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Frank Lloyd Wright
| Frank Lloyd Wright is possibly the most famous architect of the XXth Century. He designed over 1000 structures over a career spanning five decades, and 450 were built. His influence continues in the work of his sons & grandsons, and in the Taliesin schools in Wisconsin & Arizona, as well as in university courses around the world. |  |
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Frank Lloyd Wright entry at Wikipedia
browse books by/about Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright credits at Internet Movie Database
Frank Lloyd Wright posters at AllPosters.com
Official Links
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation [est. 1940]
Frank Lloyd Wright School
Taliesin® Preservation, Inc. in Spring Green, WI
Taliesin Architects [est. 1959]
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy [est. 1989]
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust [est. 1974]
Other Links
GreatBuildings F.L.W. webpage
CM's Frank Lloyd Wright fansite
Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, IL [1889-1909]
F.L.W. 'Amazing Americans' entry at Library of Congress
1997 Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at Library of Congress
'Wright In Wisconsin' Heritage Tourism Program
Shining Brow Booksellers in Brookfield, WI
Jet Set Modern online magazine Issue #4: The All-Wright Double Issue
listed #76 on Atlantic Monthly's "100 Most Influential Americans" (12/2006)
The Buildings
list of all Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at About.com
list of all Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at Wikipedia
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed by location at Wikipedia
1901 Fricke House in Oak Park, IL
1901 Davenport House in River Forest, IL
1902 Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, IL { see video below}
1905 Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL
official Unity Temple art print from AllPosters.com
1906 Thomas P. Hardy House in Racine, WI
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Hardy House" [2006] by Mark Hertzberg Pomegranate Commns 7¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $14.96 |
1906 Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, MI
1910 Robie House in Chicago, IL
Taliesin Estate [begun 1911, rebuilt 1914 & 1925] near Spring Green, WI
1915-16 low-income housing in Southside Milwaukee, WI
1917-21 A.D. German Warehouse in Richland Center, WI
Aline M. Barnsdall 'Hollyhock' House
in Hollywood, CA [1919-23]
Friends of Hollyhock House [est. 1978] official website
official Hollyhock House / Barnsdall Art Park website
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House & Olive Hill" [1992] by Kathryn Smith, photography by Sam Nugroho Hennessey + Ingalls 9¾x9¾ pb [5/2006] for $30.36 Rizzoli Intl. hardcover [11/92] out of print/used |
1922 Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan {demolished 1968}
1923 Storer House in West Hollywood, CA
1924 Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, CA
official Ennis Brown House website
Ennis Brown House entry at Wikipedia
1926 Sowden House in Los Feliz [Los Angeles], CA
1929 Richard Lloyd Jones 'Westhope' house in Tulsa, OK
Fallingwater House in Mill Run, PA [1935]
Fallingwater House official site
MOMA art print from AllPosters.com
West PA Conservancy [est. 1932] / Fallingwater pages
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"Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann & America's Most Extraordinary House" [2003] by Franklin Toker Knopf 9½x6.3 hardcover [9/2003] for $23.80 |
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"Fallingwater, The House Tour" [2000] Directed by Stephen Robbins indep color VHS [2/2000] for $19.95 no listing at IMDb |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater" (F.L.W. At A Glance Series) [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
"Fallingwater: A Conversation with Edgar Kaufmann, Jr." [1994 video]
Directed by Kenneth Love;
video not available; meager info at IMDb
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's House On The Waterfall" documentary film [PBS 1989] Co-produced & written by Mary Rawson Home Vision color VHS [2/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House" [1986] by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.; photography by Thomas A. Heinz Abbeville Press 13½x10 hardcover [11/86] for $37.40 |
1938-39 Wingspread Conference Center in Wind Point (Racine), WI
1939 S.C. Johnson Wax Building in Racine, WI
1939 [Usonian] Rosenbaum House [expanded in 1948] in Florence, AL
official Rosenbaum House website
Rosenbaum House at Great Buildings Online
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House: The Birth & Rebirth of An American Treasure" [2006] by Barbara Kimberlin Broach Pomegranate Commns 8¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $13.57 |
1945 Arnold Friedman House "The Fir Tree" in Pecos, NM
1946 Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, WI
1950? Wm. & Mary Palmer House in Ann Arbor, MI
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House" [2007] by Grant Hildebrand, with Ann & Leonard K. Eaton Univ WA Press 10x8 pb [2/2007] for $19.80 |
