The demonstrating crowd is actually outside outside New Orleans’ Morris Municipal Auditorium, 1201 St Peters Avenue, on Congo Square south of Louis Armstrong Park.Īs his fame increases, Charles plays bigger venues: ‘Indianapolis’, where he performs Unchain My Heart (which was the original title of the film) is the Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way in the Central Business District, opposite the Roosevelt Hotel and he silences a restless audience with I Can’t Stop Loving You at the Saenger Theatre, 143 North Rampart Street. The Roosevelt is also featured in 2013 caper Now You See Me.Ĭharles turns and gets back on the bus rather than play to a segregated audience in ‘Augusta, Georgia’. The stylish ‘ABC’ record office of Sam Clark ( Kurt Fuller) was found within the the Masons’ Scottish Rite Temple, now the University of New Orleans Downtown Theater, 619 Carondelet Street.Īs backing singer and mistress, Margie ( Regina King), leaves him, Charles performs Hit The Road, Jack in the Blue Room of the elegant Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel, 123 Baronne Street. Algiers Point is also featured in 2011 superhero adventure Green Lantern. Here you can find the 1930s brick-and-tile Gulf Gas Station, 446 Pelican Avenue (which closed in 1990) and Algiers Point Fire Department, Opelousas Avenue, past which the couple stroll. ‘Houston, Texas’, where Charles meets his wife-to-be Della Bea ( Kerry Washington), is the picturesque town of Algiers, across the Mississippi from New Orleans’ French Quarter. Ray location: Ray Charles's former home: Hepburn Avenue, Leimert Park, Los Angeles The Saturn, a reminder of the days when Saturn V rockets were built at the Lockheed-Michoud facility in New Orleans East, was previously seen in John Grisham adaptation The Pelican Brief. It’s in the the eccentric Saturn Bar, 3067 St Claude Avenue, Bywater, that Charles attacks his road manager and finally leaves Fulson. Hitting the road with the Lowell Fulson Band, Charles plays the round of Black nightclubs which came to be dubbed the ‘Chitlin Circuit’, including the Half Moon Bar & Grill, 1125 St Mary Street – although the interior seen is that of New Orleans’ famed Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak Street (another location used in Angel Heart) the Sandpiper Lounge, 2119 Louisiana Avenue and El Matador, 504 Esplanade Avenue (which was owned by the director’s son, but has since become the Balcony Music Club). īoth 1940s ‘Seattle’, where Charles first meets Quincy Jones, and 1950s ‘Atlanta’, are downtown Hammond, off I-55, about 50 miles to the northwest of New Orleans. The plantation is also featured in Alan Parker’s Angel Heart. It’s worth bearing in mind that many of the locations in New Orleans were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and some may still be under renovation.Ībout 50 miles southwest of the Big Easy is Thibodaux, and two miles south of the town you find the Laurel Valley Village Museum, 595 Highway 308.ĭating from 1832, the largest surviving 19th century sugar cane plantation complex in the US, with nearly 60 original structures, became ‘Jellyroll, Florida’, where the young Ray Charles ( Jamie Foxx) is traumatised (before losing his sight) by the death of his younger brother. And shots of 1950s ‘Los Angeles’ are borrowed from Carl Franklin’s excellent Devil In A Blue Dress. The filming locations for Taylor Hackford’s apparently globetrotting biopic of Ray Charles (Seattle, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome.) can be found almost entirely around the production’s base of New Orleans, thanks to the ingenious use of stock newsreel footage.
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