Matt Hormann
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Matt Hormann is a Pasadena-based freelance writer. His "History Buff" column for the online magazine Hometown-Pasadena.com has proved one of the site's most well-read ongoing features, and now he is bringing his talents to San Marino Patch.com. As a writer of weekly history columns for the Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Montrose, and Arcadia Patch web sites, Matt unearths the interesting and sometimes surprising backstories of the towns we know and love.
Matt's passion for historical research is matched only by a love of film, a subject which shows up often in his articles. (Who knew, for instance, that D.W. Griffith shot some of his earliest films in Sierra Madre?)
Born in New York and raised in Pasadena, he attended the L.A. County High School for the Arts, and is a graduate of Cal State University Northridge, where he received a B.A. in English.
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Hi Hubert. I do apologize--I just saw your note now. You are absolutely right about the Rainbird mansion being in South Pas. …
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If there is, I'm certainly not aware of it. I simply found it to be an interesting story--one that probably could have …
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I don't know about authentic, but I've always thought Rudy's on Myrtle was pretty good, although in all honesty I haven't been there for several years. When my girlfriend lived in Monrovia, it was our favorite dinner spot. It doesn't seem to get … See the question
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Hubert Otte
11:20pm on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Hello Matt Hormann,
You mentioned in your comment On the article South Pas: Hollywood Backlot that a scene from Hitchcock's last film "Family Plot" was shot in South Pasadena. The imdb databases have the information that this shot was the outdoor shot of Julia Rainbird's mansion. The exact location is not mentioned.
Know you or other people from South Pasadena the exact location of the mansion in South Pasadena and exist the mansion still?
I noticed also coincidentally that the mansion of Julia Rainbird in "Family Plot" and the mansion of Oliver Brandt in the Columbo episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case" are be identical.
Yours sincerely
Hubert Otte