1951 Wayfarers Chapel on the Palos Verdes, CA coast
1951 Benjamin Adelman House in Phoenix, AZ
1953 House on Kentuck Knob official site
1954 Harold C. Price residence in Bartlesville, OK
1956 Price Company Tower in Bartlesville, OK
official Price Company Tower website
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"Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower" [2005] by Anthony Alofsin Rizzoli Intl. pb [8/2006] out of print/rare Rizzoli Intl. 12¾x9¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $37.96 |
1957 Duncan House in Lisle, IL
1957 Marin County [CA] Civic Center
1958 Seth Peterson Cottage in Mirror Lake, WI
1959 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York City { see video below}
Guggenheim Museum page at Glass, Steel & Stone
1961 Annunciation Church in Wauwatosa, WI
1984 Pottery House adobe [designed in 1941] in Santa Fe, NM
1992 Monona Terrace Center [designed in 1959] in Madison, WI
2004 Blue Sky Mausoleum [designed in 1928] in Buffalo, NY
2005 Massaro island house [designed in 1950] in Lake Mahopac, NY
pre-construction Panama City house [designed in 1956] in Santa Rosa, CA
Auldbrass Plantation
Sherman Booth House
Bradley House
Dana House
Gilmore {aka Airplane} House in Madison, WI
Isadore Heller House
Joseph Husser House
Jacobs {Usonian} House in Madison, WI
Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY
Pearce House in Bradbury, CA
Sturgis House
Walker House in Carmel, CA
Books About The Buildings
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"Frank Lloyd Wright Revealed" [2007] by Rebecca King Chartwell Books 13x11¼ hardcover [2/2007] for $19.99 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright In Arizona" [2006] by Lawrence W. Cheek Rio Nuevo 8¼x8¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $13.22 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses" [2005] text by Alan Hess, photographs by Alan Weintraub Rizzoli 11x11 hardcover [11/2005] for $47.25 |
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"Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions For Making Small Houses Feel Big" [2003] by Diane Maddex Harry N. Abrams 9½x9¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $19.80 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses" [2002] by Thomas A. Heinz Gramercy 10¼x8¼ hardcover [5/2002] for $9.99 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Interiors" [2002] by Thomas A. Heinz Gramercy 10¼x8½ hardcover [5/2002] for $9.99 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work" [1999] by Dixie Legler, photographs by Scot Zimmerman Chronicle Books 10x10½ hardcover [9/99] for $40.00 |
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"Lost Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vanished Masterpieces" [1996] by Carla Lind S&S 9½x9¼ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks" [1993] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer & David Larkin Rizzoli hardcover [9/93] for $51.00 |
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"A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion" [1993] by William Allin Storrer detailed plans, photographs & brief histories of every structure [over 450] built by America's most widely known architect Univ of Chicago Press 11x10¾ hardcover [11/93] for $76.50 |
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"The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog" [MIT Press 1978] by William Allin Storrer Univ of Chicago Press 9x6¼ pb [10/2002] for $25.55 Univ of Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2002] for $70/90 |
browse all books by/about Frank Lloyd Wright
Books About Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Loving Frank: A Novel" [2007] by Nancy Horan Ballantine Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2007] for $14.37 Brilliance Audio ABR audio CD [8/2007] for $17.79 |
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"Death In A Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Murders" [2007] by William R. Drennan In 1914, five adults & two children close to Frank Lloyd Wright were brutally murdered and his newly built Taliesin cottage near Spring Green, Wisconsin was burned to the ground – an event given little attention in biographies of Wright. Univ WI Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $19.77 |
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"The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship" [2006] by Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman Harper Perennial 9¼x6 pb [10/2007] for $12.89 Regan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2006] for $23.07 |
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"The Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, The F.B.I. & Hollywood" [2005] by Donald Leslie Johnson Speculative examination of the possible relationships between philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82] and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, two versions of the movie "The Fountainhead", the F.B.I., and the Hollywood blacklist. McFarland & Co. 10x7¼ hardcover [1/2005] for $42.75 |
