Location Rental
Location Rental
Location Rental Fees
Special Events Policy
Filming & Photography
Special Considerations
 
 

Filming & Photography
 
Filming
The Fenyes Mansion was the first residence in the West San Gabriel Valley to encourage film production on its property. Eva Scott Fenyes welcomed film crews to her estate and took photos of the well-known actors and directors.

In 1912, D.W. Griffith became the first to use the property as a film location for his period costume drama When Kings Were the Law, starring Mabel Normand and Mae Marsh (retitled The Necklace). The property's film credits also include:
  • The Prestige (2006) -- Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale
  • The West Wing (2003, television series)
  • Newsies (1992) -- Christian Bale
  • The Mirror Crack'd (1981) -- Rock Hudson, Angela Lansbury, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor
  • Being There (1979) - Peter Sellers
  • The Immigrants (1978, made for television)
  • Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977, made-for-television)
  • A Testimony of Two Men (1977, made for television)
  • The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) - Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, Robert Harron and Syn de Conde
  • Western Blood (retitled Western Life, 1918) -- Tom Mix
  • Reggie Mixes In (1916) -- Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love
  • Renunciation (1914) -- Edna Payne
For information on filming in the Mansion and on the grounds of Pasadena Museum of History, please call 626.577.1660, ext. 17.
Photography
Advanced reservations are required for photography at Pasadena Museum of History. If you are interested in booking wedding photography and are within the three months prior to your event date, please call 626.577.1660, ext. 10 for information and reservations. Otherwise, please check back with us three months prior to your event date. No video or other moving picture equipment allowed.

Fees*

Wedding or Engagement photography: $300 for up to three hours to photograph the grounds (fee waived if wedding or reception is held on the grounds).

Please call for information and fees for non-wedding photography or filming.

*Fees subject to change without notice


 
 
470 West Walnut Street ~ Pasadena, CA 91103 ~ Ph 626.577.1660 ~ Fax 626.577.1662 ~ info@pasadenahistory.org