Just outside New York City, the Douglas House has hosted over 1,800 film, TV, and commercial shoots A couple weeks ago there was a man on fire running across Marjorie Douglas?s yard.
?Don?t worry, he was laughing and having a great time!?
Marjorie, who is 90, tells me that the stuntman was doing a commercial for a well-known company. Neither he nor Marjorie seemed the least bit concerned that he was engulfed in flames.
Scenes like this are par for the course for Marjorie, who?together with her late husband Henry, who died in 2006?has been living in and running the Douglas House, a sprawling three-story home 18 miles outside of Manhattan in Rockland County. The house was specifically designed to host film and television crews, and has been doing so for 36 years. Using real homes for film shoots is nothing new. I?ve seen the outside of the cul-de-sac home in New Jersey used for Tony Soprano?s family, the now-iconic Full House Italianate Victorian in San Francisco?I even went to school with the kids whose family?s house was used for the TV show Ed. There?s something exciting about getting to see these movie homes in real life. But living in and operating one" I thought that was just about the coolest thing I?d ever heard.

The home?s multiple porches.

Mention the Douglas House to any seasoned crew member on any film set, and chances are, they have surely worked a job or two there and will comment on how lovely it...