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"Reflections From The Shining Brow: My Years With Frank Lloyd Wright & Olgivanna Lazovich" [2004] by Kamal Amin Daniel & Daniel Publrs pb [10/2007] for $11.63 
Fithian Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2004] for $25.60 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright" [2004] by Ada Louise Huxtable Viking/Penguin Lives 7½x5¾ hardcover [11/2004] for $15.56 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect" [1998] by Kathryn Smith Abbeville Press 10½x9½ hardcover [3/98] for $26.60 Abbeville Press 4½x4¼ mini-hardcover [3/98] for $9.56 [sic] |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright and The Prairie" [1998] by Melanie Birk F.L.W. Home & Studio Fndtn 7½x7½ hardcover [4/98] for $13.27 |
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"Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" [1997] by Brendan Gill Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/98] for $22.00 Putnam hardcover [11/97] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect: An Illustrated Biography" [YA 1993] by Alexander O. Boulton Rizzoli Intl. 11¼x8¾ hardcover [8/93] out of print/used |
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"Shining Brow: The Opera About Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie" [1993] Music by Daron Hagen, words by Paul Muldoon Faber & Faber pb [2/93] out of print used official website • listing at Opera America music CD "Love in a Life" by Daron Hagen & Paul Kreider [2000] one song from the opera: Arsis Records audio CD [7/2000] for $17.98 |
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"Wright Style: Re-Creating The Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright" [1992] by Carla Lind Thames & Hudson 2nd edition 11½x9½ pb [10/2004] out of print/used S&S 11¾x9¾ hardcover [11/92] for $31.50 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" [1992] by Meryle Secrest Univ Chicago Press pb [5/98] for $14.28 Knopf 10x6¾ hardcover [9/92] out of print/used |
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"The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright & His Midwest Contemporaries" [1972] by H. Allen Brooks W.W. Norton pb [3/2006] for $19.00 W.W. Norton 8½x8½ pb [6/96] out of print/used Univ of Toronto Press hardcover [10/72] out of print/used |
"Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words" [1966]
by Olgivanna L. Wright
Horizon Press hardcover [6/66] out of print/used
"Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright" [1960]
by Olgivanna L. Wright
Horizon Press hardcover/pb [6/79] out of print/used
Books By Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The House Beautiful" [1896 & 1996] Essay by William C. Gannett; book design by Frank Lloyd Wright; restoration by John Arthur Pomegranate 11x9¼ hardcover [4/96] out of print/used |
"Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol 1: 1894-1930" [1992]
Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Rizzoli pb [6/92] out of print/used
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"Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol 2: Including An Autobiography, 1930-1932" [1992] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 pb [6/92] for $40.00 Rizzoli 10½x8½ hardcover [6/92] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol 3: 1931-1939" [1994] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli pb [12/94] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol 4: 1939-1949" [1994] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 bargain pb [12/94] for $12.99 Rizzoli 10¼x8½ pb [11/94] out of print/used Rizzoli hardcover [2/94] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol 5: 1949-1959" [1995] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 pb [5/95] out of print/used |
'Wright At A Glance' Book Series
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $9.95 |
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"Californian Textile Block" [2002] by Abby Moor PRC Pubnlg 8¾x5¾ hardcover [3/2004] for $5.98 Sterling 8¼x6.3 pb [10/2002] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
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"Early Years" [2002] by Doreen Ehrlich PRC hardcover [3/2004] for $13.97 PRC 8¼x6½ hardcover [5/2002] for $12.95 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Fireplaces" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's First Houses" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Furnishings" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Glass Designs" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Life & Homes" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Lost Buildings" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5½x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $11.94 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¾x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Public Buildings" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate5¼x5¼ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
Other Media
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"Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Heurtley House" [2003]
