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Shadow Lawn chosen as Daddy Warbucks mansion for Annie film
Shadow Lawn, the 130 room limestone estate on Monmouth College grounds in West Long Branch New Jersey, serves as the Warbucks mansion for Columbia Pictures film version of Annie. The 1920s palace, modeled after Versailles, features a 75 foot glass ceiling main hall a 300 seat theater and a nine hole golf course.
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New York
Columbia Pictures
John Huston
Daddy Warbucks
Rembrandt
Night Watch
Dale Hennesy
Newport
R.I
New Jersey
Hennesy
Monmouth College
West Long Branch
N.J
Versailles
Tiffany’s
Horace Trumbauer
Hubert T. Parson
F. W. Woolworth Co
Parson
Shadow Lawn
United States
Harold Gray
Aileen Quinn
Annie
Albert Finney
Carol Burnett
Miss Hannigan
Joseph Layton
Marvin March