The legendary Musso & Frank Grill, located in the heart of Hollywood and currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, is featured within a key scene in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. The film, from Sony Pictures’ Columbia Pictures label, opens in U.S. theaters on July 26th.
The new film marks the most recent appearance of the famous restaurant in the cinema since Musso’s first opened its doors in 1919 on Hollywood Blvd. In 1922, Buster Keaton’s movie “Cops” became the first in a long series of feature films – and later TV shows – to use the landmark venue as a location in which to film interior scenes, exterior scenes, or both.
“I feel so lucky that there’s a place like the Musso & Frank Grill – one that exists now exactly how it has always been,” said Mr. Tarantino. “It was fantastic being able to shoot at an iconic landmark that is so authentic and connected to Hollywood.”
Adds Rick Schuler, Supervising Location Manager for “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” “Musso & Frank Grill is featured in a big way in the movie. This establishment encapsulates the history of Hollywood. It was a must-have location for Quentin who sought to take us back to 1969 Hollywood – the Hollywood he grew up in and loved. While other establishments have come and gone, it was not so with Musso & Frank Grill. It has stood the test of time. The family who owns it has preserved every detail, so it was a fitting location for a major scene between Brad Pitt, Leo DiCaprio, and Al Pacino’s characters. If you truly want to see Hollywood, you’ve got to visit Musso & Frank Grill – and who knows who you might just see there.”
Below is a timeline of Musso & Frank’s most notable “guest-starring appearances” on the screen:
Cops (Starring Buster Keaton) (1922)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Ed Wood (1994)
Swingers (1996)
Sex and the City (2000)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Charlie’s Angels™: Full Throttle (2003)
Entourage (2004)
Mad Men (2007-2010)
NCIS: Los Angeles (2009 – 2019)
Greenberg (2010)
90210 (2011)
Hitchcock (2012)
Ray Donovan (2013)
Bosch (2014 – 2017)
Scandal (2014 – 2016)
Grace and Frankie (2015)
La La Land (2016)
Rules Don’t Apply (2016)
The Kominsky Method (2018)
The Dirt (2019)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
…to name a few…