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Now Playing: Phoenixville

By Victor Fiorillo

While M. Night’s ho-hum The Happening and Peter Jackson’s in-production The Lovely Bones both include Phoenixville locations, it’s not the first time that cameras have rolled in the up-and-coming Chester County borough. Throughout July, the town’s retro-fab Colonial Theatre screens four other Phoenixville-made flicks: cult-classic The Blob (1958) and significantly less classic 4-D Man (1959), both from the strange mind of Pennsylvania filmmaker Shorty Yeaworth; drama Bright Victory (1951), starring Arthur Kennedy as a blind WWII vet, with an appearance by a then-unknown Rock Hudson; and Paul Newman and real-life-wife Joanne Woodward (their son was attending the Hill School in Pottstown) as an unhappily married couple in From the Terrace (1960). Who knew? (Thecolonialtheatre.com)
Originally published in Philadelphia magazine, July 2009
 

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