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* Plaquemine has been used often in Hollywood films.

In the film " Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte " the old City Hall adjacent to the Plaquemine locks is used in the sidewalk scene where Olivia DeHavilland's character Meriam confronts Mary Astor's character Jewell Mayhew.

The film's star, actress Bette Davis, had a childhood friend who moved to Plaquemine as a young adult and subsequently lived her entire lifetime on fashionable LaBauve Avenue, having come to the area with her husband who was an early Petrochemical Executive.

Bette Davis was known to occasionally visit them over the decades and was familiar with the town.

She suggested accessory scenes be filmed across the River in Plaquemine.

This entailed the film crew having to take all the filming equipment to Baton Rouge to cross the bridge as the film's insurer would not allow it to be taken back and forth on the ferry.

There was also a scene shot in Plaquemine featuring Agnes Moorehead's character Velma being laid in the yard of a home on Court Street after she is murdered by the deHavilland character.

The scene was deleted from the edited film.

While Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte was being filmed Bette Davis considered buying the home next to her childhood friend who has resided in Plaquemine for many decades by then ( mid 1960's ).

She planned to use the home as a retirement home for herself and actually negotiated on it only to have it bought while she was across the river filming at Houmas House by another family who still live there today.

BMW commercials were also filmed in the area in the 1990s.