A number of films are set in part in Cooperstown, because of the baseball
connection. Examples that come to mind include:
        "A League of Their Own" (1992) -- about the professional women baseball
teams of World War II; portions filmed in Cooperstown.
        "Cooperstown" (1993) -- the ending is supposed to be at the Baseball of
Fame in Cooperstown, but it wasn't filmed here, and the "Hall of Fame"
bears little resemblance to the real place.
        Baseball fans can surely remember others -- it seems that every year or so
we have a film crew in town!
        And, of course, James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deerslayer" is set on Lake
Otsego in what is now New York State -- there have been a number of movie
versions of that novel, from 1911 (actually filmed here) to the present.
"The Last of the Mohicans," set around Glens Falls, Lake George, and the
Adirondacks, has already been mentioned.

Hugh C. MacDougall
Secretary/Treasurer
James Fenimore Cooper Society
8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016
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> From: Bonita Walsh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: NYS films
> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 10:42 AM
>
> Let's not forget Troy - the "Hollywood of Upstate New York."
>
> Besides Ironweed, "Scent of a Woman" was filmed at Emma Willard School on
the East Side and "Age of Innocence" was filmed downtown to take advantage
of its wonderful architecture.