■ From the Movie "LIFE WITH FATHER"

■ Movie Summary

Stockbroker Clarence Day is the benevolent curmudgeon of his 1880s New York City household, striving to make it function as efficiently as his Wall Street office but usually failing. His wife Vinnie is the real head of the household. In keeping with the Day's actual family, all the children (all boys) are redheads. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as Clarence's attempts to find a new maid, a romance between his oldest son Clarence Jr. and pretty out-of-towner Mary Skinner, a plan by Clarence Jr. and his younger brother John to make easy money selling patent medicines, Clarence's general contempt for the era's political corruption, the trappings of organized religion, and Vinnie's push to get him baptized so he can enter the kingdom of God.

■ USJWalkerよりひとこと
映画「ライフ・ウィズ・ファーザー」に登場したアパートがモデルです。玄関横の丸いステンドグラスがおしゃれで、２階まで続く出窓がとても個性的です。パークアベニューは、実際のグラマシーパークそのままに、アパートが軒を連ねて建てられており、煉瓦を敷き詰めた美しい通りと相まって、人気のフォトスポットにもなっています。グラマシーパークに大がかりな屋外セットが設置されると隠れてしまうこともあるので、セットが設営されていない時期が、ここでニューヨークらしいアパート街独特の雰囲気を楽しむチャンスです。