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One of my faaaavorite 80's movie is Secret Admirer with C. Thomas Howell, Kelly, Preston, Lori Loughlin, Dee Wallace, and more! So I diligently researched to find as many locations as I could. It seemed like Burbank was the place where a lot of the movie was shot....
Here is the Burbank High School area, which has changed the most, so I didn't even bother putting up a pic, but here is the area where the van pulls up and they leave Lori Loughlin in the dust...
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Also in Burbank is Lori Loughlin's house... where she has the big party, tell C. Thomas to go away at her door, and of course where her parents drive off to take her to school afloat....
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Also in Burbank and not too far from Lori's house is the corner where C. Thomas Howell is running after Lori and he bumps into "Steve" where they fight and he breaks his nose...
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The party house is up in Hollywood and is best known for it's appearance during the opening of "Rebel Without A Cause". Screenshots to come later...
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I searched all over Burbank for Kelly Preston's house in the movie and could not find it. While I was looking for another location in the Hollywood area, I just happened to come across it! The house has changed a bit, particularly a new brick facade that makes it look a lot nicer than it did in the movie....
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And finally is C. Thomas Howell's house which is pretty unique looking. Like Kelly Preston's house, I searched all over Burbank looking for this. I finally got a small hint in one single frame where I could see a piece of the twin towers in Century City and by the angle of the buildings, tracked it down. It looks virtually the same, but the overgrown greenery hides a lot of the house now.... (Update, after meeting writer/director David Greenwalt, I found out he grew up in this house!)
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And one of the stars of Secret Admirer... Dee Wallace!
And writer/director David Greenwalt!
