Missouri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Film=== Filmmaker, animator, and businessman [[Walt Disney]] spent part of his childhood in the [[Linn County, Missouri|Linn County]] town of [[Marceline, Missouri|Marceline]] before settling in Kansas City. Disney began his artistic career in Kansas City, where he founded the [[Laugh-O-Gram Studio]]. Several film versions of Mark Twain's novels ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' have been made. ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'', a musical involving the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, starred [[Judy Garland]]. Part of the 1983 [[road movie]] ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'' was shot on location in Missouri, for the Griswolds' trip from [[Chicago]] to Los Angeles. The Thanksgiving holiday film ''[[Planes, Trains, and Automobiles]]'' was partially shot at [[Lambert–St. Louis International Airport]]. ''[[White Palace (film)|White Palace]]'' was filmed in St. Louis. The award-winning 2010 film ''[[Winter's Bone]]'' was shot in the [[Ozarks]] of Missouri. ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]'' starring George Clooney was filmed in St. Louis. [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[Escape from New York]]'' was filmed in St. Louis during the early 1980s due to a large number of abandoned buildings in the city. The 1973 movie ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]'', which starred Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, was partly filmed in St. Joseph. Most of HBO's film ''[[Truman (1995 film)|Truman]]'' (1995) was filmed in Kansas City, Independence, and the surrounding area; Gary Sinise won an Emmy for his portrayal of Harry Truman in the film. ''[[Ride with the Devil (film)|Ride With the Devil]]'' (1999), starring Jewel and Tobey Maguire, was filmed in the countryside of Jackson County (where the historical events of the film actually took place). ''[[Gone Girl (film)|Gone Girl]]'', a 2014 film starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tyler Perry, was filmed in [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri|Cape Girardeau]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page