apartment’s real estate website. I’ve never considered myself at all voyeuristic, but I seriously can’t get enough of stuff like this. Open houses, real estate websites, vacation rental sites, etc. LOVE THEM! 🙂

Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂

Stalk It: The Ransom apartment is located at 1067 Fifth Avenue on New York’s Upper East Side. It is situated almost directly next door to the Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece the Guggenheim Museum, which is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue.