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Museum to highlight Louisiana's rich film history

A New Orleans movie buff is putting the spotlight on the memorabilia he has collected from some of the more than 400 major motion pictures, documentaries and television series that have been produced using Louisiana as the backdrop.

Jeffrey Pipes Guice's Louisiana Film Museum is starting small. When it opens Sept. 1, it will occupy a 300-square-foot room in the existing Southern Food and Beverage Museum at the Riverwalk mall in New Orleans...

... The collection now includes posters from 1951's "A Streetcar Named Desire" starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, 1958's "King Creole" starring Elvis Presley and 1969's "Easy Rider" starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

"Louisiana has contributed tremendously to the history of film," Guice said. "I can't believe somebody hasn't done this sooner."
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