includes a record of discoveries & work during the 5-year restoration of Wright's 1902 Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, IL Emphasis color DVD [11/2004] out of prodn/used not listed at IMDb |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright" [PBS miniseries Nov 1998]
Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; narration by Edward Herrmann; won Peabody Award PBS Home Video color DVD [8/2001] for $26.98 PBS Home Video color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes for $24.98 full credits from IMDb • PBS webpages |
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"The Thirteenth Floor" [Columbia May 1999]
Location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. A stylish modern-day noir. The designer of a computer game that is set in 1930s Los Angeles discovers a secret and is killed. His coworkers are suspect, and they search inside the simulated world for clues to the real killer. Co-written & directed by Josef Rusnak; based on Daniel F. Galouye's novel "Simulacron 3"; starring Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan & Johnny Crawford Sony color DVD [10/99] for $9.95 Sony color VHS [3/2000] out of prodn/many used Milan Records soundtrack CD [6/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
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"Permanent Midnight" [Artisan Sept 1998]
Location filming at Wright's Pearce House in gated Bradbury, California. After a stint in rehab, a TV writer regales a fellow survivor with the story of his drug-frenzied meltdown in flashbacks. Written & directed by David Veloz; based on a book by Jerry Stahl; starring Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Jay Paulson, Spencer Garrett, Owen Wilson, Elizabeth Hurley, Lourdes Benedicto, Fred Willard, Connie Nielsen, Liz Torres, Janeane Garofalo, Sandra Oh, Scott Williamson, Cheryl Ladd & Jerry Stahl LionsGate color DVD [2/99] for $12.99 Live/Artisan color VHS [7/2001] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
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"The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright" [A&E special 1998] A&E color VHS [2/98] for $19.95 not listed at IMDb |
Directed by Kenneth Love; video not available; credits from IMDb
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"1071 Fifth Avenue: Frank Lloyd Wright & The Story of The Guggenheim Museum" [1994]
Directed by Peter Lydon Home Vision color VHS [12/2002] for $19.95 not listed at IMDb |
"Frank Lloyd Wright: The Office For Edgar J. Kaufmann" [1992]
Written & directed by Pamela Glintenkamp
video not available; credits from IMDb
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"Blade Runner" [Ladd Company June 1982]
Location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. Directed by Ridley Scott, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1968] by Philip K. Dick; starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh & Daryl Hannah; music by Vangelis; won Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, listed on National Film Registry in 1993; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005) Warner Final Cut Special Edition color DVD [12/2007] 2 disks for $14.49 Warner Director's Cut VHS [2/99] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 movie fansite • 'Los Angeles 2019' fansite "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" book by Paul M. Sammon HarperCollins 9¼x6 pb [7/96] for $11.20 |
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"House on Haunted Hill" [Allied Artists Feb 1959]
Extensive location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. A creepy millionaire tempts five people with $10,000 each if they can survive the night locked inside a hilltop house where seven people were murdered. Co-produced & directed by William Castle; starring Vincent Price, Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Elisha Cook Jr., Carol Ohmart, Alan Marshal, Julie Mitchum, Leona Anderson & Howard Hoffman Alpha Video b&w DVD [4/2003] for $7.98 Warner b&w widescreen DVD [10/99] for $12.99 Good Times Video b&w VHS [9/2003] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
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"A Summer Place" [Warner Bros. Oct 1956]
Extensive location filming at Wright's Walker House in Carmel, California. A story of middle-aged adultery intertwined with teenage love and adult hypocrisy about it. A self-made millionaire vacations with his wife and teenage daughter on an island off the Maine coast where he'd previously worked as a lifeguard. He resumes a romance with an island resident who is trapped in a marriage as loveless as his. Scandal erupts when word of this romance becomes public, but it serves to draw together his daughter and her teenage son. Produced, written & directed by Delmer Daves; based on the Sloan Wilson novel; starring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue, Constance Ford, Beulah Bondi, Jack Richardson & Martin Eric Warner color DVD [2/2007] for $14.99 Warner color VHS [1/93] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
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