Brownsville’s house from ‘Maria’s Lovers’ movie to be restored
This Brownsville house was featured in the 1984 film "Maria's Lovers" starring Nastassja Kinski.
The porch of the Brownsville home that was used to the 1984 film "Maria's Lovers" has fallen into disrepair.
This room is part of a home that was used in the filming of "Maria's Lovers" in Brownsville.
Garbage now fills this room that is in a house that was used in the filming of "Maria's Lovers" in Brownsville.
This house was used in the 1984 movie "Maria's Lovers," which was filmed in Brownsville.
This Brownsville house was used in the filming of "Maria's Lovers" starring Nastassja Kinski.
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Starring Nastassja Kinski as the forsaken Maria, her house in the set has since become somewhat of a tourist attraction in Brownsville, even though it adds to the blight problem there
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The location created dramatic backgrounds as the street leads straight into the downtown and to the Monongahela River.
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The two wed, but Savage was unable to consummate the marriage because of his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Keith Carradine also appeared in the movie as did a young John Goodman.
The house is being given new life with a crew of volunteers, including members of council and the Brownsville mayor, who are working with an investor from Philadelphia, Stephen Beckman.
Beckman said he works during the week for a Canonsburg pharmaceutical company and one weekend went to Brownsville to roam around and create photographs.
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His company, Iroquois Properties, purchased the house from the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Fayette, and the team of volunteers recently removed five truckloads of garbage and debris from the property.
Bock said the house survived because its roof was sound and it still has its indoor plumbing.
She said Antiques on Broad, a store next door to the house, will help to fill it with period furnishings. Photographs taken during the filming are being digitized for the project, and a local woman who was Kinski无毛视频檚 double will be donating one of her costumes to the house, Bock said.
Beckman said he hopes to have the project completed by early next year and open it for tours and exhibits, use it for short-term rentals and make it available for special events.
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